Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Busking in Bath

Bits and pieces by LoisNovember 15, 2015November 15, 2015

Bits and pieces by LoisNovember 14, 2015

More from Mrs Robb and her memoir and recipe book, Recipes From the Farm Kitchen; here she describes how young people – and I would guess the time she is writing about they would have been as young as twelve, would find service on farms: When a farm or kitchen hand was required it was a simple […]

Wet and windy Weston carnival

Bits and pieces by LoisNovember 13, 2015November 13, 2015

Jordan’s Mill

Bits and pieces by LoisNovember 13, 2015November 13, 2015

Café scene

Bits and pieces by LoisNovember 12, 2015

Fungi and fungi

Bits and pieces by LoisNovember 9, 2015November 9, 2015

Bits and pieces by LoisNovember 5, 2015

Bonfire Night… again…

As it’s November 5th, Bonfire Night, I think I’ll share something I wrote last year… We don’t have fireworks any more, our children have left home, but we see plenty from our windows! As a child we had a long enough garden to have a bonfire in the empty vegetable patch; the lady who owned our […]

Bits and pieces by LoisNovember 3, 2015

Mr Miller

Max Miller was born in 1894 in Brighton and he was one of the big names in variety theatre and music hall, but he was very much of his time, and by the time he died when he was sixty-eight, already that style of comedy was waning… or was it? There are aspects of comedy […]