Bits and pieces

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

Bits and pieces by Lois

Rowlands Macassar Oil

  I don’t suppose many people have antimacassars on their furniture any more; antimacassars were squares of fabric, sometimes embroidered, some times a border of some sort, which were placed over the back of an armchair or sofa to stop the hair dressing from men getting on the fabric of the furniture. There are plenty […]

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My first car

I was thinking today about cars; as a family we didn’t have a car until I was about seven or eight years old – we lived in Cambridge and everyone had bikes so being without a car was not such a big deal then. The bus service was good so any longer journeys were easy […]

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Dismaland (3)

Dismaland Bemusement Park which has been open since the middle of August in the derelict and neglected old swimming pool on Weston-super-Mare seafront, has been a great success. When my family first moved to Weston in the late 1960’s, the pool, built in 1937, was open and popular with tourists and residents alike. Young people […]

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