Bits and pieces

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

Keeping your cooker clean

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 14, 2015October 14, 2015

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 14, 2015

There was some very, very sad news in our village last night. My heart goes out to those who are so sad right now, and my thoughts are with them. Our revels are now ended Our revels are now ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, […]

Preparing for guests

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 10, 2015October 11, 2015

Bath bricks

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 8, 2015October 21, 2019

Ouse

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 6, 2015

Irony

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 5, 2015

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 2, 2015

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 […]

Michaelmas

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 1, 2015September 29, 2017

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 28, 2015

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 […]

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 27, 2015September 27, 2015

Missing the point, or summing it up!

I’ve been sharing some photos from Dismaland, Banksy’s Bemusement park in Weston-super-Mare… it really is an alternative to theme parks, and raises some important, thought provoking, and disturbing questions about our society.