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 LoisJuly 19, 2015

By the river, on the river, in the river

I grew up near a river and spent so much of my childhood on it, by it and in it. Canoeing or punting, I travelled miles and miles on the Cam, up river and downstream, along little tributaries and through pools and over locks. Later, when I had moved away I joined a rowing club which […]

Marl

Writing by LoisJuly 14, 2015

Looks like rain

Bits and pieces by LoisJuly 11, 2015

Picnic

Bits and pieces by LoisJuly 11, 2015

End of term

Bits and pieces by LoisJuly 10, 2015

Bits and pieces by LoisJuly 10, 2015August 27, 2016

One more true story… continued

I told a true story yesterday, with a name change, of course! It was about a girl who visited an outdoor art exhibition when she was sixteen, and saw a painting of silver birch trees in autumn, painted by a young man a few years older than her, who reminded her of Steve McQueen. She […]

Grey squirrels… an unfortunate import

Bits and pieces by LoisJuly 9, 2015

Bits and pieces by LoisJuly 5, 2015

Sitting in the sun…

There is nothing nicer than being with people you love and sitting in the sun by water. This glorious afternoon was in Boston a couple of weeks ago and it was a perfect day. The sun was glorious but not too hot or oppressive; there were loads of interesting and happy people about, families, friends […]