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

Ferry…

The ferry across the Solent between Portsmouth and Gosport only takes four minutes, but even so, those four minutes are magical – being on a ferry and crossing from one place to another. Ferry men have always had a mythological status; Charon who took the dead across Styx to Hades figures is referred to even […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

Open the door

This metal door is set into a farm wall, just outside the farmhouse. It’s about  eighteen inches to two foot wide and about twelve inches tall.  It’s not big enough for a farmer to leave produce in to be picked up by someone, far too small for milk churns, and there’s not much room for […]

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Comings and goings

I dare say if I was a commuter who had to travel to work by train every day, and was confounded by delays and track repairs and broken trains I would not feel quite so enamoured by train travel. However, I’m fortunate and when I’m travelling it is always to do something pleasant, go to a […]

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