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 LoisJanuary 7, 2015January 7, 2015

Old wives’ tales…

I wonder if the old wives whose tales we so often refer to were an actual group of old wives who set down in tablets of stone (or a knitting pattern) their tales which have since been handed down whenever any few people get together and mention the weather, ailments, health, diet, births, marriages, deaths… […]

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 5, 2015

Spring seems far away

Today has been a gloomy winter’s day, not helped by sad news of an elderly relative who has left this world. It seems a long wait for brighter days and lighter skies and evenings drawing out… but spring will come.

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 3, 2015

Picture in oil

I roasted some beetroot in olive oil… art emerged from the oven!

Somerset mummers

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 3, 2015

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 3, 2015October 8, 2017

Reflections

There is something so fascinating about reflections anywhere but natural reflections in water are particularly magical; it is easy to imagine people in distant times being entranced and maybe a little awed by the strange phenomena as they would have seen it. Maybe the story most well-known to us is the story of Narcissus, who […]