Books

Books I’m reading, books I’ve read, books I’ve lost, books, books, books, books…

Bits and pieces by Lois

War sent the clock whizzing back

To young people now the war is just history, their grandparents were born after the war, sometimes even their great-grandparents were…It truly was a different world, a very different world and here in Britain where food supplies were cut off, husbands, fathers, brothers and sons away fighting and serving abroad and at home, women out […]

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Food by Lois

Ginger cake

I love old recipes, handwritten in cookery books;  I have some of my mum’s books with odd things jotted down from her… but this is from someone I don’t know. Maybe it is the mother of a friend, maybe it is a friend of hers… or maybe she bought it in a second-hand shop or […]

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Books by Lois

Last word on Ruth’s caravan

I’ve been reading some reminiscences of camping and caravaning in a bygone age, from the posthumous collection of the writings of Ruth drew. Ruth was born in 1908, and sadly died very much before her time, but her life seems one of happiness and adventure – adventure in the widest sense! She seems such a jolly […]

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