Books

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

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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But what does it mean?

I remember when I was doing French exams and we had the passages to translate from one language to the other… I always did better on the French to English which I guess most people in my class did… But I always did much, much better. I think it might have been – and I […]

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