Writing

Writing by Lois

So where do I start?

I’ve challenged myself to write about these twelve girls, classmates I think, at a state school, a private school, a boarding school? Are there any sisters, twins maybe? This is a picture I found in a magazine years and years ago; it is a photo of Japanese school girls from some time ago, before the war. Usually […]

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Home made yoghurt

We had an excess of milk… the milkman kept delivering it and I kept forgetting to cancel. We are so lucky to have a milkman, and when ever I see him hurrying from his van to drop a couple of pints on our doorstep (not literally!) I think of my early childhood. The milkman came […]

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Writing by Lois

Challenge

I cut this picture out of a magazine some years ago, fascinated by these girls’ faces. They are Japanese schoolgirls from many years ago, pre-war I guess, and although they look so solemn, no doubt they were told to be so for the camera, they have such personalities shining out of their still faces. I have […]

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