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We have had you for about seventeen years, and moved from Oldham to Uphill; you have given us countless Christmas dinners, hundreds of cakes and loaves of bread, furnished us with thousands of meals from your two ovens, grill, gas rings and griddle… how many plates have you kept warm? Plates without number. You have seen us […]
MoreGoing through the photos on my phone I came across this: Well as it’s too late to go to Ireland for a pint, and anyway I’m not sure I could afford it right now, I might have to settle for something else… say a pint of Otter?
MorePargeting is a term for the decorating of plaster on the outside of old buildings… maybe on the inside too, I’m afraid my knowledge does not extend that far! I’m not sure how old it is, but I would guess that people have always wanted to decorate their houses, and make them look attractive, so I think it is probably as old as the plastering the outside of houses […]
MoreI tried to teach a variety of poems to my students, including this one which has some wonderfully wacky and funny descriptions, and yet so perfectly describes an icy city. I first went to Paris when I was thirteen, to stay with some family friends who had a flat there. it was not a wholly enjoyable experience, they had a young child and a nurse-maid […]
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Lois Elsden 