Bits and pieces by Lois

Where have all the comic songs of yesteryear gone?

As a child I remember so many comic songs being played on the radio…or wireless as we called it then. I’m sure they were mostly of little real merit and probably not very comical  but we loved them. I can’t imagine anything more ghastly now than ‘The Laughing Policeman’ and yet it was on Children’s Favourites almost every weekend. Then here was ‘You’re A […]

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Books by Lois

The Missing

I have just finished rereading an excellent book by Andrew O’Hagan which is not just about people who are missing, but people who miss them… or not. His book ranges from stories of nineteenth century Glasgow, through his own childhood in Scotland to the dreadful murders in Gloucester by Fred and Rosemary West and the abduction of little Jamie […]

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Family Stories by Lois

Dear Miss Eddy

I recently mentioned my old Latin teacher, Miss Eddy… old because she was old, she even taught my aunty at the same school nearly thirty years previously. She was a sweet old thing and rather hopeless, no doubt a brilliant Latin scholar but not very good as a teacher… but I don’t remember any trouble […]

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