My novels by Lois

A slight delay…

  OK… I know I announced with great excitement that ‘Loving Judah’ would be coming out tomorrow… Well, there’s no easy way to announce a late arrival, even if you work for British Rail (as was!) Maybe rather than late, I should say delayed, I’m sure that’s what railway announcers do! OK, so ‘Loving Judah’ will be […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

Brandy for the parson?

To celebrate our anniversary, we went out for dinner and had an excellent meal at The Olde Thatched Cottage, in Weston-super-Mare.Greek meze, sea bass then coffee… oh and a brandy. It must be years and years and years since I had a cognac, whiskey having become my preference; however, I had glimpsed they had Hine behind the bar so I had […]

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Family Stories by Lois

21 years ago today!

It’s our anniversary! Twenty-one years ago,Bari and I married in Oldham. We had a small wedding and then five receptions! We had a small reception immediately after the ceremony in the Green Ash Hotel, Denshaw; several weeks later we had a similar celebration at The Old Hall, here in Uphill for family and friends down here. We had a  reception in Nutfield, Surrey for Bari’s family […]

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Food by Lois

Chutney, lots of chutney!

We did manage to harvest a few red tomatoes, and they were sweet and lovely, but most of the vines were heavy with tomatoes which didn’t ripen… so green tomato chutney! As usual with a new recipe I followed it exactly, but there seemed a heck of a lot of liquid, and it was still very fluid after the […]

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