Lois Elsden

Cheddar… gorgeous cheese!

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 1, 2012

This lovely young woman was singing, sometimes accompanied by a bass player and a saxophonist who doubled on a cajon at Love’s Café Restaurant in Weston-super-Mare on Thursday night, 30th August. She had a tremendous voice, warm and melodic, and played her instruments well… but who was she? I don’t know!

Derrick’s Tea Room… probably the best in the world!!

Bits and pieces by LoisAugust 31, 2012

Plus ça change.. plus celles sont les même amies!!

writing by LoisAugust 31, 2012September 24, 2013

Family Stories by LoisAugust 30, 2012

Reuben and Maudie

I haven’t written much about my dad Donald’s side of the family, here are my grandparents.

writing by LoisAugust 30, 2012September 13, 2018

Telling the tale… then writing it down

Before I could write, I told stories, first to myself then to my sister; when I became a teacher, story telling became an intrinsic and vital part of my way of delivering the goods. Story telling in my teaching wasn’t just going through something in a text book, I would recount tales of my […]

Bampton in Devon… so pretty

Places by LoisAugust 29, 2012October 9, 2017

Muffin failure

Food by LoisAugust 29, 2012August 29, 2012

writing by LoisAugust 28, 2012September 10, 2018

Camel Wood

Camel Wood is an amalgam of many woods and woodlands and forests I’ve walked through. It is a large area of old woodland which exists only in my imagination but is so vivid and believable that it is easy to describe it when I write. Those of you who have read my novel ‘The Stalking of Rosa Czekov’ will know what […]

Bits and pieces by LoisAugust 28, 2012August 28, 2012

The sea, the sea…

Water is my natural element, I think I could swim before I could walk, and as a child I spent hours and hours in swimming pools, in, on and by the river, and in the sea whenever I could. I posted earlier about the tragedy of the little boy who fell into the sea near us here in Somerset, and now […]