Lois Elsden

November 21st

True stories, short stories and stories for children by LoisNovember 21, 2018November 18, 2025

Ginger trifle

Food by LoisNovember 21, 2018October 28, 2018

Nano day 21

writing by LoisNovember 21, 2018November 21, 2018

Don’t peg corsets or girdles by their shoulder straps or suspenders.

writing by LoisNovember 20, 2018October 31, 2018

Beef olives on the November menu

Food by LoisNovember 20, 2018November 18, 2025

NaNo day 20

writing by LoisNovember 20, 2018November 20, 2018

Going for a swim

writing by LoisNovember 19, 2018November 19, 2019

Food by LoisNovember 19, 2018November 19, 2018

Michaelmas daisies and bronze chrysanthemums

One of my favourite old cookery books, which is anonymous so may well have been a collection of recipes amalgamated by the publishers from a number of their publications is Modern Practical Cookery. which first appeared in 1934. Towards the end of the book of over seven hundred pages is a section on suggested monthly […]