Lois Elsden

What’s the recipe today, Jim?

Bits and pieces by LoisMarch 4, 2018March 5, 2018

Writing by LoisMarch 4, 2018

I belong to two great book clubs – with one of them I went to the Weston-super-Mare Literary Festival quiz, last week which was great fun, and the other I met up with this afternoon. We were discussing ‘The Buried Giant‘ by Kazuo Ishiguro. I had never read anything else by him, and knew nothing at […]

Sharing enchantment

Music... and my favourite gigs by LoisMarch 4, 2018

Good, cheap, and wholesome bread

Food by LoisMarch 3, 2018

Beyond Hope – at Widmouth Quay

The Radwinter series by LoisMarch 3, 2018September 14, 2018

Listen to the Lemon Sharks!

Music... and my favourite gigs by LoisMarch 3, 2018March 3, 2018

Pubs and and pints... beer, wine and spirits by LoisMarch 2, 2018

Pub topics tonight

We’ve been in the grip of ‘the beast from the east’ and ‘storm Emma’, so unusually, as I have mentioned, it has been very snowy. However, having felt a bit trapped by the elements we decided to venture forth and went along to the Dolphin. There was a bit of a sharp wind but the […]

Family Stories by LoisMarch 2, 2018September 11, 2018

I wonder who they were?

I’ve been trying to make a list of my forebears… not as easy as I thought when I began it. OK, four grandparents, three of whom I remember, eight g-grandparents, two of whom I knew when I was a child, my dad’s maternal grandparents. He so often spoke of his father’s parents I feel a […]