Lois Elsden

Soap making

Bits and pieces by LoisFebruary 17, 2018February 17, 2018

Writing about your family history (v) … where were they? And what did they do there?

Family Stories by LoisFebruary 17, 2018

Out of the box…

Writing by LoisFebruary 17, 2018September 11, 2018

Leopard cake and cottage pudding

Writing by LoisFebruary 16, 2018

Surveying or surveilling

Books by LoisFebruary 16, 2018February 16, 2018

Writing about your family history (iv) … telling the truth? Or not?

Writing by LoisFebruary 16, 2018February 17, 2018

Writing by LoisFebruary 15, 2018

This poem by Walter Turner is beautiful but mysterious. Tantalus was a mythological Greek figure, a very unpleasant character who after various misdeeds was punished by standing in a pool of water with food just out of reach, and every time he bent to drink the water flowed away… He was punished in this way […]

Portable Soup

Food by LoisFebruary 15, 2018September 13, 2018

Writing about your family history (iii) … the journeys they made…

Family Stories by LoisFebruary 15, 2018September 15, 2018

Bits and pieces by LoisFebruary 14, 2018February 15, 2018

Household recipes

These days when we see something in a newspaper or magazine headed ‘recipes’, we expect instructions on how to make certain dishes, or cakes, or pastries, something baked, or casseroled, something for lunch or dinner, or some treat for teatime. A hundred years ago recipes were for other products… look at the selection in a […]