Lois Elsden

Traffic light faces

The Easthope stories by LoisAugust 10, 2016September 14, 2018

Silbury… four and a half thousand years later and we still don’t know why it’s there

Archaeology and geology by LoisAugust 10, 2016August 10, 2016

Endings…

The Easthope stories by LoisAugust 9, 2016September 14, 2018

Reading my own writing

Bits and pieces by LoisAugust 9, 2016

Poems by LoisAugust 8, 2016

The Irish poet Thomas Caulfield Irwin, born in 1823, is largely forgotten. He was born in Warrenpoint in County Down, Ireland, the son of a doctor; his family were very wealthy and it seems he was one of those young gentlemen who completed their education by travelling on the continent with a private tutor, and he even went […]

Books by LoisAugust 8, 2016

Salts of lemon is what you need

I’ve been sharing some helpful household hints… helpful that is if you were in the Congo in the 1940’s. I’m not sure many modern cookery and recipe books would contain helpful ways to manage your home; in ‘The Congo Cookery Book’, by Clare E. Willet, if you look in the index, between Sweets (Candy) and […]