Food by Lois

Salad

The word ‘salad is about six hundred years old, and if you’re someone who learnt Latin at school, you might already know or realise that it comes from Latin, ‘sal’ meaning salt, and via various different transformations to meaning something which was salted, and probably vegetables which were dressed or maybe preserved like this. My husband hates […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

Snatched

Travelling back from a lovely day spent with lovely friends, the sun was dropping down below the horizon; my camera had given up working but I used my phone to snatch this picture with not great hopes of how it would look… Because I had my phone pressed against the window, of course there was […]

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