Lois Elsden

Rather yummy

Food by LoisApril 16, 2016April 14, 2016

Bits and pieces by LoisApril 16, 2016August 6, 2017

Dear me – these old cookery books!

… what a world it must have been once, indeed!

Another Nottingham jar recipe

Food by LoisApril 15, 2016April 14, 2016

The farm by the wood

Places by LoisApril 15, 2016April 14, 2016

Home made butter

Writing by LoisApril 15, 2016April 15, 2016

Poems by LoisApril 14, 2016

I shared a sonnet by the Victorian poet, Henry Ellison a couple of days ago… here are his thoughts on railway engines: The Steam-Engine Off, ye Mastodons, Megalosauroi vast And monstrous, Nature’s ruder tentatives; Her clumsier essays, of which nought survives But fossil-bones–dread nightmares of the Past, Which her less skilful hand in rude moulds […]

Bits and pieces by LoisApril 14, 2016April 14, 2016

More bricks

Bricks… …shiny bricks… steep bricks… …peepbo bricks… …pipey bricks… All at Wotton House in the Surrey Hills

Strange parts

Food by LoisApril 14, 2016

Poems by LoisApril 13, 2016

Strangely Botched Endings

This must be one of the most unusual titles to a Victorian sonnet that there is! On the Strangely Botched Endings of Some of Shakespear’s Sonnets O lame and impotent conclusion! ‘Tis As some full stream should run not to the sea, But lose itself in sand, or stagnant be; Or proud steed his last […]

The Great Wen

Places by LoisApril 13, 2016