Lois Elsden

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 28, 2015

My first car

I was thinking today about cars; as a family we didn’t have a car until I was about seven or eight years old – we lived in Cambridge and everyone had bikes so being without a car was not such a big deal then. The bus service was good so any longer journeys were easy […]

Revisiting Lough Neagh

Writing by LoisSeptember 28, 2015

Life’s not to short to stuff a mushroom!

Food by LoisSeptember 27, 2015April 2, 2017

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 27, 2015September 27, 2015

Missing the point, or summing it up!

I’ve been sharing some photos from Dismaland, Banksy’s Bemusement park in Weston-super-Mare… it really is an alternative to theme parks, and raises some important, thought provoking, and disturbing questions about our society.

Because I have thee still

Poems by LoisSeptember 26, 2015September 23, 2015

Dismaland (4)

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 26, 2015August 24, 2017

How to stuff a cauliflower

Writing by LoisSeptember 25, 2015September 23, 2015

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 25, 2015September 23, 2015

Dismaland (3)

Dismaland Bemusement Park which has been open since the middle of August in the derelict and neglected old swimming pool on Weston-super-Mare seafront, has been a great success. When my family first moved to Weston in the late 1960’s, the pool, built in 1937, was open and popular with tourists and residents alike. Young people […]