Writing by Lois

Curds and whey?

Everyone knows the nursery rhyme about Little Miss Muffet, I wonder if her curds and whey were plain, or if they were flavoured with something,  sweetened with honey perhaps? I have a recipe which uses rosewater which makes it sound like a rather delicious yoghurt. No-one really knows the origin of the rhyme, it may […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

House for sale

We have no immediate plans to move house; we have lived here for nearly fourteen years and like our house, and the village we live in very much. However every so often I see a property for sale and have a little dream about buying it… but that’s all it is a dream. If we did […]

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