Writing by Lois

Family Holiday 2015, Kent day 4

We visited Margate on our jaunts around Kent; we went to see the new Turner Contemporary art gallery, and while strolling in the sunshine we came came across this sad memorial to nine brave men who ventured out in a lugger into wild seas on January 9th, 1857 to go to the aid of an […]

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Names, naming and words by Lois

Trunk call

I don’t suppose there is any such thing as a trunk call these days, a trunk call was a long distance telephone call, as opposed to a local one. There must be some joke about elephants and trunk calls… an elephant’s trunk is actually his nose and upper lip… and no doubt there are jokes […]

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