Bits and pieces by Lois

Borwick’s and Howards’

Two things I always have in my cupboard are baking powder and bicarbonate of soda, so I was interested to come across adverts for both these products in my mum’s copy of Mrs Beeton, and very interested by the fact that the baking powder I have is Borwick’s, and that is the one mentioned in the […]

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Food by Lois

Treasure Trove

This advertisement was in my mum’s copy of Mrs Beeton; I don’t know the date of the advert, if it was very much older than the book which my mum was given for Christmas in 1950. It is striking in many ways. First of all, the idea of captain Cook arriving at a place which is […]

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The Radwinter series by Lois

Raddy and Syl

I’m delighted to tell you that Raddy and Syl, my latest novel is on the verge of appearing on Amazon… it’s published through Kindle Direct Publishing and its an e-book. It is the latest in the Radwinter series, but each is a stand-alone novel, so although there is a sequence I hope anyone could read […]

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Food by Lois

Strawberry salad

… and in today’s salad we have: mangetout peas parsley pineapple lettuce spinach tomatoes grapes cauliflower celery cucumber spinach purple sprouting broccoli yellow pepper courgette avocado and yea, strawberries!

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