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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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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