Lois Elsden

The Bridge… Broen … Bron

TV, radio, film and theatre by LoisApril 1, 2015

Family Stories by LoisMarch 31, 2015

A cousin asked me to look out some photos for her… I got slightly side-tracked as I always do when I’m looking at old pictures. I know we are approaching Easter, and these photos are of a Christmas party, but it just gave me such a sense of fun, and love for my family to see […]

Bushmills revisited

Pubs and and pints... beer, wine and spirits by LoisMarch 31, 2015September 13, 2018

Typewriters

Writing by LoisMarch 31, 2015September 15, 2018

Rapty

Names, naming and words by LoisMarch 31, 2015

TV, radio, film and theatre by LoisMarch 30, 2015

Movies

As a kid we used to go to the movies quite a lot – except we would be going to the flicks, not the movies! I did occasionally go to the Saturday morning children’s films, but not very often. I really began to go regularly when I went to Manchester, to the Poly and then most […]

Names, naming and words by LoisMarch 30, 2015March 30, 2015

An escargatoire of snails

I wonder if other languages have as many collective nouns as English does – and sometimes there are several collective nouns for each group of whatever it is. For example what I might have called a clump of snails when I saw this pile of molluscs in the car park is actually an escargatoire of snails… […]