Bits and pieces by Lois

Open the door

This metal door is set into a farm wall, just outside the farmhouse. It’s about  eighteen inches to two foot wide and about twelve inches tall.  It’s not big enough for a farmer to leave produce in to be picked up by someone, far too small for milk churns, and there’s not much room for […]

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Family Stories by Lois

Lois

My cousin very generously gave me this photograph of my great-grandmother Lois. I have no idea when it was taken,. although I do know who framed the photograph; Arthur Staples, a practical carver, gilder and picture frame maker, who had his business at 201 High Road, Kilburn, NW (now a Lebanese restaurant) two doors from Willesden […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

Comings and goings

I dare say if I was a commuter who had to travel to work by train every day, and was confounded by delays and track repairs and broken trains I would not feel quite so enamoured by train travel. However, I’m fortunate and when I’m travelling it is always to do something pleasant, go to a […]

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Places by Lois

The Spinnaker Tower

Visiting Portsmouth over the weekend we sat beneath the Spinnaker Tower and had coffee. It certainly is a remarkable construction, completed in 2005, having been taken a year to plan and four to build. It is 560 feet high and can be seen from miles and miles away. From the top of it (apparently, I […]

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