Lois Elsden

This is Coast TV

Writing by LoisJanuary 12, 2015September 10, 2018

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 11, 2015

Radio-Active Ærated Waters – for the treatment of gout, rheumatism and nervous afflicitons

Like many people I have several copies of Mrs Beeton; I have my own copy, acquired when I was cooking for myself, I have my mum’s well-used copy which I inherited and I have this old copy from 1912. This is the ‘updated’ version, the original was published in the 1850’s. I’m fascinated by the adverts there […]

Running up and down stairs

Family Stories by LoisJanuary 11, 2015

Shakespeare’s heroines… who were they, and who are these characters?

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 11, 2015

Living abroad

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 11, 2015

TV, radio, film and theatre by LoisJanuary 10, 2015January 10, 2015

You can’t see this too often!

The swim through Cambridge

Family Stories by LoisJanuary 10, 2015

Where does dog come from?

Names, naming and words by LoisJanuary 10, 2015

The sea at Weston

Taken by water by LoisJanuary 10, 2015

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 9, 2015

The Mercury

Our local newspaper, the Weston Mercury was established in 1843; this is the present office for our local newspaper. Apparently, it has won the Newspaper Society’s Community Newspaper of the year award several times, including 2007 and 2008.