Lois Elsden

Writing by LoisDecember 30, 2014

2014… the middle passage

May… visiting our very dear friends in the beautiful Netherlands, and… …paying our tribute to the dead of WW1 on the battlefields of the Somme. In June we were in Northern Ireland… … and July we were in Salford… for an important event… In August we went to visit the Polish soldiers memorial in Portsmouth… […]

Weaving

Family Stories by LoisDecember 30, 2014September 15, 2018

Down the other end

Writing by LoisDecember 29, 2014

New pudding recipe… the result

Food by LoisDecember 29, 2014

Olive and Mrs Hart

Family Stories by LoisDecember 29, 2014

2014, part 1

January floods, poor Somerset February, I publish ‘Radwinter’, my first genealogical mystery Tom the bear’s house, visiting Killerton in March Family holiday in Norfolk in April!

Names, naming and words by LoisDecember 28, 2014December 29, 2014

Baaa!

I was talking about sheep’s cheese, and other sheepy things, including the lovely wool that Icelandic sheep have; I wished I had bought some while I was there, we saw some great balls of wool in a shop in Reykjavik, and I could have had a go at knitting something… A friend showed us some holiday photos which […]

Places by LoisDecember 28, 2014

Old and older, or not so old and oldish

I’ve taken a few photos of old things juxtaposed against modern… here we have an old crane beside an old ship… except the ship isn’t as old as the crane… it is a 1997 replica of the Matthew, in which John Cabot sailed to Newfoundland, five hundred years ago. The crane, one of four was […]