Food by Lois

Pain de sucre chicory

We had a monster arrive in our organic veg box this week; it looked like a massive head of Chinese leaves… except it wasn’t, the leaves were too fragile, then I thought it might be a weird cabbage or lettuce… but it wasn’t… I gave up and looked at the notes that Riverford organics always […]

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Family Stories by Lois

Party!

My sister and I looking very smart in our beautiful dresses and velvet boleros made by our mum. Mine was white with red ribbon running through the satin, and my bolero was red; my sister’s was blue, and I always secretly wished I had the blue one but I pretended red was my favourite colour. We are […]

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Family Stories by Lois

How many years ago?

We have just cooked spaghetti Bolognese, and are serving it into bowls… there would have been maybe three or four other people here but we were doing the cooking on a tiny little Baby Belling, a midget electric cooker. This was my first year away from home at Manchester Polytechnic.

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