Lois Elsden

Blow the wind

Music... and my favourite gigs by LoisJanuary 9, 2015

The Radwinter series by LoisJanuary 9, 2015September 15, 2018

Ophelia, Desdemona, Juliet and… Virgilia?

I was trying to find a name for two minor characters in my novel; I don’t think they will make any more than a fleeting appearance, but even so, I want to them to have the right sort of name, and a name which would be ‘normal’ for when they were born. It would […]

Saxish homework

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 8, 2015

Townlands, field names and featuures

Places by LoisJanuary 8, 2015September 11, 2018

Family Stories by LoisJanuary 8, 2015

Our house… 2005…

This is our house, but taken a few years ago; now the pale blue wall is dark blue and so is the double gate and all the bushes and trees have grown. On the left you can see the red leaves of the smoke bush… bush??? It’s a mighty tree now, we have to keep […]

Passion cake

Food by LoisJanuary 8, 2015

Silent Witness

TV, radio, film and theatre by LoisJanuary 7, 2015

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 7, 2015

Inspiration

When I was teaching in my last post, because it was a very small unit with only three teachers and twenty students, we all had to teach subjects other than our first one. So, as well as teaching English, I had to teach Citizenship and History… despite that there were still odd slots on the timetable […]

Watching what I eat

Food by LoisJanuary 7, 2015

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 7, 2015January 7, 2015

Old wives’ tales…

I wonder if the old wives whose tales we so often refer to were an actual group of old wives who set down in tablets of stone (or a knitting pattern) their tales which have since been handed down whenever any few people get together and mention the weather, ailments, health, diet, births, marriages, deaths… […]