Names, naming and words by Lois

Yurt Lush in the sunshine…

If you’re not familiar with Bristol and west country slang you might not find the name of this cafe and bar in a tent amusing… and it probably won’t be amusing! explain it, but at least you furriners might understand! A yurt is a Mongolian tent… actually it is the mobile home of many different […]

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Food by Lois

What to do?

I’ve never had a dragon fruit before – it looks magnificent but to be honest the taste was a little bland… Perhaps I ate it in the wrong way, just spooned from its skin… maybe there is something else I could have done…. Wouldn’t it make spectacular ice-cream!!!

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Bits and pieces by Lois

Upstairs… or downstairs?

I saw this ugly metal fire-escape bolted onto the side of what might have been an elegant nineteenth century building except for the metal boxes bolted to the side which I guess are something to do with air conditioning or central heating or ducts for something or another… Oh and there are grills over the windows […]

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