Lois Elsden
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It takes me back!
From about the age of fourteen I had a French pen-friend called Nicole. When I was seventeen I went and stayed with her in Normandy, and then she came back to England and stayed with my family. I had a great time in France – her family lived next to a Camembert factory where her father […]
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Oh what a funny thing!
This is a romanesco cauliflower… I had one delivered in my Riverford Organics veg box yesterday… apparently it is a fractal… or it is fractal in shape (not quite sure of this technical term!) I don’t exactly understand what it means, according to Wikipedia it is ” a natural phenomenon or a mathematical set that exhibits […]
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I saw this wreck in Portishead, Somerset, up the coast from where I live. Since earliest times, people have travelled up and down this coastline, going up the River Severn, or crossing the channel to Wales to trade, travelling further to explore, to visit, to fight… Maybe St Patrick was snatched by pirates from the […]
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What is art?
I thought this was just a collection of old folding chairs, stored in a part of a farmyard… apparently it’s art.
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