Bits and pieces by Lois

Silent Cargo

As we walked around Salford Quays, one lovely summer evening, we saw several urban sculptures made from materials which may have been part of the area when it was a noisy dirty industrial place. We saw these wheels, along with some barrels, boxes, pipes, bits of chain, blacksmith’s tools and materials including an anvil and horseshoes (horses […]

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Places by Lois

The old vicarage

If you were making a film and wanted to find an old house which could be the vicarage in your film, this one would be ideal. So attractive, and tucked away at the end of a broad drive, it looks just the right place for a variety of different films, romance, period, crime, drama… In […]

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Music... and my favourite gigs by Lois

Stuck in the middle

The TV was on and it was a rerun of ‘Top of the Pops’ and there was Gerry Rafferty singing, ‘Stuck in the Middle With You’ with his band Stealers Wheel. I have heard him singing that song so often, and even more often ‘Baker Street’ with that amazing saxophone riff, but I have never […]

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