Lois Elsden

The way that you say it

TV, radio, film and theatre by LoisJuly 28, 2014

Books by LoisJuly 28, 2014

I am rather taken with unexpected doors, doorways, gates, stairs leading nowhere, bricked up entrances… and this one; it’s a door in a wall that I walk past several times a week in our village. The wall is neat and well-maintained, but it is too high to see the house beyond it. I’m sure there must […]

Within easy reach?

Bits and pieces by LoisJuly 28, 2014

I’d love to keep chickens…

Writing by LoisJuly 28, 2014

There comes the dream

Poems by LoisJuly 27, 2014

Bits and pieces by LoisJuly 27, 2014

Sunny Knightshayes

Knightshayes Court near Tiverton in North Devon is a stately home under the ownership of the National Trust. There is a wonderful and very interesting house, a shop full of delights, a tearoom, and beautiful gardens. We spent our afternoon having a picnic in the parkland, and then wandered round the walled garden.

Bits and pieces by LoisJuly 27, 2014

Friendly geese

Geese have a reputation for being fierce and aggressive, in fact they have been used as watch ‘dogs’ because they can be so fierce and vicious! This friendly foursome came rushing across their paddock to the fence to chat to us, and they had a fine old cackle. The brown ones had gorgeous blue eyes, […]

Pubs and and pints... beer, wine and spirits by LoisJuly 27, 2014

Pubs my dad might have known

My dad was brought up in Cambridge and from the age of four until he left home to get married he lived in a pub with his parents and brothers and sisters. The pub was the Portland Arms, and in a previous life it had been The Scales Hotel, named after the brewing family. I’ve […]