writing by Lois

Not that ending!

All through my teaching career, when I had to set imaginative writing tasks for my students I absolutely forbade them to end their stories “… and I woke up and it was all a dream…” I thought that was the most feeble and pathetic ending… and if when I was doing exam marking I had an essay which […]

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Books by Lois

More misread titles

The Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexandre Dumas which continues the adventures of the musketeers he had previously written about in his romantic and exciting novels. However there really was a man who was imprisoned for thirty-four years whose identity was concealed… not by an iron mask but by a black velvet one. There […]

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My novels by Lois

Curious creature

If I were to write a children’s story, then this curious animal would have to feature in it; he is so charming, and looks so mournful. He seems to have little buds of horns between his ears, unless they are curls, and he seems to have a cloak around him, unless he is a funny sort […]

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Food by Lois

Irresistable

I find it very hard to resist cookware.. cookery shops are like a box of delights, a treasure cave, a place to look at and wander – and wonder, and gaze and think if only… I particularly like measuring spoons for some reason… I do only have two sets, oh and my emergency measuring spoons […]

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Books by Lois

Cover story… or not…

Just browsing in a bookshop, a favourite occupation, and I had one of those silly moments when you mis-see something. There was a display of classic novels and I was surprised by the cover picture for the novel… except I hadn’t looked carefully enough… This liaison looks extremely dangerous! ‘Pride and Prejudice’ takes on a […]

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