Bits and pieces by Lois

What lies beyond?

Don’t you just want to go up this couple of steps, taking care not to slip or trip on the ivy, and don’t you just want to look over the gate and see what is beyond? A neglected cottage, or a pretty garden, loved and cared for, and only this gate no longer used. It […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

Buff tip moth

We saw this moth perched on our window sill as we set off to go on a visit. I looks just like a broken off bit of twig, and that is its camouflage! it is called a buff tip moth and apparently is common throughout the K. It must be very good at disguising itself […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

Transformed

A hundred years ago this tranquil water would have been a filthy toxic brew; it would have been full of the foulest rubbish, industrial waste, effluent… it would have reeked. The air would have been full of smoke; smoke from the factories and hills, smoke from the trains transporting goods to and from the docks, […]

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