Bits and pieces by Lois

Iceland mystery

I visited Iceland a couple of years ago and I’m so excited that I’m going again in November. I read a lot of novels set in Iceland, including those by Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir and Michael Ridpath, and since one in ten Icelandic people are published authors, I have a lot more to discover and enjoy! […]

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Places by Lois

Ducks on the rhyne

A rhyne (pronounced ‘reen’) in Somerset is a ditch, or water course which has been dug as a drainage channel, and you find them all across the south-west of England and south Wales. I’d never come across the word until we moved to the west country in the 1960’s,even though we came from a similar […]

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