Food by Lois

Look what’s in my bag!

I went shopping today and came back with some lovely beetroot because I had seen a recipe for beef and beetroot… however when I came to read it there were rather a lot of stock cubes used, one rubbed into the beef and then two more added to the casserole… also as well as beetroot […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

Remembering

Everywhere you go in our little island there are war memorials and plaques and boards like the one above commemorating men and women who have given their lives for our country; whatever anyone thinks of war or the rights and wrongs of any situation, the people who were wounded or died suffered terribly, the tragedy […]

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Books by Lois

Earth-sea

Out in some lovely autumn sunshine the other day I saw this ploughed field and with the light on the furrows it just looked like waves on a choppy sea… and I thought, ‘earth…sea, earth… sea…’ and it reminded me of a series of books called ‘Earthsea’ by Ursula K. Le Guin’. Darker thoughts arrived […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

Out for a jolly!

These workers from a pottery and tile factory were no doubt very pleased that their boss paid for them to go on a day’s outing; I’ve no idea where they are, but no doubt they went their on a train or by a charabanc…The women are sitting together, with the men all around them, but […]

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