Writing by Lois

Sober thoughts

The diary entry at the bottom of this page just says ‘Flood East Coast 31.1.53’. On January 31st 1953 there was a horrific sea surge which affected the countries along the North Sea causing huge loss of life. 2,551 people are known to have drowned, 1836 in the Netherlands, 307 in England, 28 in Belgium, 19 in Scotland and others at sea. In England 30,000 […]

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Food by Lois

Old scones…

You have the best tea rooms in the world, you bake delicious scones to serve with your cream tea… but just occasionally you must have a few left over at the end of the day… so what do you do with them? Throw them away? No, obviously not! you let them dry out and then […]

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Food by Lois

I won a prize!

I adore Rodda’s clotted cream… it is just the best! They have started to make butter… and somehow I won a prize which was some delicious, delicious butter (I confess, I tasted it just on its own, no bread, no toast, just butter! As well as the butter was a tub of clotted cream… I […]

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