Names, naming and words by Lois

Brass monkeys….

The colloquial phrase about the temperature being cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey is supposed to allude to  the brass tray which held canon balls and which when very cold would contract so the cannon balls would roll off it… is apparently just an urban myth! No!!! Just this weekend we […]

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Books by Lois

Bloomsbury

In 1066 it had vineyards and pigs, in 1759 the British Museum opened there, but for many people Bloomsbury’s main association is with the Bloomsbury group of writers and artists, including the Woolfs, John Maynard Keynes, E.M. Forster, Lyttonn Strachey, the Bells and the Garnets. Fittingly, perhaps, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes were married in […]

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