The Easthope stories by Lois

Raphael’s…

In my novel ‘Night Vision’ one of the main characters is Rafi, who owns a popular restaurant in Manchester called Raphael’s… I came across this pretty little place in Bath and was reminded of my fictional restaurant. My character Rafi also has a bistro called unsurprisingly, Rafi’s Bistro!

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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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