Bits and pieces by Lois

Struggling with Gaelic

I’ve been learning Gaelic for nearly five years now, and I do enjoy it and have made some great friends and we do have fun… but really I’m not getting to grips with it somehow. I confess that I don’t work on it as much as I used to, I used to do half an […]

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Food by Lois

Beautiful beans!

We have a very good greengrocer in town who often sells unusual fruit and vegetables. One of my most favourite vegetables is the broad bean and although we grew some this year we didn’t manage to grow very many, and delicious though they ere they were very small. I saw these beautiful pods in the […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

Green man 2

I wrote something in April about the Green Man, a figure of mystery and myth, whose origins are varied and very old. I mentioned that he crops up when you least expect him, and as we were driving home from buying paint to redecorate, we were stopped at some traffic lights. I noticed a little […]

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