Food by Lois

Making a cake

it’s really only fun to make a cake if you’re making it for someone else; I love cake-making but I’m not really a great cake-eater and when the children are away from home and when we have no visitors there are no cakes baked in this house. I used to enjoy the children’s birthdays when […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

The missing gnomon

Was this a doorway, was it blocked up for some reason? It is on the south side of the church of St Nicholas in Uphill, the village where I live. I think the hole was for the gnomon of a sun-dial, the pointer which cast a shadow; you can see lines which would have indicated […]

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