Lois Elsden
WRITER
One more week…
Exciting things are happening next week! I hope to have finished editing my next book, Flipside and have it published… but I may have to delay that a little as I want it to be the best I can possibly make it. My dear friend Elly and her daughter Corine are visiting us on the […]
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Last word on nightjar
There was a crossword clue today “dialect word for nightjar”; we couldn’t think of anything at all and looked it up and found several suggestions (none of which fitted) whip-poor-will, whip o’will. nighthawk, puck … and goatsucker…. what? Goatsucker? Really? “Doe niet zo belachelijk!!” Goatsucker Old goatherds swear how all night long they hear The […]
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Hot Fuzz… pics from the real Sandford!!
Yes, there really is such a village as Sandford, but it is in Somerset, not Gloucestershire!
MoreWhere are the birds?
We moved down her initially many years ago when I was eighteen; I let and moved north, but eleven years ago we moved back. I remember when we lived here before, in the evening there would be magnificent wheeling clouds of starlings every evening as they few off together to roost. We didn’t see many […]
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