Lois Elsden

A couple of pubs… but no pints!

Pubs and and pints... beer, wine and spirits by LoisSeptember 17, 2012September 7, 2012

Books by LoisSeptember 16, 2012September 24, 2013

The river… by it and with it and on it and in it…

I posted last week about the awful dangers water can pose, rivers and lakes, lochs and broads, oceans and seas. But water can also give great pleasure if treated with respect. Afavourite book of mine is “Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Graham “The River,” corrected the Rat. “And you really live by the river? What […]

A Sparshott journey

Family Stories by LoisSeptember 15, 2012September 3, 2012

Food by LoisSeptember 14, 2012September 1, 2012

The great debate

When I was teaching as part of the English syllabus, students had to debate and discuss. I tried to choose topics which they would find interesting and engaging and have some opinion on. I tried all the usual topics, capital punishment, abortion, student grants, religion… I tried local issues, what should happen to the Tropicana, should Weston have a skate-park, should they build the Severn barrage… I tried […]

Olives… in Uphill

Food by LoisSeptember 13, 2012September 1, 2012

Sand

Places by LoisSeptember 13, 2012October 8, 2017

A nosegay

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 12, 2012June 6, 2013

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 12, 2012

The best dog in the world!

Family Stories by LoisSeptember 11, 2012September 24, 2013

This time tomorrow…

My children are getting ready to go off to university, my son for his second year at Salford University, my daughter for her first year in… Ulster! We’ll be flying with her across the Irish Sea to Belfast tomorrow, then staying for a few days at our beloved Portballintrae before she starts at the Coleraine […]

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 10, 2012

My friend Andrew Simpson is in a film!

I posted recently about my friend Andrew’s exhibition; he wrote the text and his associate Peter Topping painted the pictures for an on-street display about the small Manchester town of Chorlton-cum-Hardy. http://loiselden.com/2012/09/06/presenting-the-history-of-one-small-town/ The company of McCarthey and Stone are developing a site in Chorlton and instead of having boring, tatty hoardings round the building site, they have erected smart green boards for […]