Family Stories by Lois

Wish tree

Out on a walk and we came across a tree studded with coins. The tree was a Y shape and one of us said it was like a wish-bone. We all stuck coins, well, you have to don’t you, banging them in with a handy rock. I’d never seen anything like it before, but apparently […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

Romany

As a child I loved listening to the radio, especially Children’s Hour; the programme contained a wide variety of different items, drama, adventures, factual, historical… I owe that programme so much in how it educated me. One of the programmes was presented by ‘Romany’ and imagine my surprise while on holiday recently in Sandsend when […]

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Books by Lois

I must go back to the great Russians

I’m just listening to an item on the radio about a woman in her fifties who is learning Russian in order to be able to read some of the greats of Russian literature in Russian. She took us to her first language class where the students are given pictures of typical Russian items such as […]

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