Lois Elsden

German word of the day… all 63 letters of it!

Names, naming and words by LoisJune 12, 2013April 16, 2015

Bits and pieces by LoisJune 12, 2013May 31, 2013

Tuincentrum… that’s a garden centre!

The Dutch don’t only grow beautiful tulips… of course they don’t, they are world-renowned for beautiful plants of all sorts…. and here is a selection from a garden centre we visited while staying in the Netherlands.

Tupper’s total!

Bits and pieces by LoisJune 11, 2013October 19, 2014

No complaints about names, please!

Names, naming and words by LoisJune 11, 2013September 13, 2018

Bits and pieces by LoisJune 11, 2013June 3, 2013

Maybugs make me jump!

One of the things about lovely summer evenings when I’m upstairs working with the window open, I meet all sorts of wild life. Pretty moths, creepy daddy-long-legs (although they don’t often fly as high as my window) naughty mosquitoes… it’s a regular zoo in the computer room. Every so often there is a bang on […]

Lichen by LoisJune 11, 2013May 31, 2013

Lichen the Netherlands!

These two lichens were not defeated by mere paint!Maybe this is a fungus not a lichen…

An antique land

Poems by LoisJune 10, 2013June 19, 2013

Places by LoisJune 10, 2013June 4, 2013

New Street Station, Birmingham

I really like the city of Birmingham, and even though I was leaving it after a wonderful weekend, I liked being in the heart of the place on the platform of the new New Street Station. The station was first built sometime between the 1840’s and 50’s to replace earlier stations which had served the town. […]