Bits and pieces by Lois

The medieval mind

A pig playing what looks like a peculiar sort of bagpipe, two other pigs clapping their trotters, no doubt in time to the music… This is not far removed from Hieronymous Bosche! It’s wonderful and I found it on a misericord in Rippon Cathedral

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Books by Lois

I wish I liked Virginia Woolf

I studied ‘To the Lighthouse’ for A-level many years ago; in those days we had to read round the set texts so I had to read other books by Virginia Woolf including ‘Mrs Dalloway’… oh how I struggled! It is obviously something about me as a reader, but I just couldn’t feel anything for any of the […]

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Writing by Lois

Bubbling… and erupting

I am well-known for being spectacularly absent-minded and forgetful… always have been. When we were children, or even teenagers, my sister Andy, two years younger than me always had the tickets, the money  the passports or whatever else we needed because I would be sure to lose/forget/misplace them. At the same time I am renowned among family and […]

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