Family Stories by Lois

Solo holiday

Miss Solo When we go away on holiday, so does our pet rabbit, Solo. We are going to the Netherlands, which is maybe where her bunny kin came from as she is Netherland dwarf. Extremely small and extremely feisty, getting into her bunny transport is a battle of wits and determination. She stays with some lovely people who are bunny […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

Flowers

 I love flowers, growing free and wild, cultivated, arranged… I’m hopeless at arranging it is such a skill, an art, and I admire those who are experts! This arrangement looks so simple, and yet so effective.

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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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