Bits and pieces by Lois

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 […]

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Places by Lois

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. […]

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Food by Lois

A delicious lunch with a friend

It’s always nice to meet my friend Andrew who I have known since I was eighteen. We spent an afternoon together recently and as we met just before lunch, having something to eat together seemed the ideal thing to do. We wandered from the station through Manchester, a city which I know well, but Andrew […]

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