Family Stories by Lois

Horse chestnut trees

My earliest memories of horse-chestnut trees are being pushed in my pram along Victoria avenue, graced by towering rows of them. A little older and we walked beneath them, and then on the bus we would ride along, on the top deck so we were level with the branches and leaves. We didn’t have a […]

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Food by Lois

Dutch barbecues…. mmmmm!

A huge selection of meat and all beautifully arranged! This was only one of about five trays, burgers, chops, hocks, spare ribs, sausages, chicken, kebabs, steak, fillet, prawns…  Look at the desserts…. different sorts of a Dutch speciality called vlaai which comes from the province of Limburg…. utterly delicious!

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Names, naming and words by Lois

Fonts… 2

I found this font in Utrecht Cathedral… I have no idea how old it is, but it just stood there, magnificently and almost humbly alone. I got to thinking about the word font, these days it’s most often used to mean a type script… and that surely must be a whole other post! The word […]

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