Lois Elsden

Old words of the day

Names, naming and words by LoisMarch 27, 2013April 16, 2015

Food by LoisMarch 26, 2013

Cream tea with whortleberry jam

Whortleberries, also known as whimberries, blaeberries, whinberries… delcious little mouthfuls of British blueberries

Causing trouble in an empty house

Bits and pieces by LoisMarch 26, 2013

I like going to the dentist

Bits and pieces by LoisMarch 26, 2013March 26, 2013

Poems by LoisMarch 26, 2013

I woke up early this morning and my goodness, there was a blinding light, a golden ray pouring in through the window. What on earth can it have been? What is the strange phenomena… could it be… really… the sun?? How about a little John Donne? The Sun Rising Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows and […]

Holiday baking (forget calory counting!)

Family Stories by LoisMarch 25, 2013March 25, 2013

Goodbye, Time Team… I shall miss you

Archaeology and geology by LoisMarch 25, 2013June 19, 2013

More celebrity silliness with names…

Names, naming and words by LoisMarch 25, 2013September 11, 2018

Writing by LoisMarch 25, 2013March 25, 2013

Forcing it…

Nothing is easier or more enjoyable than writing when I’m bursting full of a story, words racing across the page catching up with the events happening in my imagination, describing the characters and what they’re doing and thinking, or recording the conversations they’re having with each other, painting in the background, sketchily at first maybe, even though it’s […]

Music... and my favourite gigs by LoisMarch 24, 2013March 24, 2013

What a handsome dude!

I would never be any good as a photo journalist… I’m not good enough at looking through a lens, I want to be looking with my eyes all the time. However, just sometimes, I’ve managed to see something, or in this case, someone, and get my camera to my eye just in time. We were […]