Lois Elsden
WRITER
Do people still use milk jugs and butter dishes?
My family laugh at me in a gentle way when I insist on having the milk in a milk jug, especially when it is on the table. Milk bottle on the table? That will never do! Similarly I like to have butter unwrapped from its paper and put in a butter dish, with a separate butter knife. In the old days the milkman would come […]
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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 […]
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