Family Stories by Lois

My grandma’s dress

My grandma died when I was very young, but I still remember her clearly. I remember she had a dress, or maybe she had several which had a pattern of tiny flowers. The material was blue, I think, or maybe black  or maybe it was very dark blue  but it was covered in tiny, tiny flowers. I have a couple of times bought clothes with […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

Typical high street

This is vry typical of British high streets now, it’s the recession, it’s the out of town supermarkets and shopping malls, it’s the cheap-jack culture, it’s depressing. One row of shops in a small seaside town, teashop, building society/financial services, charity shop, Indian restaurant, cheap goods shop, no doubt all scraping by ‘in the current financial climate.’  

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