Bristol

Bits and pieces by LoisAugust 26, 2014

Gurt Lush

Gurt lush is a Bristolian and west country saying meaning really lush, or really great/lovely/gorgeous etc. Gurt means great in terms of size, and lush presumably comes from luscious. It’s an exclamation of approval,and usually delight. I couldn’t help but chuckle when, outside Bristol Temple Meads Station was a café in a yurt, a large Mongolian […]

Taken by water by LoisAugust 19, 2014October 8, 2017

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John Cabot is celebrated in Bristol as a hero and an extraordinary adventurer. He was a Venetian merchant who crossed the Atlantic not long after Columbus’s voyage and probably made landfall on Cape Bonavista, Newfoundland, although it may have been Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Labrador, or Maine. Cape Bonavista, His men were the first Europeans in the Americas since […]

A glimpse, a tiny glimpse into my family’s past

Writing by LoisJuly 4, 2014

Bits and pieces by LoisMay 6, 2014

The cloaked man

In Bristol the other day and we walked past this piece of sculpture that we have driven past a dozen times. It is a man on a horse with an inquisitive expression (the man’s expression, the horse just looked slightly bored and restless) There is a little plaque nearby telling us that he is the […]