Cambridge

On Revisiting Cambridge

Family Stories by LoisMay 17, 2016May 17, 2016

We went to Yale

Places by LoisJuly 18, 2015July 18, 2015

Bits and pieces by LoisJuly 2, 2015September 15, 2018

In my genealogical novels about the family history of the Radwinter family, the main character Thomas researches the lives of his forebears; here are no ‘exciting’ discoveries of links to royalty or famous people, just ordinary lives of ordinary people – which is the same for most of us! However, Thomas discovers that several of […]

By the river and with the river and on the river and in the river

Family Stories by LoisJune 29, 2015June 29, 2015

Punt-pole

Names, naming and words by LoisMay 2, 2015

Spring is well and truly here

Bits and pieces by LoisApril 22, 2015

Meat Research Institute

Family Stories by LoisApril 14, 2015

Pubs and and pints... beer, wine and spirits by LoisMarch 14, 2015

The New Spring

My dad, if not exactly born in a pub, was brought up in a pub, the Portland Arms Cambridge. His grandparents, also had a pub, the Fitzroy Arms in Fitzroy Street, Cambridge, but when we were children his regular pub was the New Spring, down near the river. It was further away than the Portland, […]