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Books for young people | Lois Elsden
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Skip to main content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: Books for young people. Books I have written to encourage reluctant readers and promote creative writing skills. I could dwell among that silent people. May 26, 2016. A couple of days ago I shared a post from another blogger, titled Imagined Spaces, Forests and the Fairytale World which discussed the role of the forest in ‘fairy’ stories and other myths. I love the Forest;–I could dwell among. In nobly–ordered form, as to my view. And ta...
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Dancing in the road | Lois Elsden
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Skip to main content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: Dancing in the road. July 20, 2015. When I first started writing, and I mean writing properly as opposed to writing childhood fantasies and adventure stories based on books and comics I’d read, all my work was based on personal experience and observation and imagination. The next was set in Manchester where I had lived for a long time, and much of the action (and there was action in this one, rather than people talking and arguing with e...
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Beer wine and spirits | Lois Elsden
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Skip to main content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: Beer wine and spirits. So… in the pub tonight…. July 31, 2016. We usually go down to the pub on a Sunday night to catch up with our two friends, the two T’s, Tim and Trevor; Trevor we have known for many years and is a surrogate granddad to our children, Tim we have known since we moved back down here, fifteen years ago. There was someone else at the bar, but I didn’t see who he was. Conversation with Tim and Trev:. The cost of insurance.
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Family holiday 2013, up in Sandsend! | Lois Elsden
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Skip to main content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: Family holiday 2013, up in Sandsend! Family holiday, Sandsend, the last day… and it has to be fish and chips! June 24, 2013. Ish and chips. and mushy peas… this must be the most traditional of English dishes and when cooked properly with the freshest of fish, preferably eaten outside, it is the most delicious meal imaginable! Posted in Family holiday 2013, up in Sandsend! And tagged fish and chips. Magpie Fish and Chip Shop. June 22, 2013.
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Buddhism | Lois Elsden
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Skip to main content. Skip to secondary content. Urban retreat, take 2, day 1. November 10, 2013. This year the retreat is: “ Blazing Like The Sun : how can our hearts be more overflowing with kindness, compassion, confidence, and love of life? How can we find the freedom of heart that is loving-kindness? 8221; I am using a fellow blogger’s beautiful guide to a meditation on love today:. Http:/ grevilleacorner.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/meditation-on-love/. November 8, 2013. Blazing Like The Sun. One in pa...
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A Strong Hand From Above | Lois Elsden
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Skip to main content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: A Strong Hand From Above. When Mal Starling returns to her family home on the death of her beloved step-father, she little imagines that she is putting her life at risk. Her family have no idea of Mal’s secret, which, when revealed changes everything. Light reading… light writing? November 20, 2015. I even threw away some early novels…. 8220;The Man in the Sun”… in a strange way, I’m quite fond of the memory of this ...October 5, 2014.
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Family holiday 2013, down in Devon! | Lois Elsden
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Skip to main content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: Family holiday 2013, down in Devon! Each year my cousins and I take our families on holiday together. This year 22 of us were in deepest Devon, staying in an enormous old farmhouse near Bampton. April 13, 2013. Posted in Family holiday 2013, down in Devon! And tagged rainbow trout. Family holiday… home we go! April 12, 2013. Yesterday was our last full day of our family holiday for this year, and we spent it in Westward Ho! It weighed we...
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Family museum | Lois Elsden
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Skip to main content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: Family museum. Family museum… the tomato knife. August 10, 2015. I had an idea of writing about items I remember from my childhood – and from other times, items which I no longer have but which evoke strong memories as I think about them; memories of those items being used, what they did, when they were used and how, and who was using them. I don’t suppose you can buy tomato knives any more…. Posted in Family museum. Beer wine and spirits.
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Family Stories | Lois Elsden
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Skip to main content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: Family Stories. All families have stories; some stories are almost myths… did my ancestors really come from Sweden? Were they really river pilots or pirates operating out of the east coast port of King’s Lynn? Some family stories are true, although some facts may be hidden; my great-grandparents loved each other across a religious divide, but where and how did they meet? August 28, 2016. 8230;and here, times do change – these days,...
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Family holiday 2015, Kent – the garden of England | Lois Elsden
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Skip to main content. Skip to secondary content. Category Archives: Family holiday 2015, Kent – the garden of England. Family holiday 2015, Kent day 8. April 26, 2015. So what were my highlights? First of all being together with my lovely family – my four cousins and partners and children and grandchildren; altogether there have been twenty-five of us, a real gathering of the clan! Secondly, staying in the beautiful Hoath House;. Then the places we’ve visited, including. 8230;scrambled over rocks…. The c...