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Lois Wakeman

@loiswakeman

Technical writer, potter, photographer, geek and country girl

 Uplyme, Devon
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Joined January 2009
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Bench Tor and Venford revisited - mist, moss, sunshine, views! lois.co.uk/bench-tor-and-ven…
Bench Tor and Venford revisited

Bench Tor and Venford revisited

For once, the weather forecast for Easter was for sunshine and light winds, so we packed a picnic and headed west early to miss the traffic. We left Uplyme in brilliant sunshine, and were somewhat …

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Branscombe Beach - chalk, gypsum and lots of big rocks lois.co.uk/branscombe-beach/
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'Carrot Cake' overnight oats - a breakfast dish lois.co.uk/carrot-cake-overn…
‘Carrot Cake’ overnight oats

‘Carrot Cake’ overnight oats

I remembered seeing the name of this recipé somewhere ages ago, and here is my interpretation. It makes a nice breakfast especially if you serve it with fresh fruit. This makes enough for 2 hearty …

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Outside my comfort zone - street photography in Exeter lois.co.uk/outside-my-comfor…
Outside my comfort zone

Outside my comfort zone

“Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.” Oscar Wilde I’m a member o…

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A cold dawn in Lyme Regis - golden light over everything lois.co.uk/a-cold-dawn-in-ly…
A cold dawn in Lyme Regis

A cold dawn in Lyme Regis

The weather forecasters have been making doom-laden pronouncements of arctic air for some days now. After an unusually mild autumn, we are finally remembering the normal temperature for this time o…

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Advent Calendar 2022 - a colour a day through the visible spectrum. Today - violet lois.co.uk/advent-calendar-2…
Advent Calendar 2022

Advent Calendar 2022

My ninth advent calendar for friends and followers. This year, I’m using a theme of the visible spectrum – all photography is about light, so starting at violet and going through to ind…

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Savernake forest - fungi galore lois.co.uk/savernake-forest/
Savernake forest

Savernake forest

I spent a morning in this extensive broadleaf forest in Wiltshire with a friend. We didn’t know what to expect on our expedition, but the answer was, mostly fungi. There are large numbers of …

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Wabi-sabi apples - or, tales from the bottom of the garden lois.co.uk/wabi-sabi-apples/
Wabi-sabi apples

Wabi-sabi apples

This year, our Egremont Russet apple tree was laden with apples despite the hot dry summer. For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been eating windfalls, but recent winds and the inevitable abscission…

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Postcards from Cornwall - three great beaches to visit lois.co.uk/postcards-from-co…
Postcards from Cornwall

Postcards from Cornwall

Having visited Bude earlier in the year, it was wonderful to be back in Cornwall visiting some of the wonderful beaches on the north-west and south coasts. Here are some highlights! Saturday saw a …

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Melplash Show - animal magic lois.co.uk/melplash-show-2/
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White Ox Mead - a name from the mists of time lois.co.uk/white-ox-mead/
White Ox Mead

White Ox Mead

Every time we drive to Bath, I spot an old rust-stained fingerpost pointing down a country lane to White Ox Mead. One of those white cast iron signs with raised black capital lettering. And I muse …

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Harvest moon - a word painting of a summer evening lois.co.uk/harvest-moon/
Harvest moon

Harvest moon

I’ve just returned from a short stroll down our lane in the cool of the evening, to see the glorious harvest moon rising from behind the trees over a pale shimmering field of oats. Like a rip…

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A grey day in high summer - redeemed by stranded seaweed lois.co.uk/a-grey-day-high-s…
A grey day, high summer

A grey day, high summer

Like yesterday, today began dull and misty, the low cloud blowing from the sea, and the oat fields shading from dusty golden yellow to grey as they vanished into the distance. Spattering mizzle (mi…

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A small piece of social history - laundry marks and utility bedding lois.co.uk/a-small-piece-of-…
A small piece of social history

A small piece of social history

After months of prevarication, I’ve finally turned out the airing cupboard which had got to the stage of bursting the door open, there was so much linen in there. Whilst it felt good to bag u…

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Bookmaking - no bets, just a photo book project lois.co.uk/bookmaking/
Darling Bude in May - geology galore lois.co.uk/darling-bude-in-m…
A salmagundi - random shots from Lyme Regis in Dorset lois.co.uk/a-salmagundi/
Spring tide at Seatown - studies in silver and gold lois.co.uk/spring-tide-at-se…
Timeless - sheep grazing on turnips lois.co.uk/timeless/
Timeless

Timeless

The scene above is, on the face of it, quite timeless, and was taken just a few steps from home. There are several well-known 20th century paintings of sheep in turnip fields – I remember one…

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What am I looking at? A short musing on abstract photography lois.co.uk/what-am-i-looking…
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