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September… and daughter flies to the USA for a year! Lovely weather in October, out and about exploring Somerset! To London in November … Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red … and Iceland, beautiful Iceland… December! It must be Christmas party time!
MoreJanuary floods, poor Somerset February, I publish ‘Radwinter’, my first genealogical mystery Tom the bear’s house, visiting Killerton in March Family holiday in Norfolk in April!
MoreThis photo is so of its time; the rowing club blazers, the baggy trousers held up by braces (I bet Donald had his held up with a tie – he couldn’t bear belts or braces!) and the brilliantined hair. This is my dad Donald, somewhere in Cambridge, no doubt near the river; he is on […]
MoreMy sister and I looking very smart in our beautiful dresses and velvet boleros made by our mum. Mine was white with red ribbon running through the satin, and my bolero was red; my sister’s was blue, and I always secretly wished I had the blue one but I pretended red was my favourite colour. We are […]
MoreWe have just cooked spaghetti Bolognese, and are serving it into bowls… there would have been maybe three or four other people here but we were doing the cooking on a tiny little Baby Belling, a midget electric cooker. This was my first year away from home at Manchester Polytechnic.
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Lois Elsden 