Lois Elsden
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How simple a matter it is to teach your own daughter cookery
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I am lucky to be able to remember far back into my childhood, my babyhood even because I can remember being in my pram at about a year old! From my first memories I can remember being in our kitchen while my mum, Monica, cooked. She was a great baker and the…
Bletchingley Colgates
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In 1841 there was only one Colgate living in the area, Henry who was born in 1816. he was living at Leyfield Farm Chipstead which was about 2hours walk away; a married couple farmed there, James and Lucy Brown and their little new born daughter, Lucy Ann, along with several young people, 15…
Celtic Shambles… groupie part 2
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It was another of those moments of serendipity which created one of the greatest Celtic music legends of… the small Somerset village of Uphill. My children were young and I was at home with them when late one evening my husband Bari sauntered the couple of hundred yards to our…
A house with a heart…
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I ended up at Manchester Polytechnic purely by accident; back in the sixties, if you wanted to study English at University you had to have Latin and for various reasons I did not have O-level Latin… but that’s another story. There were 13 universities I could apply for… none of them were interested in me and like a lot…
Reading aloud
It’s the last lap now, doing the last that I can to make ‘The Stalking of Rosa Czekov’ as good as I can.. It’s so difficult to be objective about something I am so familiar with, I must have read it tens of times, I have watched it in my head, lived with it… but to gain objectivity, to spot the grammatical errors that spellcheck doesn’t throw up, to notice the […]
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