Lois Elsden
WRITER
Things which happen…
My husband suggested they make a TV series about me… The things which happen to me, a combination of forgetfulness, being absent-minded, getting distracted, and unfortunate but funny mishaps I somehow managed to throw the front door key into the bushiest bushes in the front garden, bushes which also had a lot of spikes and […]
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Revisiting a plant in the wrong place…. It may have been Bob Flowerdew, the well-known pony-tailed gardener who sometimes makes a sensible point… it may have been Bob Flowerdew who said a weed is just a plant growing in the wrong place. I thought this as I walked past our neighbour’s lawn on the way to […]
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Powdering noses
I was looking back over some old posts and came across this which I wrote while working on my novel, Loving Judah. I was thinking of phrases which have disappeared… at one point in ‘Loving Judah’ Aislin says she needs to ‘powder her nose’, a phrase her grandma used for visiting the bathroom. Bavol who is younger than her, doesn’t understand […]
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