Music... and my favourite gigs by Lois

Lilac Wine

I always thought ‘Lilac Wine’ was written by Elkie Brooks… I was wrong, it was written in 1950 by James Shelton and loads of other people have recorded it, including  Eartha Kitt, Nina Simone, and Katie Melua; it seems a female sort of song to e but maybe that’s because I associate it with Elkie Brooks, […]

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Family Stories by Lois

Yes!… Yes?

I have a fascination with graveyards and old memorials and commemorative plaques, not to be morbid but to wonder about past lives. So often there is a story behind the inscription and sometimes little biographical notes tell us something about the person who is being remembered. So wandering in the Kingston Cometary in Portsmouth, I glanced […]

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