Lois Elsden
WRITER
Chinese lanterns
As children we walked to school, and in one of the gardens we passed by was a Chinese lantern plant. I was always fascinated by it, by the fruit which were enclosed in a papery case which would open to reveal a shiny bright orange fruit. We were convinced they were poisonous fr some reason, […]
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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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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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