Lois Elsden
WRITER
English group’s party… mostly cake!
Although I spend most of my time writing, I also have other activities, one of which is teaching English conversation as a volunteer with a group of people whose first language is something else. The main objective is communication, and we have lots of different ways in which we practice conversing and communicating; our lessons […]
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It’s all gone a little flat…
I have been making amazing progress with my new story about a family in search of its roots… but suddenly tonight, I’m floundering… I just don’t seem to be able to get going at all and I feel as if my story is getting a little… boring! I am suddenly wondering why anyone would possibly […]
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Party food!
In the foreground are my cousin’s chocolate biscuits, and next to them is my rather lopsided dessert… simplicity itself! layers of fruit, layers of ratafia biscuits, layers of crème fraiche.On the bottom I had a layer of grapes, then after the biscuits and cream a layer of melon cubes, then a layer of kiwi fruit, […]
MoreVisiting Radwinter
Some time ago I drove past a sign for the village of Radwinter in Essex and was captivated by the name, and after a few months of brooding on a story, I took the opportunity to write one about a family called Radwinter as part of the National Novel Writing Month challenge. I had never […]
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