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Bordeaux! Eau eau, let’s go …

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 20 January 2023

A pre-Christmas present! One minute I was suffering from rainsoaked doom and gloom. A split second later a sudden ‘ping’ heralded an unexpected invitation to Bordeaux. Ho ho, I thought – let’s go! We are here already, staying at ‘Chez Dupont’ – a restaurant with rooms nearby. It’s sunny and warm and the long weekend […]

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A Waiter in Paris

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 25 November 2022

Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City By Edward Chisholm This is an unputdownable story of the author’s trials and travails in ‘The City of Light’ – Paris. The only other book I can compare it to is ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’ by George Orwell, which was fascinating and utterly grim […]

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Sailing the Dodecanese islands …

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 28 August 2022

In 1970 we drove an old Land Rover from London to Greece and back over two and a half months. We said then that this would be the first of many journeys to Greece – but we never made those journeys. I’m hoping these islands will make up for it … I booked this trip […]

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And then we had Paris…

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 27 March 2022

Having been confined to these shores for so long I realised that although I longed to ‘cross the Channel’ I was also afraid of ‘spreading my wings’. When my daughter said she had Eurostar vouchers and invited me to join her, I was thrilled – but could I do it? I hadn’t had Covid, I […]

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The Biscuit – The History of a Very British Indulgence

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 25 March 2022

by Lizzie Collingham – a big thank you for an inspiring and very enjoyable book … If somebody had given me this book to read at school – ( obviously not even written then!) – I would have fallen in love with history. Corn Laws didn’t do it for me. But at this later stage […]

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Hollyhocks in Britain – ‘Roses trémières’ in France …

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 27 September 2021

I’ve often tried to grow hollyhocks (alcea rosea) but with little success. And yet I’ve seen some growing eight feet high in places where you would think nothing would survive. For instance, against a high wall in full sunshine, their roots presumably finding water below a hard, arid, gravel surface. The Anglo Saxon name was […]

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I bought a painting of Sarah Bernhardt at the Maas gallery … and found out so much more …

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 3 August 2021

About two years ago, I was walking along Bond Street and noticed a very pretty, small gallery at the bottom of Clifford Street – The Maas Gallery. The painting in the middle of the window which drew me in was of waves – spectacular but sadly, way above my price range. However, I was happy […]

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‘Wilding’ the garden – Chris Packham style …

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 26 July 2021

After watching Chris Packham (Springwatch) on television, we decided to let our (small) lawn grow wild this year – except for a narrow path, (which I snipped with scissors), running through the middle, so I could get to the washing line. It meant that in the morning my feet and ankles were covered in dew […]

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Down by the river Thames – Barnes, June 2021

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 15 July 2021

A quite exhausting day with the ever present, pushy Zoom in annoying evidence. In the early evening we escaped and walked down Nassau road towards the river, following a slight breeze, to rest our eyes and blow way digital cobwebs. Something different and special was going on. The sun was deciding to call it a […]

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Lockdown days

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 15 March 2021

I’m trying an experiment. Some days I’m up in blue skies and other days I’m down in the mud. I decided to find something for each day of one working week to illustrate beauty and optimism in the world. I’m starting from home – looking at things locally, since we’re in lockdown. I don’t know […]

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