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Abbots Bromley – my old school, revived by the Chinese …

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 5 May 2020

I was aged ten when I went to the boarding school of St Mary and St Anne, Abbots Bromley, in 1957. Seven years later, in 1963, I left to explore the world. In July 2019, there was an article in ‘The Times’ about Abbots Bromley closing down. It had changed over the years from a […]

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Delphi, Jeremy and ‘coronavirus’

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 13 April 2020

Last September I had been complaining that a ‘real’ holiday, not accompanied by work, had become, more and more, a ‘pipe dream’. ‘Well, just book something and I’ll fit in with it’, said John, as if he was batting away a mosquito. I had just got a brochure from ‘Travel Editions’. One of the trips […]

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Favourite books of 2019

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 1 February 2020

I don’t know if it’s a case of getting older but I do sometimes re-read books I have loved. These include ‘The Greengage Summer’ by Rumer Godden, ‘The Lady Vanishes’ by Ethel Lina White, ‘The Balkan Trilogy’ by Olivia Manning, ‘Hotel du Lac’ by Anita Brookner, ‘Unreliable Memoirs’ by Clive James (after his recent death), […]

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Christmas Day 2019

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 26 December 2019

So often, Christmas Day is disappointing weather wise. But in 2019 it was beautiful – no snow, which would also have looked beautiful, but bright sunshine in a blue bowl of sky. On our way across the Common we passed the giant tree, which reminded us of a heartbreaking accident. Iris Goldsmith died, aged fifteen, […]

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Homeward Bound

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 2 December 2019

It’s late afternoon at the end of November. I just got off the bus which is continuing up river. Van Gogh’s painting ‘Starry Night over the Rhône’ comes to mind as I contemplate the reflections of the street lamps over the water. What shall I make for supper?

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Bridget Riley – Op Art in the Psychedelic Sixties

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 29 November 2019

Bridget Riley is best known for her eye wrenching optical illusion art in the 1960s – much of it in black and white. The idea spilled over into clothes, some designed by Mary Quant. I still have something from that time in my wardrobe – I must have been so slim, it was so easy […]

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Olafur Eliasson at Tate Modern

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 10 November 2019

An interactive exhibition by this Danish-Icelandic artist is full of light and reflections – a mixture of the beauty of the natural world with the science that it is made up of and a universe that we don’t totally understand. Oddly, I had bought a ‘Little Sun’ (renewable energy) at the Design Museum in Copenhagen […]

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Wimereux – 1st October 2019

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 14 October 2019

This old fashioned, Hulot-esque town overlooks the sea on the north coast of France. I was introduced to it by my sister and her husband. Almost fifty years ago Mickey and his friend managed to cross the Channel in not much more than a leaky dinghy. They lost their way and finally landed somewhere in […]

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Bank Holiday with Roland Mouret et al …

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 30 August 2019

The ‘dog days’ of August – people on holiday, searching for the sun, which they seem to have left behind in London. It was so very hot. I used to work in Mayfair in the 1970s for Heinemann – publishers in Curzon Street, near Shepherd’s Market. Mayfair was always wealthy and quiet, with an ambient […]

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My family of houseplants

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 8 July 2019

Last year I was given a giant terracotta pot, full of succulents, for Christmas. They looked exquisite and in the early Spring I decided to put them out on the garden table for a day or two. The sun was warm and I thought they would benefit from fresh air. On the second morning, I […]

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