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Covid Christmas 2020

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 28 January 2021

Was it worth putting up decorations during lockdown for just the two of us? I didn’t buy a tree and was grateful for that because it seems such a sad waste of trees even though the glorious smell of pine forests infuses the air in your home for a short while. When I was a […]

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Books to read during ‘lockdown’ times

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 21 December 2020

The thing I miss most at the moment is having a conversation in the company of friends who make me laugh with abandon. There are different types of humour – and it’s the one thing that makes an immediate bond with someone when you recognise that you have a similar type. It’s not easy to […]

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Harbingers of Autumn ‘At Home’

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 7 November 2020

Holidays cancelled or changed to the UK only. Some people got away over the summer but testing for Covid-19 brought hassle to airports and a hasty return from places like France to catch the last trains home through the Channel Tunnel before restrictions were put in place. Some of us stayed put – but reluctantly. […]

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The Thames at Wallingford … time for a change

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 3 September 2020

We have a chance of three days away as lockdown is lifted – for the moment. Where to go, especially as coronavirus was still ‘out there’ ? It had to be less than two hours drive from home and by a river, where we could walk and take a picnic. If it rained a lot, […]

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Two lovely men

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 8 July 2020

I talk about these two men in my biography on this site. However, I recently came upon their obituaries when I was looking through old photos and wanted to celebrate the time I spent with each of them. I loved them both. I had the good fortune to be personal assistant to John St John […]

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‘The Mirror & the Light’ by Hilary Mantel

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 4 July 2020

These ‘coronavirus’ months at home began with feeling anxious. It settled down into a routine, restful at times, restless at others. Gradually, lockdown started to become tedious and I became desperate to achieve something other than domestic chores – all necessary but many of them repetitive, made worse by not much of a change of […]

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The Vaults at Waterloo

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 30 June 2020

I didn’t know that these underground tunnels which spider out from Waterloo station even existed. They have been turned into an arts space, which include an underground theatre. Spooky bars with shadowy characters in dark corners made me feel I would never see daylight again. Oddly, we came upon a family we knew well, who […]

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‘Faces’ on Ludgate Hill by Emily Young FRSS

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 19 June 2020

Walking up Ludgate Hill from Fleet Street, I was about to cross the road towards St Paul’s Cathedral … when this stopped me in my tracks … and there were more! I don’t know what these sculptures represent and so I’ve just put in my own interpretation of the faces. They are magnificent. ‘Emily Young […]

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Soap/sapo/sabun – a short history of soap

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 19 June 2020

Sales of soap have rocketed during ‘coronavirus’. A gift of soap has always been welcome – our forced early return from Greece in March, Covid-19 snapping at our heels, had six bars of orange scented olive soap tucked into my luggage, which were happily received by friends. I began to think of the origins of […]

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Marmalade

By Elaine Elkington | Published: 2 June 2020

Working from home during ‘coronavirus’ lockdown has meant that toast and marmalade, which we usually only have for breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays has been added to our normal weekday fare of yoghourt with cereal, fruit and nuts. Our best choice is ‘Duchy’, organic thick cut but we’ve had to cast around when that wasn’t […]

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