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January 13, 2021 Susan Elkin

Susan’s Bookshelves: The Death of Grass

My mother was very taken with John Christopher’s The Death of Grass. Fascinated by the idea that a grass-attacking virus could destroy civilisation,...

January 12, 2021 Susan Elkin

Books – for life, living and love

I was five years and three months when I started school. I could already read fluently. My mother, who’d been an infants...

November 11, 2020 Susan Elkin

Fleeced

About 20 years ago I bought Nick a grey fleece – effectively an outdoor jacket. And just for fun, as it was...

September 21, 2020 Susan Elkin

Healthy chats

Many years ago I worked with a thirty something woman whose husband, Bill, had died a year or two before I met...

September 17, 2020 Susan Elkin

Widow’s hols

For fifty years I went on holiday with Nick – from the very first time when we stayed in a mobile home...