Shona is left on Elizabeths doorstep when she returns from a walk. She takes her in and brings her up and then 15 years later there's a knock at the door. Shona's mum is here!!

Wisdom Looms, tempered Like a daylily blooms In bar s of iron; sleep. Wisdom wakes Like a ravenous lion. With ears of golden wheat Folded yet; into another sleep.

Tyrant seeks treacherous knave

When winter does wrestle death Snow lies falling with petals bereft Her mantle a meadow white lily Uprooting stars in heavens pity. Veils of fine silk are spun to order

The end of the world is nigh! In John Christopher’s novel first published in 1956 a virus is wiping out grass and crops across the globe and with them the survival chances of millions of people.

the moving rods were akin to the ‘OK, who pushed the glass?’ question often asked when playing with Ouija boards.

Letters I may have written to my friend if she were still living.