Gifts

Three lists: thoughts on gifts, gifts I have received and gifts I have given. And what I think every given book should have in it.

The other day, I was outside, hanging the wet washing in the sunshine when I turned and spotted my friend walking down the street, holding a small golden glass bottle in her hand.

She had brought me some of her homemade elderflower cordial.

I was touched that she had thought of me when filling her bottles and doing her rounds dropping them off on people’s…