Elspeth Thompson is a British writer specialising in gardening, interiors and greener living. For further information see the website elspeththompson.co.uk. This is her first Blog, focusing on the transformation of a cottage made from two Victorian railway carriages into the eco-house of her dreams.
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MY CURRENT BOOKS
The paperback edition of The Wonderful Weekend Book: Reclaim Life's Simple Pleasures
(John Murray £8.99) is now out
... and there will be a lovely new cover for the paperback of Homemade: Gorgeous Things to Make with Love
with Ros Badger (Collins £12.99), out in May 2010.
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For more on these books, and the others that I have written, and links to order them, please go to my website and click on Books.
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Dear Elspeth,
I would like to get in contact with your regarding an editorial project with a japanese publishing house called Editions Paumes. Could you contact me at helena.amourdedieu@gmail.com ? (i couldn’t find an email address on your site…)
Thanks in advance,
Helena
Dear Elspeth,
I would like to get in contact with you regarding a text written by you which we’ve requested from UK House&Garden magazine, October/2006 issue, pages 204-207, titled “Paean to green”.
Please could you be so kind and contact with me at
allagianni@liberis.gr
Thank you so much,
Best
Mary
So pleased to have found your blog. I am a great fan of your beautiful writing. Good luck with the railway carriage house.
Thank you for the link and the comments
GMx
Hi Elspeth!
Been a long time…I am still in Serbia and now own a publishing company. You know anything about plants in Eastern Europe?
Look forward to hearing,
G.
Dear Elspeth,
I contacted your publishers John Murray a few weeks ago, as I very much wanted to set up a telephone interview with you for this Friday 19th at 12.45pm UK time to talk about your latest book ´The Wonderful Weekend Book´
I thought I´d try and contact you directly, as I haven´t heard back from the publishers as to whether it´s possible or not.
We are Radio Europe Mediteranneo, Spain´s largest English speaking radio network, broadcasting to approx a million listeners. Please see our website http://www.rem.fm
Please can you email me on hannahm@rem.fm regarding your availability.
Kind regards,
Hannah Murray
Dear Elspeth,
I just found your book The Wonderful Weekend Book, it is delightful and heartwarming reading. Just brings you back to the simple things. So far i have wrote a long letter which i thoroughly enjoyed(i definetly will have to do more of that!). At the present time we are painting my daughters room so i was able to take her whole bed out to the backyard and luxuriate in the comfort of looking at the night sky from the cosiest of positions(I am not a camper). I have started making my recipe book and have sent out letters to friends and relatives to supply me with their favourite summer dish(i am from Australia) handwritten of course. Then i will try them out on the family and also write comments on what the family thinks.
Now since i have visited your website i will definetly start collecting nature to display around the home , how beautiful and even though i am a shocking gardener i will try and do a few things(eg. grow herbs)
Thankyou very much for sharing your thoughts in this delightful book and now in this web. I love the idea of making train carriages into a home .I love your huge kitchen table . Unfortunately we have a tiny house but i can dream.
Keep sharing i am loving it
Blossom
Wow – what a lovely comment! Thanks. Glad you are enjoying it…
Sometimes I wonder why I am doing it and how/if to keep it up now the major building work (which I set up the Blog to document) is finished. But I enjoy it too. And I like having a record (like the physical scrapbook or album I do not keep) – and we do still have a fair way to go, so thanks for your enthusiasm…
xx E
Hi Elspeth,
Would it be possible for you to send me your email address? We have an exhibition coming up that I would love to discuss with you,
Best wishes,
Alice
Dear Elspeth
Absolutely love The Wonderful Weekend Book and waited patiently for Homemade which arrived today. Looks really lovely and inspiring. However there is a ‘typo’ you might want to change before the next edition as it changes the sense of the sentence completely.
Back to the book now!
All the Best
Sarah
I recently purchased The Wonderful Weekend Book and luxuriously dip into it on a regular basis for ideas on how to enrich our weekends. It has also had an unexpected use…I am a Stop Smoking Advisor for the NHS and many of my clients use cigarettes as a form of reward. Often stopping smoking leaves them feeling a bit lost and lacking a ‘treat’. I have started recommending your book and urged them to plan treats and rewards from it. Amazing successes! Thank you.
I came across your blog a couple of weeks ago and have so enjoyed reading it. I am the author of The Secret Remedy Book (illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin). I love anything to do with children’s literature, and there is something so very storybook-wonderful about making a home out of two old Victorian railway carriages! I loved The Boxcar Children as a child, and so you take me right back to my nine-year-old self. Also, I am in great admiration for those of you who are blogging. My husband is helping me start a blog of my own and ~ omigosh! ~ it is harder to do than we thought. But you are inspiring me to persevere!! Thank you so very much for sharing the unfolding story of your railway carriages with the world, and greetings from the other side of the world, from Kari (rhymes with starry) in Texas.
Hi Elspeth
Intrigued by the water chain, would love to find out more
Gina
I am sure that you get bombarded with emails and new ideas that people want you to promote – so apologies on the offstart!!
I have started a company called Kitaura Designs – the main products are tablecloths with central holes to enable the umbrella. They all have a seam of either buttons or poppers (the wax ones) to allow you to take the cloth off without taking the umbrella out. The cloths come in a variety of colours – turquoise/lime – beige/linen – pink spots and blue spots. The spotty ones also come in a wax material. They do make any garden table look extremely smart certainly enhance them.
I also have matching napkins, bunting and seat covers.
Please do have a look at my webstie – http://www.kitaruadesigns.co.uk . I would be happy to send you any information or samples, if you wish. If you have any suitable articles that you could include these – of course, I would be most grateful.
I must say, I think they are great!!!
Many thanks for your time.
Amanda Wordsworth
Hi Elspeth,
I’m writing on behalf of Oxford College of Garden Design. We have an exciting announcement coming up in January (which will be of interest to aspiring garden designers and gardening enthusiasts worldwide) – and were wondering if you’d be interested in having this as an exclusive/discussing how best we handle the announcement press wise.
Would love to hear from you if you’re interested. Wasn’t sure the best way to get in touch.
Cheers,
Elspeth Briscoe (another Elspeth!).
http://www.elspeth.tumblr.com
http://www.elspethbriscoe.com
Dear Elsbeth,
Thank you so very much for sending your Wonderful Weekend Book, and a page full of your exquisite handwriting. I gobbled the book up avidly.
It nmeans mnore than I can say when people are as touched as you were by The School of Life. It was a dream built up in my bedroom and it has been wonderful to see it come true. The place itself is rather beautiful – do try to pop in sometime (and when you do, ask to go downstairs to see the big mural).
So many things about your joyful book struck a chord – Mary Oliver’s wonderful poem Wild Geese which often provides consolation when I feel overstretched, and your love of the Sailor’s Reading Room in Southwold, to name just two. Other things will bring new joys – the Narcissi from the Scilly Isles I particularly look forward to thoguh I think i have to wait till the winter now – at least the , snowdrops are tiding me over very happily for now till Spring comes in properly. And although my little boy Zac is only 4 months old, you can be sure I have lodged the ‘chore jar’ firmly in my mind for the not to distant future!
I’m actually away on maternity leave at the moment but mentioned both you and the book to the staff at The School of Life, who I hope might both stock it. We ran a wonderful Simple Living weekend in Tom Hodgkinson’s garden last summer and I’m sure something along those lines would be amazing on the South Coast. And our urban Gardening day with Richard Reynolds is among oour most often repeated “holidays”. If you are interested in perhaps exploring something together, do feel free to contact Caroline Brimmer, our Programme Manager, direct – caroline@theschooloflife.com. I’ve told her about you and she’s a very like minded soul, a lover of both growing and eating food among other things.
In the meantime, if you ever find yourself near Columbia Road flower market in East London which is where I live, and have time for a cup of tea, please do give me a ring. I’d really love to meet you.
best wishes,
Sophie
Sophie Howarth
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Elspeth, Just wanted you to know I’ve awarded you a One Lovely Blog Award — see this post for details:
http://amperzen.com/blog/?p=629