Sometime in the 1980s Mum was able to buy an Elna sewing machine - actually, I think her brother Des (the uncle who also left me the money to buy Fiona with) must have bought it for her, or at least paid the bill. Anyway, it was a lovely little Swiss-made thing, intended to be portable, and as she was keen on making things to wear, she used this machine all the time. She was then in her sixties.
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