- Jan 1
- 6 min
Christmas week
My parents were very sociable. Every year, in the week before Christmas, Robinsons Brewery would deliver a barrel of their special mild...
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- Dec 31, 2021
- 6 min
Christmas – final preparations!
One of my favourite Christmas activities was going to the different fairs, fetes and sales which every local organisation seemed to have...
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- Dec 21, 2021
- 4 min
Christmas - the build up
Time travel is powered by the sense of smell. The scent of cloves instantly carries me back to Nana who is lifting the lid of a pale blue...
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- Jul 30, 2021
- 9 min
Holidays
The start of the school holidays had that special Friday evening feeling. Routine vanished and who knew what the next day might bring....
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- Jul 17, 2021
- 6 min
Moving into Top Class - and the dreaded 11+
Somehow, impossibly, my eldest grandson will be moving into his school's top class after the summer holidays. This sparked all the mixed...
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- Jun 27, 2021
- 6 min
Real Trains
‘If you fell in there you’d be dead in two minutes’ said a voice very close to my ear. Instinctively I pulled back although I wasn't in...
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