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Rivendell
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Spa pool and hall, lovely landscape. Newfound home away from home, overlooking the Cheshire Plain, and Manchester in the distance. Like Rivendell, it...
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- 537 reads
Funeral For A Friend
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Friends lost, one by one. We have all got to go sometime. Not like this, taken before our time. Not taken, chosen. A desperate way to go. Time ran...
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Contradictions
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I heard somewhere that Robespierre didn’t believe in the death penalty when he became a politician. To George Washington all people were created...
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Book Review: The Private Lives of the Tudors
A review of Tracy Borman's intimate history of the Tudor dynasty.
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Kieren Fallon - The Biography
A sentence on the inside of the fly cover of this book sums up Kieren Fallon’s career in the saddle: ‘Triumph and disaster have been inseparable...
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- 640 reads
A Song For David Bowie
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Hear this David Jones I wrote a song for you About a strange young man called Bowie With a voice like poetry in motion. He was the man who sold the...
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Achilleio
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Memories of Troy and Ancient Greece, World War 1, and speculations about nearby Albania, from Corfu. A Beautiful Palace on top of a mountain overlooking Corfu Town.
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Are We Going To See Corfu?
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There are more beaches to sit on, 2 fortresses, parks and museums, and that’s just in Corfu Town. The buses are usable but confusing. They seem to go...
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Half Way Holiday Blues (Day 4)
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Half way through the holiday already! I always get the half way holiday blues. How do we get more Euros? Will my wife’s cold get better? Or will she...
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- 467 reads
Somehow We Are All Equal On Holiday
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Somehow we are all equal on holiday. We could be a lowly carer or the Mayor of London, a bank manager or a bus driver; We’re all Brits, together on...
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