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Jean Day
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Good Bye
Continuing my theme of people dying, this has been a busy week. I had two funerals to play the organ for and each had its own challenges. One of the...
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Brenda
Brenda has been my bridge partner for the last 13 years or so. We are about the same age, and level of ability, but our friendship has been very...
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Beth Tree and the Elgars 11
1908 One of Sir Edward's passions had nothingwhatsoever to do with music. He loved to experiment with chemicalsand to do practical things with the...
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Beth Tree and the Elgars 10
1906 Although this has little to do with the Elgars, I want to mention what was happening in the politics of Worcester. The nation was full of the...
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50 Years Ago Today
July 31, 1967 It' was already hot at 6 a.m. when I woke up. This would be the last time, I thought, that I would be sharing a bed with my sister,...
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Hi Bee
Posted on Fri, 19 Dec 2014
Hi Bee
Another very good poem for your collection of work on abused women. Have you thought of publishing it as a group? Or getting in touch with someone who would have contact with a woman's shelter who possibly publishes a newsletter or...
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Hi Elsie
Posted on Sun, 20 Aug 2017
Hi Elsie
This was a very interesting and emotional story about you and your family, and death and relatives and London. I found it very moving. I like the idea of giving roses or trees or something living to remember people who have died....
Read full commentPosted in Outcomes of my Dad's recent Funeral in London
Hi Rhiannon
Posted on Wed, 17 May 2017
Hi Rhiannon
I really like this. Sunset is my favourite time of the day, but you made a good case for sunrise too.
Jean
Read full commentPosted in Swallowed up?
Hi Rhiannon
Posted on Tue, 09 May 2017
Hi Rhiannon
This is great. I like the quotes, and how you expand and interpret them.
And so true.
Jean
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Hi Rhiannon
Posted on Sun, 30 Oct 2016
Hi Rhiannon
I see the choice of commenting directly have been taken away and replaced with a like. Anyway, I do like it and sang it through to the tune, which worked well.
Jean
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Hi Rhiannon
Posted on Sun, 23 Oct 2016
Hi Rhiannon
I like this hymn, and the way it mentions history for evidence.
Jean
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Hi Rhiannon
Posted on Tue, 18 Oct 2016
Hi Rhiannon
I like this one because I have done lots of research on Wilberforce when I was writing m book about Liverpool.
Jean
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Hi Rhiannon
Posted on Thu, 13 Oct 2016
Hi Rhiannon
This is a lovely little poem. I do like the colours of autumn, and look forward to the pretty trees, which are just starting to show their colours around here.
Jean
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Hi Rhiannon
Posted on Tue, 04 Oct 2016
Hi Rhiannon
Good poem, and certainly something that a polititian should aspire to. I had good help from my local councillor over my badger problem, which seems now to have gone away - and also got a letter from my MP when our senior...
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Hi Rhiannon
Posted on Fri, 26 Aug 2016
Hi Rhiannon
You have a way with making you few words be very meaningful and appropriate ones, and giving us a lovely picture of your area.
Jean
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