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The Cup that Cheers
Read more: The Cup that CheersWhether it’s problems at work, unmanageable debts or relationship issues, a mental health café can help.
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School Crossing Patrol: Everyone Loves a Lollipop
Read more: School Crossing Patrol: Everyone Loves a LollipopBack in the 1950s only one in five households owned a car. Even so, it was already becoming clear that increased traffic was becoming a danger to child pedestrians.
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The Frugal Bride: a modern folk tale
Read more: The Frugal Bride: a modern folk taleBeing a woman of independent mind and independent means, she decided that she would use all her savings, every last penny, to pay off her mortgage and her car loan. She was determined to enter into her new relationship debt-free.
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Blossomise and Dwell
Read more: Blossomise and Dwell‘My wife has a proper job,’ Simon Armitage explained to the rows of booklovers filling the auditorium in Derby Theatre at Derby Book Festival. I have heard him say this before and I suppose it is part of his repertoire, a performer’s patter between songs. His wry, self-deprecating manner goes down well with the…
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I’m an author…
Read more: I’m an author……so technically this is work. Having had some success with poetry and keeping up a regular column of prose, I wanted to broaden my skills and have a go at writing historical fiction so I booked on a course at Tŷ Newydd, the National Writing Centre of Wales The five-day course takes place in…
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Moving House
Read more: Moving HouseSometimes when people move house, they are still surrounded by boxes months later. It all feels too much. They can’t seem to reorganise their bits and bobs in this strange environment. It’s safer to leave them all packed away. I haven’t moved house now for two decades, but I think I must be that…
All who wander are not lost