Ivy Mitchell is a post - 16 pupil at New Barn School – a specialist provision for children with high-functioning autism. Ivy wants to become a writer or perhaps work in a library or in retail. Ivy writes short stories and novels and this is one of her shorter pieces of fiction. It seemed like only yesterday that ...
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For many years Marion May has researched her Jackson family tree culminating in a book published by her and her cousin. This is entitled ‘The Ornamental Jacksons’ and tells the story of her 4 x great grandfather Thomas, who at the beginning of the 18th century, carved wooden frames for paintings and mirrors from his ...
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When I hear the phrase ‘The Streets of London’, it reminds me of the song: ‘Let me take you by the hand and walk you through the streets of London’ by Roger Whittaker. I thought it was a song of past poverty, but sadly that’s a wrong perception as I discovered recently and am ashamed to report. One sunny, summers ...
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Personal protection equipment was not delivered to chez Shepley. At least not any from parochial or government stock. I put this neglect down to my loudly voiced political views. Being extremely aged and owning the essential underlying conditions I felt keeping me away from needing the care of our stretched medical ...
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It is a newly acknowledged truth that any mature man with an underlying condition must self isolate to continue his life. If he is just continuing to do what he was enjoying before he might be advised to get a life. The only truly major change from my daily routine, and indeed, for my fellow isolator, my son Julien, ...
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Self Isolation Comfort in a world of Inequality It is a dilemma at this time to strike a suitable tone. Should one play the cheerful jester, the optimist for the coming of a new society of caring and sharing? My sporadic Facebook glances indicate the upbeat tone is much in evidence albeit somewhat anodyne and as ...
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My Child… You may not know me, but I know everything about you …PSALM 139:1 I know when you sit down and when you rise up …PSALM 139:2 I am familiar with all your ways …PSALM 139:3 Even the very hairs on your head are numbered …MATTHEW 10:29-31 For you were made in my image …GENESIS 1:27 In me you live ...
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Describing the most natural, authentic 7 weeks of my life. Living and working in an indigenous community, and trekking coast to coast. Henry Bushell, a nineteen year old from Plaistow will be giving a slide presentation and talk about his recent trip to Costa Rica with Raleigh International - on Saturday, January ...
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Eighty years ago, in December 1939, Great Britain was at war. Adolf Hitler had become German chancellor in 1933 and under his command the armies of the Third Reich were now marching through Europe leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. Once again Britain faced an uncertain future. It was only twenty-one years ...
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As the train trundled along the tracks, I sat on the tartan seat, gazing out of the window into the landscape filled with lakes, coniferous trees and mountains that stretched higher than the eye could see. The scenery looks beautiful! I thought to myself. Hopefully where I’m going is as beautiful as what I’m looking ...
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