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By Shelly Ann Posted on 3rd Jan 20213rd Jan 2021

Reflections

People enjoy reading blogs for many reasons, mostly because people are interested in people. And when those people are your acquaintances, neighbours or even friends you have yet to meet, all the better.

Categories:Passions and Pleasures, People, Random and randonnes, Travel and Adventures, Uncategorized
By Guest Blogger Posted on 2nd Jan 20212nd Jan 2021

The Peanut Brittle Christmas Tree

Part one By Jay Thomson and Part two – Dylan’s Story by Christine Ferris Although her friends kept asking her what she most liked about Christmas, six-year-old Emma had so … Continue reading The Peanut Brittle Christmas Tree

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By Guest Blogger Posted on 29th Dec 202029th Dec 2020

A Christmas Memory – Valdivia, Chile 1964

By Lucia Preller
Suddenly, one of the upstairs windows opened up and Agustin told my little brother that they were all in bed.  His father had lost his job, so there was no Christmas for them that year..

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By Yolande Karin Fenny Posted on 27th Dec 202026th Dec 2020

Chapters

Life is moments. Life is magical. Life is the mundane. Life can be hard, unjust, and cruel. Life can be beauty and light. Life in all its complexities has seasons … Continue reading Chapters

Categories:People, Travel and Adventures, UncategorizedTags: People, Travel and Adventures
By Yolande Karin Fenny Posted on 20th Dec 202030th Dec 2020

Tradition and the Ties That Bind

Stories came not just from my father’s imagination or the books we read, stories also came every week in a letter from my grandmother to my mother, and by extension, to all of us.

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By Gillie Posted on 12th Dec 202020th Dec 2020

Seeing Red

If I had to describe Wakefield as a colour, it would be the colour red.

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By Guest Blogger Posted on 6th Dec 20206th Dec 2020

Ekphrasis

By Al Skaw….art can and often does take us to journeys deep within ourselves. It makes life much more bearable ..

Categories:Passions and Pleasures, UncategorizedTags: art, blue guitar, Poetry
By Guest Blogger Posted on 29th Nov 20206th Dec 2020

I Sit and Sip

By Hilary Jocelyn…No, I am instead, a dedicated and unapologetic Tea drinker…

Categories:Passions and Pleasures, UncategorizedTags: tea, Wakefield
By Yolande Karin Fenny Posted on 8th Nov 202015th Nov 2020

Lest We Forget

I think the world was holding its breath last week as in this critical time in human history, the United States of America, a country whose states have been far … Continue reading Lest We Forget

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By Gillie Posted on 31st Oct 20201st Nov 2020

In defence of of small beauties

small day to day experiences can hold just as much richness as visits to exotic lands, or just as much of a thrill as leaping off tall buildings.

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By Guest Blogger Posted on 25th Oct 202025th Oct 2020

Mud

By Hilary Jocelyn – I tried desperately to struggle loose, but each attempt led me deeper and deeper into the murky glue, until I was imprisoned up to my waist.

Categories:Passions and Pleasures, People, Travel and Adventures, UncategorizedTags: bog, mud, Scotland
By Gillie Posted on 26th Sep 202026th Sep 2020

Semi-annual performance review

I’ve been asking my plants the same questions I ask my team “How are you doing?” “What do you need?”

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