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My Tuscan Holiday in 2012
On Thursday evening, 11 October 2012, Doe and I, together with our friends Doug and Marilyn, started our holiday in the beautiful town of Anghiari in Tuscany, Italy.
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Thoughts While Preparing the Turkey
Christmas 1948 The first Christmas I remember was in 1948, when my mother and I were living in Toronto. Mother, who had been a Salvation Army officer in England before…
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This Spectr’d Isle
My mother has been to see me only a couple of times since she died The last time she visited she came with my grandmother, who died in 1954. Now…
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My year as a child soldier
ARMY cadets in Plymouth have been banned from carrying rifles in public just days before they were due to take part in a Remembrance festival. (The Herald) Yes, I did…
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Penny for the guy?
What’s the longest-lived and most successful fundraising ‘ask’ ever? It has to be “Penny for the guy”. Boys in England have been asking for money from strangers in the street…
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My New Love
Okay, true confessions time. The real reason why I have lost so much weight in the past 18 months is because I have found a new love. I’ve not really…
