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Bits and pieces
This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!
Good cooks always use…
Another advert from Mrs Beeton, the 1912 edition, and if you went shopping today you could still buy Robinson’s barley products, squashes and drinks… and many other ‘new’ lines too! Atora still makes suet, and in fact I have a vegetarian ‘suet’ packet in my cupboard for when I make puddings… not that I do very often, […]
MoreRadio-Active Ærated Waters – for the treatment of gout, rheumatism and nervous afflicitons
Like many people I have several copies of Mrs Beeton; I have my own copy, acquired when I was cooking for myself, I have my mum’s well-used copy which I inherited and I have this old copy from 1912. This is the ‘updated’ version, the original was published in the 1850’s. I’m fascinated by the adverts there […]
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The Mercury
Our local newspaper, the Weston Mercury was established in 1843; this is the present office for our local newspaper. Apparently, it has won the Newspaper Society’s Community Newspaper of the year award several times, including 2007 and 2008.
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Inspiration
When I was teaching in my last post, because it was a very small unit with only three teachers and twenty students, we all had to teach subjects other than our first one. So, as well as teaching English, I had to teach Citizenship and History… despite that there were still odd slots on the timetable […]
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Lois Elsden 