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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.
MoreWhen 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 […]
MoreI wonder if the old wives whose tales we so often refer to were an actual group of old wives who set down in tablets of stone (or a knitting pattern) their tales which have since been handed down whenever any few people get together and mention the weather, ailments, health, diet, births, marriages, deaths… […]
MoreToday has been a gloomy winter’s day, not helped by sad news of an elderly relative who has left this world. It seems a long wait for brighter days and lighter skies and evenings drawing out… but spring will come.
MoreThere is something so fascinating about reflections anywhere but natural reflections in water are particularly magical; it is easy to imagine people in distant times being entranced and maybe a little awed by the strange phenomena as they would have seen it. Maybe the story most well-known to us is the story of Narcissus, who […]
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Lois Elsden 