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Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Haphazard by Starlight - Poems for Advent

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The Adoration of the Magi, by Andrea Mantegnadd - celebrate Christmas  by reading TS Eliot's 'Journey of the Being a bit of a m...
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Wednesday, 1 January 2014

Spellbound by a Sparkling Story!

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Happy New Year people! I’m still here – I haven’t gone anywhere, and I certainly haven’t given up blogging. But I cannot believe I haven’t ...
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Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Honey, Prisoners - and a King's Speech!

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During the war honey was popular, because sugar was rationed. But Vere doesn't tell us if her sweet gift was made by a local beek...
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Friday, 23 December 2011

Celebrating Christmas

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No list of Christmas books and readings could be complete without something from the Bible - after all, Christmas is a celebration of the bi...
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Tuesday, 20 December 2011

A Grumpy Old Man with an Unusual Job

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I have found myself a new role – as a volunteer in a charity bookshop, which is about as perfect as things can get. I was browsing there a c...
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Monday, 19 December 2011

Radio, Poetry - and Christmas!

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Forget Christmas for a moment, and consider instead the lovely bookish week that lies ahead on BBC Radio.  There are some real treats in sto...
Sunday, 18 December 2011

Journey of the Magi

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I seem to be all behind hand with the Advent Bookfest. having missed day yesterday, but I have a poem for you today - TS Eliot...
Friday, 16 December 2011

Christmas Comfort with Mr Pickwick

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Christmas Eve at Mr Wardle's, by Hablot Knight Browne, known as Phiz. How can I have got this far through December without mention...
Sunday, 11 December 2011

The Country Child's Christmas

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I’m celebrating Day 11 of the Advent Bookfest with a 1952 Faber and Faber edition of Alison Uttley’s The Country Child , illustrated with wo...
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Thursday, 1 December 2011

Be Nice to your Turkeys this Christmas...

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It’s December and Christmas is on the way, so I’ve decided to celebrate with an Advent Bookfest, which will include poems, readings, diary e...
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