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Amateur wordsmiths prove masters at writing their way out of a pub corner

Amateur wordsmiths prove masters at writing their way out of a pub corner

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

IT HAS been a long time since I was the sort of person who would just wander into a pub for a pint. I know it, you now know it, and it quite obviously shows.

"Are you looking for something?" says the girl having a smoke just outside the front door of the Keyberry Hotel,...

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Hooked on crochet but held together by something all of their own making

Hooked on crochet but held together by something all of their own making

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

WHO would have thought that climate change and crochet would be so closely connected? Well, no one, probably. But seeing as how everyone else seems to...

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Society ensuring our museum is more 'Indiana Jones' than dusty old bones

Society ensuring our museum is more 'Indiana Jones' than dusty old bones

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

REGULAR readers might remember talk around these parts of dinosaur museums and natural history societies a couple of weeks ago. It got me thinking...

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Fred points the way and the cool cats play in spiritual home of Totnes jazz

Fred points the way and the cool cats play in spiritual home of Totnes jazz

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

JAZZ. Cool. It's hard to say one without the other. Try it. Jazz ... cool ... Nod your head at the same time, slowly though, don't let's do anything...

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Forget dinosaur bones, natural history is alive and kicking in Kingskerswell

Forget dinosaur bones, natural history is alive and kicking in Kingskerswell

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

I CAN distinctly remember the first time the words 'Natural History' entered my lexicon. I was eight, my brother 10, and my grandparents still young...

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If you are at a loose end in your third age, you could go back to university

If you are at a loose end in your third age, you could go back to university

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

AT SOME point, let's just call it 'the future', society is going to stop treating retired people like old fruit. Right now it can't work out what use...

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Celebrating Swallows and Amazons and the man who made it all so real

Celebrating  Swallows and Amazons and the man who made it all so real

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

I HAVE a guilty secret, and despite finding myself in the very situation in which it would be wise to keep my own counsel, I tell it to the very first...

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If you know what you like perhaps it's time to explore the finer things in life

If you know what you like perhaps it's time to explore the finer things in life

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

I DON'T know about you, but I am the sort of person who, upon finding myself in an art gallery, is inclined to make straight for the famous ones, to...

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Sheer scale of sky at night makes you feel utterly insignificant (in a good way)

Sheer scale of sky at night makes you feel  utterly insignificant (in a good way)

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

ANOTHER clear sky above Torbay's peaceful Thursday night streets. Not one single whisp of cloud spoils the perfect blanket of depthless black void...

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Zeb the chocolate Labrador steals the show despite not being best in class

Zeb the chocolate Labrador steals the show despite not being best in class

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

TO SOME people, ringcraft is what boxers who don't lose very often have. To others it means something quite different altogether. It still involves...

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