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Cultural Life Environment Reminiscence Transitions

A timely, contributed poem

LarryWinger
January 19, 2020
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I’m so delighted to provide Marjorie Anderson space for her lovely poem, a piece of work that set our Creative Writing class a-tingle last term. This poem, for me, develops the whole sense of the year ahead, and the year…

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In-Between Times Transitions

New projects for the coming year . . .

LarryWinger
January 1, 2020
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There’s a variety of new ideas floating around these valleys, some of which may come to fruition in the new year ahead. If they do, then the work begun this year will have laid the foundation for those projects of…

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Communications Community Education Organisation Reminiscence Transitions

Allen Valleys Local History Group

LarryWinger
November 15, 2019
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Yesterday evening I spent an intriguing hour with the Local History Group as Paul Mingard explained the fascinating story of some old glass plate negatives delivered over a decade ago into the hands of Margaret Stonehouse, then District Councillor. I…

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Anecdote Cultural Life Transitions

The Joy of Editing

LarryWinger
November 4, 2019
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I don’t come by editing naturally. Rather, I fall in love with the words as they emerge, and feel loathe to mess with them thereafter. Always have done. But I learned, as a graduate student in the biomedical sciences, that…

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Transitions

Some thoughts on domestic finances

LarryWinger
October 23, 2019
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Sure, it was hard in our day, but I wonder if it was quite as hard for us, then, as it is for young struggling families nowadays? I thought, since we do try to consider those parts of a year…

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Business Tourism Transitions

The Garden Station, Langley

LarryWinger
September 19, 2019
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These Allen Valleys, East and West, are blessed with the most idiosyncratic, and lovely, places for events. And sometimes, because the places are so fetching, the events grow up around them. Something like that has happened at The Garden Station,…

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Event Healthy Living Tourism Transitions

Bank Holiday Monday

LarryWinger
August 26, 2019
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We drove back from Yorkshire yesterday after a week of interesting workshops to stimulate our brains, and on the way home we marvelled at the delight of folks enjoying the sunshine in all the towns and villages on our journey….

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Community Event In-Between Times Transitions

The August Bank Holiday Weekend

LarryWinger
August 25, 2019
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It’s the last holiday weekend before school, isn’t it? So what’s everybody doing, I wonder? I went to Allendale area notices on Facebook a week ago and asked! Not overwhelmed with responses, but a few came in. Someone is going…

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Anecdote Healthy Living Transitions

Just cheerfully pottering about . . .

LarryWinger
August 2, 2019
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I think I’m getting more used to the retirement lifestyle. Instead of filling our days in a rather frenzied rush to accomplish all the tasks we’d set for ourselves, we’ve retrenched, with a longer schedule pushed further and further ahead,…

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Farming Transitions Travel Weather

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days . . .

LarryWinger
July 26, 2019
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. . . .of summer! Maybe even when the torrential rains and thunderstorms come, as they did Tuesday evening, dramatically, maybe even then it’ll still be summer. It’s a dreadful weekend predicted, so much so that the Lions Golf Classic…

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