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Its the way you tell them…..

On Friday I sat for a couple of hours along with other colleagues being entertained by Tim Rylands and Sarah Neild. The circus was in town and the time passed rapidly – too rapidly. About 50% of what they showed was … Continue reading

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Wintering out

‘He is wintering out the back end of a bad year, swinging a hurricane lamp through some outhouse’ Seamus Heaney: Servant Boy. In Northern Ireland, the phrase “to winter out” means “to see through and survive a crisis”. I do … Continue reading

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