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Blue notes

My first memory of the sea was more of a sparkle than a colour.  Apparently my mother swam all the year round in the benign waters of the Devon coast –  our garden sloped down to one of its red … Continue reading

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Duck Racing

Never completely successful at horse-racing, I decided to have a go with Ducks.  As everyone knows, Lyme Regis became famous for its Duck Races after Conger Coddling (involving a frozen dead eel – don’t ask) was banned.  Apparently Duck Racing, … Continue reading

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Castle life

A friend asked me to visit her.  She lives in one of the 16 or so apartments at Bamburgh Castle, on the north-east coast of England.  “Always take a hot water bottle when staying in a castle,” I’d been advised by another … Continue reading

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