
Memoir of a Sunderland coalfield, childhood, and adventures in flowers.
Ron Dixon was born the son of a Sunderland miner and grew up to the sights and sounds of a World at War, dreading a full moon because that meant that the German bombers would come and that he would be
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As a youngster I can remember tramping through woods, climbing trees and inevitably getting stung by nettles.
I can also remember the advice given by fellow adventurers,”find a docken leaf and rub it over the sting, it’ll make it go away”.
I can also remember trying the remedy and eleviating the pain, but never knew whether it was
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A novel originally published in 1928 was not published here in Britain until thirty two years later, and then it caused a storm throughout the courts.
It has been later revealed the that the story came from events in the authors own unhappy domestic life from which he took inspiration from happenings that occurred in a village in
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The Real Story Of The Clash – Passion is a Fashion
One of my greatest passions has always been music. I have always been eclectic in taste and over the years have met some of its greatest contributors.
Never thinking as a teenager that I would ever meet meet with heroes of the musical world when I was growing up (The Crickets) I can now proudly relate that one of the founder members Sonny Curtis has
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If you’re a budding photographer and also have a great interest in wildlife, then a brand new publication by an expert in both fields could keep you fascinated for hours. Heather Angel is a British biologist and award-winning wildlife photographer who travel from the poles to the tropics taking wildlife images, although in recent years she has concentrated on China.Her passion for nature culminated in a zoology degree at Bristol University.Whilst working as a marine biologist
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