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Trish Burgess

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Lincolnshire, UK
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne. Read geography at Cambridge University. Now living in South Lincolnshire, UK.
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Mum’s gone to the Park Plaza, Westminster Bridge

Trish Burgess Posted on22/10/201228/12/2016 London 20 Comments

“I agree, it’s a fabulous room but I think it’s going to be noisy.” “Why do you say that?” “Well, we’re on the first floor, right above the bar and they have live music there

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Half-term holiday plans: Suffolk

Trish Burgess Posted on17/10/201216/09/2016 Suffolk 26 Comments

As usual, in our discussions regarding where to go for half term, we travelled the virtual globe before ending up at a location two hours from where we live. We very soon discounted going abroad, mainly because

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The Sound of Silence

Trish Burgess Posted on15/10/201216/09/2016 Musical Theatre/Am dram/Entertainment 23 Comments

I’m sure you’ve all been waiting for an update on this weekend’s charity concert. No? Well, you’re getting one anyway. When I last blogged about our gigs, I told you that our esteemed musical director,

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Sweden’s Stonehenge – Ales Stenar

Trish Burgess Posted on12/10/201216/09/2016 Sweden 17 Comments

If you’ve been watching ‘Vikings’ on BBC Two, you will have seen the presenter, Neil Oliver: a modern day Braveheart, all Scottish brogue and wild, flowing locks. Did you hear him mention the stone ships of

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Oh Happy Day….not!

Trish Burgess Posted on04/10/201216/09/2016 Musical Theatre/Am dram/Entertainment 23 Comments

The last time I wrote about our concerts, we had done one gig at a local Women’s Institute which had gone down very well and we were about to sing at a local church, together with the

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Mum’s gone to The MADS

Trish Burgess Posted on30/09/201216/09/2016 MAD Blog awards 50 Comments

Clockwise from top left:  1. The room in the Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel, Bloomsbury Street, with much tweeting going on. 2. My buddies on Table 12: Leanna (Diary of a Premmy Mum) and Lucy (Lulastic and the

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The Hills are Alive…

Trish Burgess Posted on19/09/201216/09/2016 Musical Theatre/Am dram/Entertainment 35 Comments

As regulars here will know, my am dram performances often pepper this blog. It’s a while since I’ve been in an actual show, my last being The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in 2010 which was

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When Rory met Ronnie

Trish Burgess Posted on17/09/201229/06/2017 Sweden, Ystad 35 Comments

“Is that Quincy Jones on the next table?” “No, looks nothing like him.” “Hang on, I’ll google him…..no, doesn’t look anything like him, but it must be him.” “It isn’t!” “It must be!” This three-way

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