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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 Copenhagen – Final Part – Noma next time

Trish Burgess Posted on02/05/201107/04/2016 Copenhagen, Denmark 19 Comments

 The adolescent Merman  Getting lost can often be a good thing. We decided to return to the city centre via a different train station, Hellerup, as the Bodyworlds exhibition (see Part Three) was

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Mum’s Gone to Copenhagen – Part Three – Bodyworlds

Trish Burgess Posted on30/04/201107/04/2016 Copenhagen, Denmark 19 Comments

On city breaks there never seems enough time to travel into the suburbs. However on this trip we decided to miss seeing some of the main sights in order to visit Gunther van Hagens’ Bodyworlds

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Mum’s Gone to Copenhagen – Part Two – Danes just wanna have fun.

Trish Burgess Posted on28/04/201107/04/2016 Copenhagen, Denmark 14 Comments

Nyhavn – harbour in Copenhagen After the odd sleeping arrangements of the previous night (see last post ) we were grateful to be back together again for breakfast. The number of families with small children in

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Mum’s Gone to Copenhagen – Part One – Cock up in Camelot

Trish Burgess Posted on26/04/201128/12/2016 Copenhagen, Denmark 22 Comments

Bedroom, Hotel Kong Arthur, Copenhagen I had good vibes about Denmark from the outset. Their language for starters. A country which has the word Hej (pronounced Hi) for hello, Hej Hej (Hi Hi) for goodbye

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Anyone for pickled penis?

Trish Burgess Posted on17/04/201107/04/2016 Iceland 17 Comments

I had to smile over my morning cuppa today when I turned to the back page of the News Review of the Sunday Times. Iceland’s Phallological Museum, which we visited in 2007, has, at long

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My Perfect Cousin

Trish Burgess Posted on15/04/201107/04/2016 Lucky Dip 12 Comments

John and Rory April 2011  One little boy is 15 weeks old and one big boy is 15 years old but they are both adorable to me. You may remember my nephew John was

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My mum singing Habanera from Carmen, 1959

Trish Burgess Posted on12/04/201119/12/2018 Carmen, Habanera, Musical Theatre/Am dram/Entertainment, Tyne Tees 27 Comments

On last week’s gallery I talked about how proud I was of my mum and mentioned that she had sung an aria from Carmen on the first night of Tyne Tees Television in January 1959. Some

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You’d have to be mad to nominate me…

Trish Burgess Posted on11/04/201129/06/2017 9 Comments

  As a parent blogger I’m aware that it’s time for nominations for The Mads, the awards for the best in mum and dad blogs. I wouldn’t ordinarily put my head above the parapet and

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