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Guest Post: A Visit to the Dull Pantomime

Trish Burgess Posted on13/06/201309/08/2016 Guest post 21 Comments

Last week I told you all about the town of Bland which was keen to join Dull and Boring to form a new triangle of tedium. It was a simple enough post, I could have

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Dull, Boring….and Bland.

Trish Burgess Posted on08/06/201309/08/2016 Lucky Dip 15 Comments

Do you remember when I was visiting Scotland at Easter I mentioned we had visited the little village of Dull which had recently been paired with the town of Boring in Oregon? (The link is

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Book review: Road to Rouen by Ben Hatch

Trish Burgess Posted on06/06/201309/08/2016 Book reviews 7 Comments

Those of you who follow me on Twitter will know that my bio says “Modelling myself on Bill Bryson…minus the beard”. Having just read Road to Rouen, I’m tempted to change this to “Modelling myself

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Coming back down to earth

Trish Burgess Posted on03/06/201309/08/2016 BritMums Travel Round-up 20 Comments

I’ve been in a very strange parallel world over recent weeks. Rehearsing and performing has taken priority over blogging. I haven’t written very much and have been a haphazard reader of blogs too. Half-term came

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Ooh I am pleased…

Trish Burgess Posted on29/05/201309/08/2016 Musical Theatre/Am dram/Entertainment 23 Comments

Our week’s run of Acorn Antiques, The Musical, came to an end on Saturday night, to huge cheers, plenty of applause and a great many aching jaws from excessive laughing. The South Holland Centre in

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Who is this woman imitating Julie Walters?

Trish Burgess Posted on17/05/201328/12/2016 Musical Theatre/Am dram/Entertainment 28 Comments

Our local paper, the Spalding Guardian, ran a competition last week to win tickets to see our show, Acorn Antiques – The Musical. To accompany the piece was this delightful photograph of me, Miss Berta, Miss Babs

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Art comes to Holbeach with Transported

Trish Burgess Posted on11/05/201309/08/2016 Lucky Dip 14 Comments

  Miracoco Luminarium  In a weekend which saw the demise of the Spalding Flower Parade, at least in its current form, it was somewhat bittersweet to be present at the launch of a new initiative

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The Gallery – The Weekend – Spalding Flower Parade

Trish Burgess Posted on08/05/201311/09/2024 Lincolnshire, Spalding, The gallery 46 Comments

Float for the Flower Queen and her attendants It was the end of an era for Spalding this weekend. The 55th and final Flower Parade was cheered through the town centre: more than 30,000 people

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