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Mum’s Gone to see Bouncers and Shakers

Trish Burgess Posted on22/10/201007/04/2016 Musical Theatre/Am dram/Entertainment 4 Comments

A double-bill at Spalding’s South Holland Centre this week is one not to miss. Local amateur group, St Nicolas Players, have brought the 1980s back to life with Bouncers by John Godber and Shakers Re-stirred

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Mum’s Gone to a hotel or a villa?

Trish Burgess Posted on19/10/201007/04/2016 Lucky Dip 5 Comments

Here’s my guest post which was published last week on Pure Lanzarote.com. I thought I’d pop it on here too and change it just a little. I’d also found some lovely photos of Rory on holiday over the

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This week I will be mostly wearing…

Trish Burgess Posted on15/10/201007/04/2016 Iceland 7 Comments

….THIS! Don’t you just love it? I won this in a competition on the Facebook page of the Iceland Today website. I could have won a whale-watching trip (please God, not again),  a woolly jumper or even

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The Gallery – Favourite Photo – Iceland

Trish Burgess Posted on13/10/201028/12/2016 Iceland, The gallery 16 Comments

For Tara’s Gallery this week we have to choose our favourite photo. For me, it had to be this one, Thingvellir in Iceland, for a variety of reasons. The Geography The great fault line at

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Life’s Rich Tapestry

Trish Burgess Posted on11/10/201007/04/2016 Book reviews 11 Comments

It’s a funny old thing, Facebook. Not long ago it reconnected me with my second cousin , Toni, a blogger whose posts I had already been reading. Expat Mum and I eventually met up and our mums are now picking up

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Here Come the Girls – Miss Italia

Trish Burgess Posted on06/10/201007/04/2016 The gallery 27 Comments

This is an entry for Tara Cain’s The Gallery, the theme this week is “Here Come the Girls”. Summer 2009, a fantastic holiday on Lake Garda, staying in the town of Bardollino. The favourite night

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Louis, can I be in your Over 28s?

Trish Burgess Posted on04/10/201007/04/2016 Musical Theatre/Am dram/Entertainment 21 Comments

Okay, brace yourselves. Here’s me, at the charity concert in Broad Street Methodist Church in Spalding on Saturday. “Broadway to Broad Street” had songs from the shows including Les Miserables, The Best Little Whorehouse in

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Cooking a curry with The Nearly Naked Chef

Trish Burgess Posted on01/10/201007/04/2016 Musical Theatre/Am dram/Entertainment 13 Comments

My husband, Dougie, is a quiet man, reserved, not one for small talk. Put him in the audience for a stand-up comedian, however, and suddenly he comes to life. You know those idiots who always

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