…….later that afternoon when the sun had slipped lower the Master came out for a stroll in his lush gardens. Being so late in the season the trees were heavy with fruit and the air thick in natural fragrance. A small stream chuckled nearby as it flowed under the bridge. The hum of insects as [...]
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Lucky Passengers
I just love November and I think it is a lucky month. I saw a report moments ago in the news about a passenger plane from New Jersey that had to make an emergency landing in Poland after its landing gear failed to deploy. The reports said that none of the 220 passengers and 11 [...]
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The Meteorological office is warning that heavy snow and freezing temperatures are expected to continue for at least another two weeks. This follows Some of the heaviest snow fall in over 20 years. There has been heavy snow in the north-east of England and the Scottish borders, with reports of up to 30cm (12in) falling [...]
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affiliate program So I’m standing here again watching the world go by and everywhere there are chants of Out with the Old, In with the New! And I find that I am in agreement with all of them. 2009 was a non-year and it gave us nothing new or special. It was the year of [...]
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Like many other people I felt that so many megabytes and too many inches of newsprint had been dedicated to the story of – and the reactions to – the recent London Wedding that there was nothing more to add. But then I got a letter from my cousin Sui, a church pastor from a [...]
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” The opening line of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice There is a new truth today that is rapidly gaining acceptance in our digitally connected age. It is a truth that many will [...]
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With the ongoing credit crunch and rising prices it looks like the economy is set for really hard times ahead. Unemployment is rising as firms seek to cut costs and for those lucky to be in work there are only so many hours in the day and only so much overtime that one can do. [...]
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It has really been one of those summers. Rain, rain, sun, rain, and more rain. I now carry an umbrella as part of my essentials, along with my hay-fever medication, pain-killers, insect- repellant and joint lubricants. Imagine my surprise, basi last Thursday when the sun gave up being shy and came out from behind the [...]
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