Hands Off My Baubles

Nutcracker

There is something about reaching the end of the year and knowing that Christmas is around the corner that leads to a maelstrom of emotional reaction. There is an overwhelming urge to ensure that the elements that are conjured from a mainly half-forgotten childhood be recreated and then the driving psychopathic urge to share it …

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Bad Santa Bauble

Nativity

Scene One There was great pressure in the run up to Christmas at school. A convent education leads inevitable to an ability to create a nativity scene using nothing more than a shoe box, marker pen, tape and cotton wool. Having something of an artistic turn, the shoe box and occupant creations were not too …

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Bad Santa Bauble

Hats Over Christmas

As part of my Business Enterprise Allowance I was doing a day course in bookkeeping (not dependent upon obtaining the remittance, but I thought what could be more useful for a lady of enterprise). The lady who was conducting the course whose name was Nancy and possibly Williams was wearing a rather lovely pencil skirt, …

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Picture of "Gentlemen & Players"

The WomanKad

My earliest memories of cricket take me back to when I was at school. Unusually for a girls’ school we had a cricket team. One of the girls’ fathers, known to us as Roopey, had been a county player. Roopey was our sponsor and also our coach. Most of the time we played other local …

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Simon’s Things

Junky hires a magician to cast away his demon… ends up dead in a burning circle of white powder. Scratch humour Claire was about to move house and city when she came across the box with Simon’s things in the cupboard under the stairs Claire, who was no longer in theatre, had met Simon through …

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