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HAVE YOU A STORY ABOUT YOUR FIRST TIME ABROAD? 23 April 2002 |
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This
is another feature for WOMAN and once again you do get PAID for appearing
in the article. This one is about the first time you went abroad. Maybe
it was on a school trip with all your class, or one of those language
exchange trips, or inter-railing before you went to college, a week
in the sun with your mates or just the family holiday. Or maybe it was
your honeymoon, camping abroad as kids, you’ve got relatives, who
live abroad, or maybe you’ve just been abroad for the first time
recently. But I’m sure you’ve got your own experience. What
we are looking for this light-hearted piece is your memories of how
different it is going abroad - the unusual food, weird drinks, trying
to make yourself understood, those bizarre ‘hole in the ground’
loos, getting about on local transport, odd hotels - I’m sure you’ve
got an amusing angle on what you first thought when you went abroad
whether you were five or 65! If you can help, please email me or call
me on 01273 777693. Please feel free to circulate my details to anyone
who might also be able to help. All the feature will involve is a quick
chat on the phone and we will need a snap-style photo of you on that
holiday. The photos will be returned safely.
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DO YOU KNOW ABOUT BUTLER'S END - COOKHAM DEAN? 21 April 2002 |
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I am
doing some research on my family history, and wonder if any one in
Cookham Dean can give me |
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THE BLUEBELLS ARE OUT AT CLIVEDEN 7 April 2002 |
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HERRIES HELPS THE HEDGEHOGS 20 March 2002 |
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The
children of Herries sucessfully installed hedgehog hibernation boxes
in
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VILLAGE TOASTMASTER 16 March 2002 |
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Dear Village Crier: Here you have an old village resident who now lives some eight hours west of you on the Island of Vancouver in the provincial capital of Victoria. Myhome is overlookingthe outer harbour and the Straits of Juan de Fucaand the Olympia Mountains of Washington State and the USA.
Besides my "Toastmaster" activities I am now a small publisher of a series of English grammar booklets, which are not only being sold in bookstores in Canada, but in some 25 Canadian universities.
Please take a look at our website; www.punctuationtips.com and if anyone has any questions, please write to the author, Deborah Wright at: author@punctuationtips.com Yours sincerely,
James Hatch |
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HAPPY ST DAVID'S DAY 1 March 2002 |
One of our readers has sent a photo of his grandchildren taken today St David's Day, before they went to school. St David is the patron saint of Wales. |
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WHAT DOES YOUR CHILD HAVE FOR SCHOOL DINNERS? 21 February 2002 |
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What does your child have for school dinner? It’s another one for the magazine WOMAN and should be quite a fun one. It’s about what children eat for their school dinners. What we want to do is talk to six or so mums about what their child eats for dinner at school. We then want to talk to our resident nutritional expert to explain in the article what is in typical school dinner food. Ideally we want to speak to mums who have children aged 7 or 8, and we are looking for a good spread- maybe your son/daughter is really fussy, is a vegetarian, is a ‘good-eater’ and will try anything. For helping out you get PAID a small sum, have your photos taken for the magazine (which you get to keep afterwards) and have the fun of appearing in the country’s best-selling women’s weekly magazine. Please feel free to circulate my details either by email or on the notice board, and you can contact me at 01273 777693 or email adrian@amonti.freeserve.co.uk |
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THE COOKHAM GHOST-AN UPDATE: 4 January 2002 |
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The person who works at
the Odney Club says "I myself have seen this lady that looks like
a servant woman and a couple of other people who I work with also say
they have seen her. |
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A COOKHAM GHOST-CAN YOU HELP?: 30 December 2001 |
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Someone who is currently
working for the John Lewis Partnership at the Odney Club, Odney Lane,
in Cookham says "I live at "the Grove" in Odney Lane
and wondered if anyone had any information on this house as there have
been several sightings of a servant woman dressed in what appears to
be Victorian period clothes. Rumours are that the original house
burned down and servants were trapped on the top floor. Pam Knight has given us this information about the Grove: The previous house called The Grove was much larger and closer to the river and (without having any info. here to check at this moment) I believe it burned down in the early 1920's and was rebuilt a few years later, as it now appears, by John Lewis. The site was probably part of the old Cirencester Abbey holding at the Conquest, and was probably occupied at least as far back as the Anglo-Saxon period, so is steeped in history. |
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Hear ye Hear ye! The Crier is always looking for things to shout about! Feel free to submit your Thoughts, Poems, Requests or anything you like to thecrier@cookham.com |
Why
not visit the woods round Cliveden in the next few days, it is quite
breathtaking. The blossom is out along with primroses, celandines, ground
ivy, germander speedwell and carpets of bluebells. You can park in the
Woodland car park and have a really enjoyable walk in the woods.
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