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Continue reading →: Jane Austen In BathAll this week the 2011 Jane Austen Festival has been celebrated in the city of Bath in Somerset, England. Hundreds of Jane Austen fans and aficionados dressed in Regency costume kicked off the opening last weekend with a promenade through the streets of Bath. It’s the 11th year that the…
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Continue reading →: Celebrating Charles DickensToday people in the UK are celebrating the 200th birthday of the great author Charles Dickens. Dickens himself explained an aspect of his ingenious creative process when he said: An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. Mr. Dickens Collects Speaking of…
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Continue reading →: Puffin Power: The ‘Clowns Of The Sea’It took not one but two specially dedicated bird trips until my husband David and I saw hundreds if not thousands of puffins – in the air, on the land, in the water, standing on cliff tops, hanging out in droves on top of rooftops – anywhere we looked that…






