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Wanted: Stars in Cars
Posted on 1:03pm Sunday 20th May 2012
Readers of the South Bucks Star may be familiar with the “Me and My Motor” section towards the back pages. The Star is a free newspaper produced by the Bucks Free Press every Wednesday and distributed (at least in our neck of the woods) on a Thursday night. One day in January this year we spotted an appeal on Facebook by the “Me and My Motor” journalist Lawrence Dunhill for more people to tell him about their cars. So we thought: why not? So I penned the following request to local Transitioners:
ivor »
Wycombe from A-Z: E is for Easton Street
Posted on 1:52am Sunday 20th May 2012
This week my alphabet of Wycombe has reached the letter E for Easton Street.
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Mark Brown »
Pann Mill on the Rye, oh my
Posted on 6:03pm Saturday 19th May 2012
Pann Mill on the Rye in Wycombe has always held a special place in our affections. There is something very serendipitous about its position in our town’s culture. It represents something important. For us it has been a very natural home: a place where we discover both the local food economy AND local power generation all in one package.
ivor »
Wycombe needs more trees
Posted on 7:48pm Thursday 17th May 2012
I think its time we planted some more trees in Wycombe.
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ivor »
Look out, look out there's a pedestrian about
Posted on 7:50pm Tuesday 15th May 2012
Today I am examining the behaviour of pedestrians on the roads of Wycombe.
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Wycombe from A-Z: D is for Desborough Road
Posted on 9:38pm Saturday 12th May 2012
This week I am featuring Desborough Road for the letter D in my A to Z of Wycombe.
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Mark Brown »
The only garage on my street
Posted on 2:10pm Friday 11th May 2012
John hauled the ladder out of his garage. The only garage on his street. How things had changed. Surely November was not meant to be THIS warm? John is about to paint his house white. The last house in his road to be painted. John liked to be the last. He prided himself on being the stick-in-the-mud. After-all, at age 87 what other pleasures in life were there? He was born in 2012 where they didn’t have such nonsense.
Phil Makepeace »
Checking In to Round 2
Posted on 12:51pm Friday 11th May 2012
Bucks Megafinal hits Wycombe High tomorrow.
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Is it time to ban mobile phones?
Posted on 8:48pm Thursday 10th May 2012
Is there anything more annoying than a mobile phone ringing?
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Mark Brown »
The City that thinks it’s a Village
Posted on 3:28pm Thursday 10th May 2012
Jill returned home from her trip in the airship. It is November 2099. She sits up on the window sill to stare at the trees and gracefully-arcing wind turbines. She daydreams of winning that trip to Totnes – the cultural capital of Britain. All she has to do is write a really good essay on what life was like just 90 years before. She shudders… She had done the research and spent hours on the Bucks Free Press archive site. But it hadn’t been easy. She had not much liked what she had found. How to turn it into the needed essay? Maybe a letter? A letter to her own long-gone relatives? So she flicked open her EWallet-Phone and whispered the words “open file” and this is what she wrote:
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