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What was the Frogmoor fountain really like?
Posted on 6:53pm Saturday 17th December 2011
Would you like to see, in colour, what the Frogmoor fountain was like?
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Save time and money with an e-Christmas card
Posted on 8:13pm Thursday 15th December 2011
Maybe e-Christmas cards are a good idea after all.
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Memories of Christmas past: Preparing for Christmas
Posted on 7:50pm Tuesday 13th December 2011
Today I would like to reminisce on the preparations for a traditional Christmas of yesteryear.
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The Twelve Moods of Christmas
Posted on 11:00am Monday 12th December 2011
Another seasonal offering... From girlish anticipation to murderous hysteria, this is how it goes (for me)
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The buildings of Wycombe: 4 High Street
Posted on 8:20pm Saturday 10th December 2011
This week I am featuring a building that has been adapted to various uses over the last hundred years.
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When shopping becomes annoying
Posted on 7:44pm Thursday 8th December 2011
There are circumstances when doing shopping can be extremely annoying.
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Top tips to save money this Christmas
Posted on 7:38pm Tuesday 6th December 2011
I would like to share some money saving ideas to you help cut the cost of Christmas.
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Things not to get me for Christmas
Posted on 6:00pm Sunday 4th December 2011
Two lists from someone wishing they lived in a non-Christian country…
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The Economist, The FT & Monty Burns
Posted on 1:00pm Tuesday 6th December 2011
Many a good blog has been triggered by the stuff I read from journalists in (what they perceive as) the "real world". None more so than the daily ramblings of The Economist and The Financial Times. I have no particular reason to single them out. If I were in the USA I could have been talking about the Wall Street Journal. What I see there is the world from the viewpoint of a constituency of wealth, privilege and power. How the world must look through their eyes? Oh for a minute in their shoes - and I am by no means a poor man nor a lefty. But it makes you wonder...
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Risk & returns
Posted on 12:50pm Monday 5th December 2011
What do YOU find risky? Why is it that we find home, life and car insurance so normal yet can't be bothered to mitigate risk arising from energy-use, economic bubbles and climate change? Maybe we are being silly? I was wondering whether Transitioners are over-estimating risk and trying to make High Wycombe too safe. What would we lose in more resilient communities? Afterall, without risk there are no returns...
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The perfect wife and mother, Rebecca runs a home, a bad temper and is working on her novel. She enjoys photography, playing the piano and likes almost anything that's out of fashion and uncool. She lives in Amersham with her husband and youngest child (aged ten). Her eldest, now 27, lives and works in Buckinghamshire.
