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A Tale of Two Wippitts: Animal alphabet - P
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A Tale of Two Wippitts. The wonderful world of Archie and Angel! Thursday, 7 May 2015. Animal alphabet - P. And also for Penguins. We seem to have rather a lot of them. No, that is not the same as having too many. Never have too many penguins. A lot of penguins but only one whippet! 7 May 2015 at 10:57. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Animal alphabet - S. Animal alphabet - R. Election fever. And other stuff. Animal alphabet - P. Http:/ dogfriendlygardening.jimdo.com.
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A Tale of Two Wippitts: November 2014
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A Tale of Two Wippitts. The wonderful world of Archie and Angel! Monday, 24 November 2014. Has been a wet weekend, and we're not talking about the weather. Although that has been a bit wet too. No, what we are referring to is . Well, take a look at these two pictures. Can you tell the difference between them? We'll give you a clue. Look at the captions . Apart from being indoors in one and outside in the other, can you see any difference? See, it's just as we said. But she ignored us and still went ahead.
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A fool on a hill...: August 2015
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A fool on a hill. Sue Purkiss, writing (mainly) about books. Saturday, 29 August 2015. The Century Trilogy, by Ken Follett. First up, apologies for not having posted for such a long time. It's been a busy few weeks - particularly the bit where we had two nine year olds to stay! With not much time or head-space for writing blogs. The boxed set. (See how big they are? And there are a lot. What Follett does is to use the fortunes of these families as a vehicle for nothing less than relating the entire histo...
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A fool on a hill...: June 2015
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A fool on a hill. Sue Purkiss, writing (mainly) about books. Monday, 22 June 2015. Congratulations to Tanya Landman, winner of the 2015 Carnegie Medal! The Carnegie Medal is the big one for writers of children's books - the one we'd all like to win. (Well, we'd like to win any prize - but this one would be the cherry on anyone's cake! Tanya Landman earlier today at the Carnegie presentation. But to return to the book - I reviewed it not long after it first came out, and you can see that review here.
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A fool on a hill...: February 2015
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A fool on a hill. Sue Purkiss, writing (mainly) about books. Wednesday, 25 February 2015. Just a word first about that term, junior novels. They're sometimes called 'middle-grade' novels, and they are - very approximately - intended for 9-12 year olds. (Many of them could be, and are, enjoyed equally by adults - don't dismiss books because they happen to be on the children's shelves in the bookshop! And 'Young Adult' books even more so.). Fairy-tales do sometimes come true - don't they? This book is a ve...
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A fool on a hill...: January 2015
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A fool on a hill. Sue Purkiss, writing (mainly) about books. Friday, 23 January 2015. Trouble on Cable Street, by Joan Lingard. Anyone who was teaching English in the late 70s/early 80s - and probably after that - will remember the name of Joan Lingard. She wrote Across the Barricades. Concerns Isabella, whose mother is Spanish. She has two brothers. One has chosen to fight in the Spanish Civil War for the Republicans: the other, by contrast, is attracted by Oswald Mosley's increasingly powerful ...And a...
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A fool on a hill...: Liberty's Fire, by Lydia Syson
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A fool on a hill. Sue Purkiss, writing (mainly) about books. Tuesday, 26 May 2015. Liberty's Fire, by Lydia Syson. Like Lydia Syson's previous books, A World Between Us. And That Burning Summer. Liberty's Fire is set during the Paris Uprising of 1871, when the workers, starving and desperate after being besieged by the Prussians, declared that the people would govern the city through a Commune. It's a time about which I knew virtually nothing: after reading the book, I know a great deal more! The cloud h...
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A fool on a hill...: Marbeck and the Gunpowder Plot, by John Pilkington
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A fool on a hill. Sue Purkiss, writing (mainly) about books. Monday, 15 June 2015. Marbeck and the Gunpowder Plot, by John Pilkington. Before he took to writing novels, John Pilkington wrote television scripts and plays for radio and theatre. Clearly, he has used the skills he learnt there in creating his historical thrillers: they are tightly plotted and full of reversals and surprises, with cliffhangers which are - literally, in the case of some of the characters - to die for! 15 June 2015 at 03:57.
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A Tale of Two Wippitts: A trip to Narnia
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A Tale of Two Wippitts. The wonderful world of Archie and Angel! Saturday, 25 April 2015. A trip to Narnia. Alright, so we're not really at Narnia - it's one of the lamp posts at Chiltern Open Air Museum, but it seemed an appropriate setting to choose when posing with our visitor. Yes, we had a guest last week - none other than famous writer Susan Price. Two attempts and she still messed up. One of these days we will have to try and teach the Madwoman. How to compose a photo properly. Sue - we have racke...
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