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  • I thnk I need to ramble, might not post it at the end.

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    Hello Wims, I won't say how are you as according to that nice lady we went to see the other day you are well now and looking good again - muscles as big as Dan's eh?  Sounds like you have regained your youth, of for those days again my love. 

    Meantime your dad has lost all his muscle, he is wasting away as you did, he's no longer the man we all knew and looked up to, we have lost that lovely man and his quick…

  • October continues at Tanglewood

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    Thought I should let you read the next bit - sorry had forgotten to post it!  This one is a bit long.

      October – to the holidays.
     
    It was raining, the late Indian summer had gone and the weather had suddenly turned colder.  The two Canadian Maple trees, that stood either side of the main entrance gate, looked beautiful last week; their deep red leaves had been a lovely splash of colour on the trees and along the…
  • The next bit

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    Harvest festival and half term holidays.
     

    “So, for whom are we gathering our harvest gifts together?” Natalie asked Ben Cross, five  years old and looking like an angel with white blond hair and big blue eyes, he looked thoughtful for a moment and then replied in a crystal-clear voice,

    “The baby Jesus, Miss?”  The whole class exploded with laughter, Ben crumpled into tears. 

    “No, no, not the…
  • Chapter One (well part of it, not sure how much will go on here

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    Chapter One – September/Back to School.
     
    Although the best of the summer flowers were over, the hanging baskets and tubs at the entrance to Tanglewood County Primary School were still a bright splash of colour, glorying in the warm sunshine of early September.  Pupils and staff had joined together to make the school bright and cheerful to all those approaching and had been rewarded with the second place in the…
  • Tanglewood

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    "Ladies, we are to have a male amongst us!" Eyes that were only moments before closing in the humid air flew open in surprise and a general shuffle and murmur ensued.  They were all aware that a couple of men had been interviewed for the post, but no one had expected this all female bastion to be allowed the dubious pleasure of being broached. 

    Helen North, head teacher at Tanglewood primary school smiled having…