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Guest Blog by Paula .J. Roscoe

Guest Blog by Paula .J. Roscoe

Review at your Pleasure… We’ve all done it. Bought something online and then the dreaded email arrives asking us to ‘review your product’. We hate them. We quickly delete and forget about them…Until a week goes by and there is a ‘reminder to review your product’! GO AWAY! I do not want to ‘review’ the dog’s tablets, which, frankly, I cannot answer because it is for THE DOG!!! Also don’t want to review the dress I bought or the glue I had to order because no local shop had it in stock. Likewise the paint, the small screw or the…

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Guest Blog by Paula Roscoe

Guest Blog by Paula Roscoe

10 Things you may want to know about Ghosts By P.J. Roscoe Okay, I know ‘Halloween’ has passed when everyone goes spook mad, but we thought you’d like a snippet of information regardless…? There are different types of ‘ghost’. A ‘Ghost’ or ‘residual haunting’ is a replay, a moving photo that has no consciousness. It does not know you are there, hence sometimes, they will move right through you if you’re in their path. A spirit is you and me; we have consciousness, feelings, thoughts and actions and will act accordingly. These spirits are interacting with you and me when…

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A light-hearted history of Bonfire Night  

A light-hearted history of Bonfire Night  

Bonfire Night will soon be with us all again. Would you like to know the origins of this eventful night? The historic origins of Bonfire Night date to the conflict between virtually outlawed Catholics and the Protestant establishment of the 16th and early 17th century. On November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes (the real one, not the stuffed variety) and a group of Catholic conspirators who felt badly treated by the King put 36 barrels of gunpowder in a cellar underneath the Houses of Parliament. (Not a bad idea, do I hear you say?) Some of those involved in the plot…

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Truth behind the Nursery Rhymes we grew up with.

Truth behind the Nursery Rhymes we grew up with.

Jack and Jill went up the hill  To fetch a pail of water;Jack fell down and broke his crownAnd Jill came tumbling after. The small village of Kilmersdon in north Somerset, England, claims to be the origin of the Jack and Jill nursery rhyme. Local legend recalls how in the late 15th century, a young unmarried couple regularly climbed a nearby hill in order to conduct their secret dating  away from the prying eyes of the village. Jill became pregnant, but just before the baby was born Jack was killed by a rock that had fallen from their ‘special’ hill….

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Truth behind the Nursery Rhymes we grew up with.

Truth behind the Nursery Rhymes we grew up with.

This not so innocent rhyme is said to be a rather sinister play on words based on the dreadful pain and suffering caused to so many people during the Great Plague. The ring of roses was the red rash that was often one of the first signs of this terrible disease.             A posy of herbs was thought to bring protection against the disease because one belief was that warding off bad smells in the towns would defend against it.             Once the sneezing and coughing began they formed the final fatal symptoms.because it was believed the ill person would…

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Truth behind the Nursery Rhymes we grew up with.

Truth behind the Nursery Rhymes we grew up with.

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;All the king’s horses and all the king’s menCouldn’t put Humpty together again What might surprise you is that Humpty Dumpty was neither an egg nor a person. It was actually a huge siege cannon used during the English Civil War (1642-1651) by Royalist forces. It was hoisted up the church tower of St Mary- at-the-Walls and there he sat for eleven weeks firing away at the Roundheads who were attacking the town. Poor Humpty was finally blown up by the Roundheads and disappeared in the deep surrounding marshlands from…

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