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Breaking barriers in the Jazz Age
Reading Time: 5 minutes Those who sail close to the shore never discover new lands’. How true. The French writer, Andre Gide, wrote this in1925. Like many writers of the time, Gide was breaking with the conventions and restrictions of society. It was the Jazz Age.
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Down the Rabbit Hole and Up a Tree
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are whole worlds to explore in the diverging tunnels of the rabbit hole. It’s so called in reference to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland when she followed the scurrying white rabbit down his burrow.
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Whispering through Time
Reading Time: 4 minutes Although I am a math and science teacher, I have had to write a few things in my time. So, I started to write about Winifred one rainy February afternoon in 2019. I only had a school exercise book with me, no computer, so it was a little arduous and scribbly at first. But I kept going for the week despite my husband’s lack of encouragement.
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The Double Life of Anne Neill
Reading Time: 5 minutes The double life of Anne Neill only goes to prove you never know who is watching who? Churchgoing, Anne Neill, a middle-aged widow from the suburbs of Adelaide, was also a secret agent.
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How a bridge of hope united a city
Reading Time: 5 minutes In the1930s, families in Sydney, Australia suffered like most worldwide. But one thing gave hope to hundreds if not thousands of Sydneysiders. It was the building of The Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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Fierce, focused women still fighting.
Reading Time: 4 minutes In celebration of International Women’s Day, we need to be fierce and focused as a united team of female warriors. We need to be kind to other women first. No bitching, please! Kindness matters.
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Does Life Sometimes Feel like Groundhog Day?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you wish you could have a Groundhog Day? Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have some days we could replay, so we could get it right? Or would it?
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Was it women and children first?
Reading Time: 6 minutes As panic rose about the fate of the damaged Titanic, crew started to load the lifeboats whilst maintaining the creed of ‘Women and children first.’ But of those saved only 53% were women or children. What went wrong?
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Dodging Life’s Bullets and the occasional iceberg.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our journey through life is like navigating a mine field without a map warning us where the dangers are. But if we are aware that the ‘best laid plans of mice and men can often go astray’ we can stay focused and positive.
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Why is it called Valentine’s Day?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Who was Valentine and why is February 14th called Valentine’s Day? Good question for all those who rush off to buy cards and chocolates in celebration of this annual day of ‘love and lovers.’ Stay tuned, I’ll try to unpack a few facts to enlighten you.
