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Ancient Guardian person - retired Easter Sunday & now living happily ever after. Please buy my recent 'The English Village' and 'True North' for all birthdays
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@dentonmartin actually I'm almost completely idle and its lovely. Specially if others chose the Bedside pieces for me...
Meanwhile I hope that the sun shines on you and yours and that all your Bank Holiday wishes come true. X M
...anything has LEAPT out at you since October (from any arm of the mighty octopus), I'd be ever so grateful if you could send me a link
Dear Tweeties! Here is a lovely idea for your Bank Holiday: I have got to edit the 2013 Bedside Guardian (anthology of the year) and if...
High street blight: are pound shops better than empty shops? gu.com/p/3g48b/tw via @guardian. Interesting take on the Nrtherner
High street blight: are pound shops better than empty shops?
guardian.co.uk — The north-west of England has the highest number of empty shop units in the UK, and as big retailers leave our town centres, the kind of businesses that thrive in hard times are moving in. Town centres across the region are becoming swamped with payday lenders, pawnbrokers and pound shops.
Country diary: Crook, County Durham: Read all about Phil's mites... gu.com/p/3g2mq/tw via @guardian
I've often seen bees infested with mites, but rarely one so heavily laden
guardian.co.uk — Bumblebees still foraged on the blackcurrant blossom, even though the afterglow of sunset was beginning to fade. One, a queen Bombus pratorum, fell from a truss of flowers and landed almost at my feet, brushing her legs over her furry back as if to rid herself of some irritation.
Paint it red: artists find new life in Cumbria's disused iron ore mine gu.com/p/3g3x8/tw via @guardian Northern twist on cochineal ?
Paint it red: artists find new life in west Cumbria's disused iron ore mine
guardian.co.uk — In 2008, after nearly 200 years of toil, Florence Mine in Egremont, Cumbria, the last deep iron ore mine in western Europe, closed. Its 'Red Men' - the name given to the miners as they always were always coated in the ore's fine red dust - hung up their pickaxes.
guardian.co.uk/uk/the-norther…. Tyneside leads the field and our Sarah is at the heart of it all
Thinking Digital gets underway for 2013
guardian.co.uk — Thinking Digital is a placemark in the calendar for many working in the technology and creative sectors and has helped put the north east on the map for innovative digital activity. Yesterday was taken up with masterclasses for delegates but today the formal conference gets underway.
Letters To Fiesta – New Band Up North #27 gu.com/p/3fqag/tw via @guardian Emily heads for 30
Letters To Fiesta - New Band Up North #27
guardian.co.uk — Manchester four-piece Letters To Fiesta are making electro-pop with streams of hysteria running through its veins. Anna-Louisa Etherington fronts the band, and it's her energetic, urgent, volatile vocal range that makes you stop and listen.
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