Archives – 2012 – January – 25  

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Old Fountain, Old Street
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One of the pubs unfortunately missed from our ‘tween christmas and new year pub crawl, for to because it was shut, partly due I suspect to lack of passing trade over the festive period, but also to finish off their very nice renovation work, Th[…]

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William Mayne (1928-2010): or what if the greatest* 20th-century children’s author were to present us with an intractable moral knot?
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(*in the English language since I read no others)
The disgraced children’s author William Mayne died in 2010, some 57 years after the publication of Follow the Footprints, the first of his more than a hundred books, none of them for adults. A f[…]

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