25 September 2005

It's Autumn

Last of this year's sunflowers! Read more →

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01 September 2005

Back in a Flash!

South Tyneside Today reports: THE footballers of Harton & Westoe CW had a lucky escape last night when they left the pitch just before a lightning strike. Only seven minutes of their Wearside League game at New Marske on Teesside... Read more →

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09 August 2005

NUM Dawdon Lodge Banner

These wonderful photos were provided by Brendadada at Dawdon Read more →

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07 August 2005

Right Choice?

It was Anne's birthday last week. She provided her list. As usual it contained a couple of books including a biography of Che Guevara.Why Che Guevara? Her interest started when she saw that wonderful film of Walter Seles Diarios de... Read more →

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03 August 2005

Tall Ships

Perhaps it's a bit late. But better late......! Last week Newcastle hosted the last leg of the Tall Ships Race. The Quayside usually renowned for boozing and birds, saw these beauties tied up. All masts and rigging! It didn't take... Read more →

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18 July 2005

Northern Exposure

The North-East culture is not all Broon Ale and whippets. On Sunday this week, 1700 hundred threw away their clothes for a few hours to take part in American artist Spencer Tunick's intallation work. And before you ask, no, the... Read more →

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Breamish Valley

Within 30 minutes from the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne you can be in one of the last widernesses in England Read more →

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11 July 2005

Rambler's Legs.

Most of England feels like an oven door has been opened and the hot air has enveloped us all. If this is global warming I'm all for it! On the Coal Coast, the thermometer has been in the roaring twenties... Read more →

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28 October 2004

"Thirty Minutes for Buns"

If any one could bottle the aroma they could make a fortune. I’ve said that dozens on times as I’ve bought a couple of hundred grams of salami and some grana from the small Italian Deli a mile or so... Read more →

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21 October 2004

Roses And Revolutionaries

In 1992, an estate agent in Forest Hall, a suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, advertised for sale a nine- bed-roomed property, Earlington House, for the then not inconsiderable sum of £200,000. The house had served as a home for First... Read more →

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