Will somebody explain to me the difference between any town in the north of England covered by a marauding ash cloud and the same northern town round November? Apart from the fact it probably goes dark earlier in Wigan in November. The BBC isn’t talking about Eyjafjallajoekull, but the other angry sister to Katla – [...]
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A Right Royal (Claret & Blue) Do; and Obama Visits a College
Posted on 12, Feb
The year’s around 1980-ish and I’m ten; and Prince Charles was visiting Burnley General for some reason or other. I remember a teacher walking into our classroom and saying we’d been chosen or offered a number of invites (read: kiddies to pad out the throngs) to gleefully cheer our next trophy-eared King. Being the fair-minded [...]
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