Margaret Egrot

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Next Saturday, the 25th November, is Internat

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I’ve just purchased a Kindle copy of Mother Tongu

I had an eleven-year-old relative staying with me

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Songs have been written about them for centuries and we thought we knew what, or rather…

I’m just back from Finland, a beautiful country with many lakes to swim in, and to…

June was Pride Month and this weekend has seen Trans Pride in London and elsewhere. Along…

For many years a partner in a law firm in Coventry UK, Andrew has been a…

On occasion I act as a beta reader. I am currently beta reading the latest psychological…

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In March 1919, John Steinbeck wrote to Maralyn Monroe asking for a signed photograph ‘for his…

Maybe you have noticed I haven’t written a blog post for a few weeks. No? Ah…

Simon Armitage is the Poet Laureate – a post that is coveted more for the prestige…

Fact, it is often said, is stranger than fiction. Put another way – you couldn’t make…

Every adult in England and Wales knows about the 2021 Census, and the findings have been…

Gwyneth Paltrow has been in the news recently. Terry Sanderson, a retired optometrist, took her to…

I wrote in my last blog about the surprising amount of Latin that still influences everyday…