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Charlene Raddon's Chatterblog: July 2014

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Monday, July 28, 2014. Saturday, July 26, 2014. Tuesday, July 22, 2014. I've lost my mind, no doubt about it. Yet I couldn't resist launching this new site for unique, custom and pre-made Blogger backgrounds and headers for every theme possible. You'll never see one of my backgrounds or headers on more than one blog site. Once a design is sold, it is removed from stock. These are one-owner creations of art. Check out Elegance Blog Design. Here are a few samples:. My own Elegance Blog Design page. I&#8217...

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Shadows of the Past: Book Review (XL) To Live Out Loud

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Shadows of the Past. August 4, 2015. Book Review (XL) To Live Out Loud. It's my pleasure to present you today Paulette Mahurin. To Live Out Loud. A book that will catch the attention of readers fascinated by history and controversial decisions and events. A story that will stay with me forever. To Live Out Loud. 8217;s novel are so valid in our modern times, and so called ”democratic” countries. During the Third Republic,. Fixation in the minds of French nationalists. That there was a conspiracy to destr...

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Shadows of the Past: July 2015

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Shadows of the Past. July 29, 2015. Wednesday Writing Wisdom (18) George Orwell. 8220;Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”. Another reason for “Orwell” was because he wanted a name that started with a letter in the middle of the alphabet. Why? The Party was all powerful and literally watched over Winston Smith's (and everyone...

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The Craft of Writing – Diana Cranstoun

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Strong Women. Strong Stories. In My Father’s Footsteps. The Craft of Writing. May 4, 2015. IT’S A BRAW, BRICHT, MOONLICHT NICHT, THE NICHT. If I’m being totally honest, there are probably places in Scotland where they really do talk like that. In fact, many years ago, when visiting Aberdeen, (150 miles from Glasgow where I lived) I struggled to figure out the nationality of the people sitting at the table next to me in the restaurant. Were they Dutch? Turns out they were Aberdonians, but with their Doric.

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In My Father’s Footsteps – Diana Cranstoun

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Strong Women. Strong Stories. In My Father’s Footsteps. In My Father’s Footsteps. In May 1940, my father, Jack Cranstoun, was one of 340,000 soldiers rescued in what became known as the Miracle of Dunkirk. Sixty-nine years later, accompanied by my good friend Anna, I travelled to France to retrace his journey to that bloodied beach. If you wish you read an account of my pilgrimage, please click here. To purchase a copy of In My Father’s Footsteps. The landscape at Vimy appears other-worldly as the shell ...

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Irn Bru – Diana Cranstoun

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Strong Women. Strong Stories. In My Father’s Footsteps. May 4, 2015. IT’S A BRAW, BRICHT, MOONLICHT NICHT, THE NICHT. If I’m being totally honest, there are probably places in Scotland where they really do talk like that. In fact, many years ago, when visiting Aberdeen, (150 miles from Glasgow where I lived) I struggled to figure out the nationality of the people sitting at the table next to me in the restaurant. Were they Dutch? Turns out they were Aberdonians, but with their Doric. 8211; How are you?

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Travel – Diana Cranstoun

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Strong Women. Strong Stories. In My Father’s Footsteps. January 24, 2016. As an emigrant from Scotland, and with Burns Night almost upon us (January 25th), it can be all too easy to get caught up in twee images of Scotland and its music. You know what I mean – pipers marching through the glens, kilts a-swinging, belting out Scotland the Brave. And while there is definitely a place for all that, my visit back to Scotland for The Perthshire Amber Festival. What can I say apart from – What a musician! About...

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Gilmerton Cove – Diana Cranstoun

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Strong Women. Strong Stories. In My Father’s Footsteps. April 21, 2015. Rightly described as Edinburgh’s Best Kept Secret, Gilmerton Cove. Place to visit if you’re a fan of mysteries. Hidden beneath an unprepossessing cottage on Gilmerton’s main road, historians and archeologists still don’t know for sure when this network of secret passages was built, or even what they were used for. The entrance to Gilmerton Cove. If so, why dig a well that doesn’t reach water? Were they used by Covenanters. Only twent...

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Shadows of the Past: Wednesday Writing Wisdom (19) Edgar Allan Poe

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Shadows of the Past. August 5, 2015. Wednesday Writing Wisdom (19) Edgar Allan Poe. 8220;Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”. Poe is regarded as the “father of the modern literary detective” after he created Le Chevalier C Auguste Dupin as the protagonist for The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841. His mother-in-law discovered that his beloved tortoiseshell cat Catterina had also just died. In the 1860s, the medium Lizzie Doten published some poetry she ...

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Writing – Diana Cranstoun

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Strong Women. Strong Stories. In My Father’s Footsteps. August 21, 2016. Shakespeare By The Bow. It’s Shakespeare by the Bow time again here in Calgary, and this year the chosen play is Hamlet. Produced by Theatre Calgary. It’s an opportunity for talented newly graduated drama students to gain professional experience, performing in a glorious setting. According to Shakespeare Online. Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we commonly use today, including:. I always assumed that was a 1960s word!