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Elementary, my dear Watson – Hg Mercury

21st March 2023 SharpieType301 2658 Comments

In previous articles, we’ve explored the development of the Periodic Table (a.k.a. the Periodic Table of the Elements), and examined the elements Hydrogen, and Carbon. In this, the fourth, I’m going to take a closer [more…]

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Elementary, my dear Watson – C Carbon

7th March 2023 SharpieType301 2763 Comments

In previous articles, we’ve looked at the element Hydrogen, and at the development of the Periodic Table (a.k.a. the Periodic Table of the Elements). This time, I intend to shine the spotlight on an element [more…]

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Stalybridge – Clubs, Pubs And Poets

20th October 2022 Going Postal 3506 Comments

I’ve never been myself, but I’m prepared to bet that Stalybridge is rather different today from when my uncle described it for the Manchester Evening News in February, 1947 – Jerry F A blizzard was [more…]

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Miss Pronter’s Prescient Verses

29th August 2021 Going Postal 2009 Comments

My Dear Friend, Miss. Pronter, has forgiven, but hardly forgotten, my betise in allowing some of her verses to be put forward here, under a mangled version of her name (‘You claim to be a [more…]

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Scorn Not The Sonnet

18th July 2021 Going Postal 2187 Comments

Scorn not the Sonnet Thus wrote Wordsworth, and it’s probably true that sonnets are second only to limericks in the poetry popularity stakes. Both forms have the advantage of being short and memorable. But where [more…]

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Miss Procter’s Verses

21st March 2021 Going Postal 2100 Comments

An old friend of mine, who would eyebrow me, till I’d assured her the dangerous word referred to the length of our acquaintance only, has been for some time working on translations of verses she’s [more…]

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Holding Hands – Part Three

19th October 2020 SharpieType301 3336 Comments

The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring. In [more…]

18th Century

Holding Hands – Part Two

12th October 2020 SharpieType301 3266 Comments

In Part One, I explained that my husband and I travelled to Moelfre, not far from Oswestry, to see a sculptor by the name of Tony Meadows. During that visit, Tony had made an alginate [more…]

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Holding Hands – Part One

5th October 2020 SharpieType301 3554 Comments

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.  William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III Flashback to Sharpie Towers a few years ago, when my lovely husband and I found ourselves looking forward to a significant wedding anniversary. Our tenth to be precise. [more…]

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