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200 years of Dickens on stage and screen

IT’S the annual scarecrow festival in Lush Places and, if truth be told, I’m struggling. This year’s theme is “Royalty”, which doesn’t leave much room for the imagination to run riot. Years ago, when

WINDY, windy weather, we all blow together!” Hannah Kington laughed as she ran along the pavement, hand in hand with her five-year-old twins, Daisy and Amy. She could remember playing this game when s

OLLY POWELL blew out all seven of his birthday candles in one go, and wished he could become invisible whenever he liked. When his sister, Lily, was born a week later, Olly’s wish came true. It wasn’t

SOMETIMES it felt as if I was the only competent one in the family. Take our big American trip, for instance. Everyone – my husband and all the kids – had been bungling it from the start. I suppose th

Many years ago a friend taught me how to make teddy bears, and I still have a few that are precious to me. But the bear that I treasure the most is a very tiny bear hand stitched by my friend as a spe