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Cheers to Tara as Loddon wins national award While some struggle to achieve creativity, for others creativity pours out of them – and it’s definitely true of Tara Magee, Head Brewer at Loddon Brewery. Elestr […]
Finding comfort in troubling times I AM CURRENTLY reading a biography of Pope John Paul the Second by the broadcaster Edward Stourton. The author refers to the historian Dr Francis Fukuyama, who wrote about the […]
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Age of the train – made in miniature In 1975, seven-year-old Alan Monk knew just what he wanted: a Hornby Great Western Railway freight set…lighting his life-long passion for model railways, as he told Elestr […]
Holidays IN THE CURRENT heatwave, my holiday, taken in early May, is a memory. I enjoyed going away and visiting interesting places. Two of them were cathedrals. As we were based in Norfolk, and stayed […]
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Picking up the thread TEXTILE ARTIST Kate Findlay vividly remembers the moment her passion for art was kindled: when her mum took her to London to see a Turner exhibition. “I remember looking at his […]
A Political-Religious Spat and its Solution I CONFESS THAT, as I write this column, I have been ‘enjoying’ the recent spat between the President of the United States and leader of the largest Christian denomination […]
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Touching Beauty WAITING FOR his wife on the steps of York Minster, John Nicholls noticed some new carving around the West Door and thought how wonderful it must be to work in stone. The opportunity […]
Dr Alison Johnston, Caversham Bridge, 2017 (Editors Login)