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Meeting the Moomins…
One grey morning the first snow began to fall in the Valley of the Moomins. It fell softly and quietly, and in a few hours everything was white. Moomintroll stood on his doorstep and watched the world nestle beneath its winter blanket. ‘Tonight,’ he thought, ‘We shall settle down for our long winter’s sleep.’ (All…
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Beautiful Bookmarks!
Woohoo people, I have proper bookmarks!!! A friend who loves books and reading as much as I do bought them for me for Christmas. She noticed that I tend to mark my place when I’m reading with old bus tickets, train tickets, letters, bills, shopping lists and anything else that comes to hand. I’ve even…
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Timbuktu: As far away as the Moon!
The Great Mosque of Djenné, which is in Mali (but not in Timbuktu, apparently, although thebuilding methods are the same in both places).Courtesy of Wikitravel When I was a child Timbuktu was one of those mysterious places that seemed to exist only in the imagination, like El Dorado, or Shangri La, impossibly far away, a city…
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