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Marion Colledge

Linguist, Writer, Gardener, Carer.

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September Sentences

October 2, 2019October 12, 2019
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September 3rd A friend wants all my grey-brown spent poppy stems and elegant seed-heads, even those now covered by sooty ... READ MORE
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Diary - May 2019

May 29, 2019June 1, 2019
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Thursday 16 May 2019 Slight leak in toilet the day after my dear plumber of some ten years moves out of London. A plumber ... READ MORE
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Wheelchair Days - Chapter One

September 28, 2018January 19, 2019
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The Emergency Unit April 11th 2013, 5.30 a.m. The old-fashioned clock is ticking on the wall. It’s five a.m. We are in the ... READ MORE
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Wheelchair Days - Chapter Two

September 9, 2018January 19, 2019
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Always Unstoppable Arthur 2005-13 Every day, if you were actually not away on an assignment or a conference, you got up in ... READ MORE
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Travelling Companions

August 10, 2018January 19, 2019
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Besides being a computer programmer, you were first and foremost a traveller, a silent onlooker of people, a noter of bus and ... READ MORE
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Aquatherapy is not for Arthur

August 10, 2018January 19, 2019
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Background In April 2013 my sixty-three year old husband, Arthur, had a massive brain haemorrhage due to warfarin given for a ... READ MORE
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Euston: our first trip out of hospi...

August 10, 2018January 19, 2019
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What you wanted most in life was a travelling companion, someone who would go with you on buses, trains and later planes. I ... READ MORE
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St Pancras Station: always both ple...

August 10, 2018January 19, 2019
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St Pancras Midland Railway Station – ‘the place that holds all’, conjures up a sense of excitement because it was upstairs in ... READ MORE
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Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and Bethleh...

August 1, 2017January 19, 2019
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Visit to Jerusalem, Palestine, Bir Zeit Twinning meeting and Al Walaja (linked with Bedford via Friends of Al Walaja) April ... READ MORE
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