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Snap Around… Looking Back

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The Shriving of Miss Esme Stamp… Update

Lots of you enjoy reading ‘The Shriving of Miss Esme Stamp’ and Stats record a great many visitors to the site each month, therefore, I am going to continue to write this story and in smaller more frequent episodes, so … Continue reading

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The Shriving of Miss Esme Stamp…

Episode 31…Deliverance ‘She is very weak, but still alive.’ The Doctor looked up over his horn rimmed glasses with an inquisitive stare. I’m pleased you brought her to me gentlemen. I doubt she would have survived the journey to Elmhurst … Continue reading

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The Shriving of Miss Esme Stamp…

Episode 30…Rescued ‘She must have been here for some hours.’ The voice did not stir the butterfly quiet of her thoughts. ‘She’s been beaten over the head, probably with that wood!’ The voice nodded towards a Birch stake lying beside … Continue reading

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Looking Back to a Summer Snap Around…

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The Shriving of Miss Esme Stamp…

Episode 29…Madman Cold, early winter air thrust itself around her, rushing her words uselessly over him. ‘What… What have you got there?’ she asked nervously. ‘Your simple-minded sentences are becoming annoying.’ he retorted. Then quite suddenly and without warning, he … Continue reading

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Warming For Winter…

Warming For Winter… The Glenlivet… Glenfarclas…. Glenfiddich… Cragganmore… Macallan…. Lagavulin… Taliskar… Aberlour… Tomintoul…. The label names are endless. I once entered a small shop in Covent Garden that was totally devoted to the sales of rare and often forgotten whisky … Continue reading

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The Shriving of Miss Esme Stamp…

Episode 28…The Punisher Part Two ‘I wish you would not smoke… You know I don’t like it.’ It was a rather weak and vunerable thing for her to say and she simply could not thing of anything else at that … Continue reading

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British Lost and Forgotten Films of the Past…

Expert Opinion 1935 A couple of murders are committed and in both instances the culprit is released on evidence provided by a gun expert. The film also takes in a group of spies who are looking for the plans to … Continue reading

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British Lost and Forgotten Films of the Past…

Everything Happens To Me  1938 Election agent: Cromwell played by Max Miller changes his allegiance mid campaign from Gusty played by H.F. Maltby, a hypocrite in charge of an orphanage, to Prodder played by Frederick Burtwell, a gentle easy-going fellow, … Continue reading

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