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Trials and Tribulations

Bernadette Nason — Fri, 21 May 2021 14:02:01 +0000

After months of struggling to get website support from GoDaddy, I’ve finally moved my website to Bluehost.com and, while hesitating to sound like a commercial, I’ve received more positive support from them in the past week than in all the years I’ve been with G/D. Here’s hoping I’ll now be in a position, both technically

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English Christmas Splendour in the Swinging 1960s

Bernadette Nason — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:35:26 +0000

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The True Meaning of Thanksgiving

Bernadette Nason — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 19:18:38 +0000

As you probably know, the English don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. O. Henry loves to tell people – it is a “purely American” holiday. In England, we celebrate Harvest Festival. Of course, we’ve given thanks for successful harvests since pagan times – the odd virgin sacrifice to the corn spirits, you know – but the tradition of

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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Bernadette Nason — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 23:29:37 +0000

I grew up surrounded by all things Jane Austen. She died in my hometown of Winchester in the county of Hampshire in England, and is buried in Winchester Cathedral. She spent much of her life in Hampshire, and lived her last eight years in Chawton, near Winchester. The cottage is a museum in her honor.

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White Rabbit, White Rabbit, White Rabbit

Bernadette Nason — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 20:22:53 +0000

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Bernadette Nason I’ve been saying, “White rabbit, white rabbit, white rabbit” first thing on the first day of every month since I was tiny. According to my lovely mum, mentioning white rabbits x 3 first thing on the first day of the month brings good luck for the rest of the month.

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Summer 1984, Tripoli, Libya — My First Voice Work

Bernadette Nason — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:59:00 +0000

Excerpts from letters to England (grammar and spelling choices have been left intact) Tripoli, 24th July 1984 “Another thing which is quite interesting is that some of the Tripoli Players are doing a sound recording for some educational tapes to teach Libyans English words and grammar, and they have asked me if I would consider

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Summer 1984, Tripoli, Libya — My First Voice Work

Bernadette Nason — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:51:25 +0000

EXCERPTS FROM LETTERS TO ENGLAND (grammar and spelling choices have been left intact) Tripoli, 24th July 1984 “Another thing which is quite interesting is that some of the Tripoli Players are doing a sound recording for some educational tapes to teach Libyans English words and grammar, and they have asked me if I would consider

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St. Valentine’s Day in Libya, 1985

Bernadette Nason — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:30:16 +0000

What does the average woman expect to receive on St. Valentine’s Day? Flowers, chocolates, and champagne come to mind, naughty knickers perhaps. At the very least, a card. I haven’t lived in Great Britain for ages, and haven’t been there on that special occasion for thirty years so I can’t be sure how it goes

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Christmas Memories from My Mum

Bernadette Nason — Sun, 22 Jan 2017 18:48:41 +0000

Late in my mother’s life, I asked her to write down anything she remembered about our growing up years, a difficult time as Mum was a single parent, and Dad rarely sent the money required to take care of three little children. Fearing that Christmas had become a sad occasion for us, she made a

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Halloween Treats

Bernadette Nason — Sun, 22 Jan 2017 18:42:16 +0000

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Bernadette Nason I’ve just got in from my last Halloween storytelling session for this season — I calculate about 3,300 children in the past ten days have gobbled up those Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night. It’s my most heavily booked program because, without a doubt, creepy tales

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