by Bernadette Nason | May 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 14, 2017 | Christmas, England
A short post because the photo says it all. Life in England was simpler back in the early 1960s. Everything connected with Christmas is on top of, alongside, or in front of the radiogram. Christmas Tree (live) – check Creche with the Angel Gabriel on top...
by Bernadette Nason | Nov 23, 2017 | Austin, Dubai, Thanksgiving
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...
by Bernadette Nason | Mar 1, 2017 | Actor, Austin, England
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...
by Bernadette Nason | Mar 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
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...
by Bernadette Nason | Feb 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
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...
by Bernadette Nason | Feb 15, 2017 | Actor, Libya
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...
by Bernadette Nason | Feb 14, 2017 | Libya, Valentines
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...
by Bernadette Nason | Jan 22, 2017 | Christmas, England
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...
by Bernadette Nason | Jan 22, 2017 | Austin, Halloween, Storyteller
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...
