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...
