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22nd July 2014
22 July is the feast day of St Mary Magdalen who was the patron saint of pharmacists, hairdressers, repentant sinners and reformed prostitutes. A strange concoction […]
21st July 2014
Life …. work …. life …. work …. what is the right balance? Well, we (me and Mr FWL) are trying to tip the balance a […]
20th July 2014
Margaret Robson was the second – but the only surviving – child of William and Ann (nee Codling). Baptised in the parish of Morpeth, Northumberland on […]
19th July 2014
Born today in 1860 in Fall River, Massachusetts, Lizzie’s mother died in 1863 and her father, Andrew Borden, married Abby Gray two years later. In 1892, […]
18th July 2014
Today marks the anniversary of the Chappaquiddick incident. Shortly before midnight on 18 July 1969, Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy left a party on the island of […]
17th July 2014
And we really have gone a bit bonkers today in this heat….. Black Sheep. There is (at least) one in every family and there are some […]
16th July 2014
The power of the atom was unleashed on the world today in 1945 and, as Albert Einstein put it in a telegram in New York Times, […]
15th July 2014
Today, we celebrate our 300th blog post on FWL! Good heavens …. how is that possible?! And on St Swithin’s Day as well. He was a […]
14th July 2014
Bastille Day is the name given in English-speaking countries to the French National Day, which is celebrated on 14 July each year. In France, it is formally called Fête nationale. […]