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We don’t go much on Halloween in our house, but I thought I’d share with you a few photos of Longridge over this Halloween weekend.  There has been an outbreak of knitted pumpkins and woolly cobwebs on the high street.  This is just one of the reasons I love living here. This evening I’m off…

Sometimes, life gets a bit bonkers.  This week is my children’s half term.  This time last year we were in Scotland having a few days away.  No such luck this year.  I’ve got too many things to do, and it’s not so much ‘not enough time to do them’ as trouble prioritising.  I have a…

At the beginning of October I took up a position as Honorary Researcher in History at Lancaster University.  It’s great, because it means I’ve got an institutional affiliation again, and with it access to databases and a library.  It’s also nice to feel part of an academic community again. The only down side is that…

‘An extraordinary item of business’. So the Manchester Courier and Lancashire Advertiser described the decision to amalgamate Bolton Grammar School and the High School for Boys in December 1897. It went on to comment that ‘much will be said before it becomes – if ever – an accomplished fact’. Eighteen months later the first issue…

Last week I spent a glorious morning in Manchester with my husband, children and parents attending my graduation.  It was a lovely ceremony to share with my family, so I thought I’d share a photo of me in my silly hat (cue a few games of frisbee) and posh robes (“Mummy, you look like Hermione…

Today has been an unusual day: I went to help out the PTFA of my children’s primary school with the refreshments for the Key Stage 1 sports day. (Bear with me – I promise this post really is work-related). It proved to be an interesting social experience, because although these were people I meet regularly…