Sunrise 2012
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By any standard, this year's Sunrise Celebration ought to have been a disaster . We awoke on the first night to find someone had...
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The Way of the Morris and Barleymow
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Telling the Bees played at Lunar Festival a couple of weekends ago, and despite the biblical weather it was a fine festival indeed with so...
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Go fly a kite
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During the recent spell of sunny weather (remember that?) I turned out a kite, a forgotten gift, from the bottom of a cupboard. What could b...
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Little Galicia
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Who'd have thought it? Oxford is home to a thriving Galician diaspora and they were out in force this week for the first of what I hope ...
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