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Parish Notice.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 23, 2016

Morning all! Listen up.

The events of the past few weeks have been pretty exhausting. On a personal level, on a health level, and finally on the level of this blog.

The news from the

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Revenge is a dish best served whenever it suits you…

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by Anna Raccoon on November 20, 2016

Where were we? Right, we shall continue where we left off…

When my daughter made contact with me, she had done her homework. She is a very, very, sharp and smart lady. She had also been though Somerset House

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Confession Time…and Last Writes. (sic)

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by Anna Raccoon on November 19, 2016

This is going to be painful and humiliating, but it is all pertinent to the big picture.

The Internet is full of characters. Some delightful, some several points past barking mad. Because I started my internet

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Dying to be Heard.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 17, 2016

This is not just any pink sponge on a stick – this is a M & S pink sponge on a stick.Â

Well now my beauties; have I got a tale to tell you!

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Why Ms Raccoon is howling at the biggest moon since the year she was born and taking no prisoners.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 15, 2016

Other than a couple of days last week, I have been in hospital for the past three weeks. First Sepsis, then the effects of the attempts to cure me of that. I am now the original Christmas Turkey –

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Vernon’s last wishes.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 8, 2016

Vernon was probably about 70 when I first met him. A taciturn, socially awkward creature who found it difficult to meet your eyes. He would stumble into the tea room – he never seemed

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Perchance to dream?

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by Anna Raccoon on September 23, 2016

Put up with it folks – Ms Raccoon is in whimsical mood, having just enjoyed a romantic trip down a moonlit river to a tiny village with a handily placed Chinese take-away, and the world’s best

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Yo!

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by Anna Raccoon on September 20, 2016

Ms Raccoon would like apologies for her absence to be noted in the minutes.

I wasn’t in any fit state to deal with the bickering, carping, mud hurling, whinging e-mails, or bad tempered tweeting,

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Seitanic Travesties and Vegan ‘R’ Soles, Bovine Cheating and the Eyes have it.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 18, 2016

Yet again, the latest example of the manipulation of our judicial system lies languishing in my ‘to do’ folder; and Ms Raccoon has found three more titbits of absolute nonsense in order to distract herself from the hard

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All A-Broad for a Smudd-lark.

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by Gloria Smudd on August 17, 2016

I can scarcely believe it myself but it continues to be the case that I am intermittently invited to stay with Ms Raccoon and Mr G – provided enough time has elapsed since my last

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One man went to mow…

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by Anna Raccoon on August 3, 2016

As night-time falls, the marsh becomes the province of the ‘will-o’-the-wisp’, that mysterious blueish light that dances hither and thither, occasionally picking up the slow beat of the barn owl’s wings, more usually skitting across the

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Who Owns Your Inner Secrets?

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by Anna Raccoon on July 26, 2016

Whips in parliament operate by controlling information that individual MPs would not want to escape. The Catholic priest enjoyed a measure of control over his community by virtue of what he knew. Blackmailers work on the

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Non, je ne regrette rien…

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by Anna Raccoon on July 11, 2016

Long ago, a woman called Rosie Swale-Pope wrote a book which became famous briefly in the 70s. I, along with every other woman of my generation read it eagerly. Rosie had sailed around the world with her husband,

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Parish Notice.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 8, 2016

How about some good news for a change?

Ms Raccoon won’t be resigning any time soon.

My last scan was a success. Correction, my last scan was a flippin’ disaster – but

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Swallows and Amazons.

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by Anna Raccoon on June 1, 2016

Gosh! Was it really 60 years ago today that I was eight years old? Did the sun really shine all day in June back then? Did I really cycle from Westleton to Dunwich day after day,

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‘Raccoon! A’home!’

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by Anna Raccoon on May 31, 2016

Yes. Well.

We slipped our moorings early Sunday morning. Our ropes were coiled, our fenders stowed. The decks had been scrubbed before dawn. There was probably a belay pin somewhere, who knows.

I’d

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‘Victual’ Reality.

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by Anna Raccoon on April 28, 2016

One of the difficulties of being a ‘one-man band’ running a site such as this, is that I have no ‘newsroom’ colleagues with whom I can discuss contentious matters that I cannot post – either because

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Dunnit, Dunnit, Dunnit.

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by Anna Raccoon on April 21, 2016

I do not care what anybody says about blowing my own trumpet – ahm that reet proud o’ meself!

But amusingly – in collecting the paperwork, I managed to kick off an entire ‘Brexit/anti-EU’ argument in

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The Pachyderm in the Palliative Care room…

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by Anna Raccoon on April 1, 2016

Just as no one would read a ‘Baby rearing’ book until the prospect of parenthood was bearing down upon them – so we all adept at ignoring the literature regarding Palliative Care until we become personally involved in

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The Dangers of Internet Dating.

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by Anna Raccoon on March 15, 2016

The BBC continues its mission to ramp up the dangers posed by the Internet, as opposed to the dangers of cosy old Aunty Beeb….

As it happens (and you might have guessed) Ms Raccoon had

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A kiss is just a kiss? Depends who you are!

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by Anna Raccoon on March 9, 2016

The ‘outrage bus’ is doing wheelies round the Sunderland Football Club car park as it awaits its ritualistic joy-ride through Twitter when Adam Johnson’s sentence is deemed too soft… as it will be if just one week short of

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Parish Notice.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 24, 2016

Ms Raccoon would like to apologise for leaving you all in the dark last week – and to thank you for behaving so well with no one watching over you.

I have had several e-mails asking

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The right to defend yourself against sexual allegations?

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by Anna Raccoon on February 23, 2016

A fascinating case has been making its way through the legal system unnoticed by all bar a few legal practitioners. The media are uninterested – they cannot name or photograph the parties and there are absolutely no celebrities,

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Truth is the first casualty.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 20, 2015

As the media gird their loins for days and weeks worth of satisfying bleeding, crying, heart-rending front pages, one question stands out ‘How could young men become so radicalised that they turn into suicide bombers’.

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Truth is the first casualty.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 15, 2015

As the media gird their loins for days and weeks worth of satisfying bleeding, crying, heart-rending front pages, one question stands out ‘How could young men become so radicalised that they turn into

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Is that a Gun in your pocket?

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by Anna Raccoon on November 8, 2015

Or are you still ‘transitioning’ Officer? – As Ms West might have been forced to inquire these days.

An armed MoD police officer making the delicate transition from male to female,

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For Rosa.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 15, 2015

When Clive James wrote a few months ago of being ‘stuck with the embarrassment of still being alive’, it struck a particular chord with me – as a number of people thought it might, judging by the

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For Rosa.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 14, 2015

When Clive James wrote a few months ago of being ‘stuck with the embarrassment of still being alive’, it struck a particular chord with me – as a number of people thought it

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Anyone for Denis?

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by Petunia Winegum on October 3, 2015

When Tony Benn died last year, the obituaries tended to focus on the radical old uncle of the elder statesman years rather than the belligerent troublemaker of the turbulent early 80s. Benn successfully reshaped his public perception

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The Ship of Fools motors back again…

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by Anna Raccoon on September 10, 2015

Mrs Relentlessly Cheerful wore her broadest grin. ‘Sleep well?’ Her head tipped from top to bottom in that nodding motion employed by amateur psychologists which is supposed to get you to nod in agreement. Her tussled blonde

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