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Parish Notice.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 10, 2014

Good Morning all – and apologies for the lack of posts recently. Ms Raccoon has had a few problems of her own to sort out, leaving little enough time to put the world to rights…

All

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Who do you think you are kidding, Mr COBRA?

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by Petunia Winegum on October 22, 2014

Forty years ago, in October 1974, five people were killed in an explosion that ripped through a pub in Guildford; just over a month later, twenty-one were killed in two separate explosions that ripped through

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Valuing Antiques – and the Great Pig-Iron Bubble.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 7, 2014

A friend e-mailed me this week, asking if I could be of assistance in valuing some antiques for them. Years of ‘antique running’ taught me that there is only one answer to that question – they are worth

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A Grovelling Apology.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 2, 2014

An abysmal performance yesterday; I can only say how terribly sorry I am for the trouble I caused you all.

When I took the site down before I had my last operation – I managed to delete

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Pedagogue or Paedophile?

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by Anna Raccoon on September 16, 2014

A long, long, time ago, just after World War 11, six licenses were granted to war veterans that allowed them to take commercial photographs in Trafalgar Square thus overriding the obscure by-law that had long prevented this means

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One Man and His Shed.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 14, 2014

I needed to open a can of treacle today.

Mr G was off in the middle distance, roaring up and down the field on his tractor; the man who cut the hay had had

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Past Lives and the NHS.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 12, 2014

I posted yesterday on the different attitude between France and the UK to families being present in a hospital and helping nurse their relatives. I hadn’t appreciated until the comments started coming in – and a

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Two

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by Anna Raccoon on September 11, 2014

Where was I? Oh, yes, Cumberlow Lodge, South Norwood. Politely described as a ‘children’s home’ – no doubt to honour the strictures of the will of the Victorian philanthropist, W E Stanley, who had left his much

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part One.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 10, 2014

The blog post that won’t go away is still bouncing around in my head; the Sunday newspapers today have further infuriated me – and after long talks with Mr G, I have made the decision to

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A Requiem for Popsy.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 7, 2014

I was in my 30s before I got round to wondering why none of my relatives spoke to any of the other relatives. I just accepted it as a child. Questions were not encouraged.

As

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A l’Eau, C’est l’Heure

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by Anna Raccoon on September 5, 2014

Dear Blog,

Thank-you for being here, you are such a comfort to me.

There I was, minding my own business, as one does when one has an Important Man

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A Shropshire Lass.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 4, 2014

When I wrote of medieval ale houses, I had in mind old Flossie Lane’s establishment.

Flossie’s grandparents acquired the licence to sell beer and wine from their front parlour to the local farmers

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A Shaggy Corgii Tale…

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by Anna Raccoon on September 2, 2014

 

Mr T, who came before Mr G, in my dyslexic litany of marriages, once offered to move a boiler for me so that I could squeeze another piece of kitchen equipment into the resulting space.

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Ms Raccoon regrets…

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by Anna Raccoon on September 1, 2014

You got up far too late today to catch sight of the Raccoon – she was up and away, on her travels again, before you even put the kettle on…

Once the good Doctors

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Gap-year journalism bringing you gap-year jihadism.

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by Anna Raccoon on August 25, 2014

Austin Tice 2012

The lexicon of corporate life has affected the dead tree press in ways more subtle than the arrest of 63 journalists for offences uncovered by the investigation of the so-called ‘hacking’ investigation, or

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The Youdathought bird is back…

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by Anna Raccoon on August 11, 2014

The Guardianistas are on holiday. Only their corpus – their spiritual souls are still swarming across Twitter expressing outrage. A moment’s pause in motion brings the fingertips skating across their touch screen. “Oh do look Jeremy, Martha has posted

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Whenever I hear the Sparrow Chirping…

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by Anna Raccoon on August 5, 2014

During the week, I might have as many as 50 ‘tabs’ open on the computer; articles that have generated a germ of an idea, research for an article I might be writing. They just pile up on me. Sometimes

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Ms Raccoon Returns…

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by Anna Raccoon on July 15, 2014

My, but I’ve been having fun.

Mr G decided to buy me a car to celebrate my return to normal life – nothing fancy, just a little run around that I could leave in the garage

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You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato.

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by Anna Raccoon on June 20, 2014

(Note: [remove before publishing] Should be safe enough Ed: they must have run out of vegetable puns after yesterday….)

Hurling abuse is a time honoured occupation. The earliest reference I can find is to an early

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Beating Your Curd and Whey.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 24, 2014

A tip o’ the Dutch cap this morning to Jasper Kuin for showing Dutch courage in the face of health and safety regulations.Â

It is a Bank Holiday week-end; it used to be called Whitsun, but

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Dove Tales.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 21, 2014

When we lived in the ancienne poste house in the centre of the village, built into the metre thick walls of the bastide, one of the delights was sitting on the terrace in the morning sun listening to the

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Ms Raccoon regrets…

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by Anna Raccoon on May 15, 2014

You are too late. Should have called in earlier. She’s already left.

She has jetted off to sunny Glasgow to attend a seminar on Moral Panic.

She thinks Marrakech would have been a better idea

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Ms Raccoon regrets…

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by Anna Raccoon on May 15, 2014

You are too late. Should have called in earlier. She’s already left.

She has jetted off to sunny Glasgow to attend a seminar on Moral Panic.

She thinks Marrakech would have been a better idea

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Death of the Last Taboo.

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by Anna Raccoon on May 14, 2014

Nothing is sacrosanct on Twitter, no detail of intimate life too delicate to explore; except death. There is no #death hashtag. It has to be masked – #dyingmatters.

No surprises in the etymology – the word

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They'll be Coming Round the Mountain…

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by Anna Raccoon on April 24, 2014

Or rather they won’t! Was I the only person who raised a silent cheer at the news that the Nepalese Sherpas had walked off Everest, and that thus ‘this year’s Everest expeditions

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Vote Dom! You Know it Makes Sense!

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by Anna Raccoon on April 22, 2014

Selection on merit for parliamentary candidates – I’m a great believer in it. Forget ‘all-women’ lists, and parachuting ‘friends of the party’ into safe seats. Every candidate should be individually selected on their aptitude for the

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The Return of the Bionic Raccoon.

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by Anna Raccoon on April 21, 2014

Done it! Done it! Done it! Been there; got the t-shirt; everything is behind me now – literally!

It was far from ‘the breeze’ that I expected it to be – probably the most testing week

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Wake me up before you Go-Gojam!

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by Anna Raccoon on April 5, 2014

 Gojam, the ever present, malodorous, spiteful, demanding, unreasonable, illogical, presence in my life, who had no other function in life than to spout bile, has been given his marching orders. From Tuesday afternoon he will be

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“As good be hang’d for an old sheep as a young lamb”?

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by Anna Raccoon on March 8, 2014

The new breed of righteous ‘paedophile hunters’ are not a tribe exclusive to the UK. I suspect they were introduced to the native population like grey squirrels – possibly from Australia, where they are even more

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Kitty Fiddlers and Your Pussy.

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by Anna Raccoon on February 22, 2014

Talking Angela talks dirty.

I wasn’t intending to post today, but I cannot resist it now. ‘Duncan Disorderly’ has spotted such a corker of a row going on in Paedomaggedon land.

‘Talking

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