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  • October 18, 2021 Janet Fizz Curtis

    ***Lavender Yates*** Tim *** message***

    MESSAGE FOR TIM. Please can you contact me again?  The email address that I have for you does not respond

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  • April 28, 2026 webmaster

    Typo

    Typo. A typo (short for typographical error) is a small, unintentional mistake made while typing or printing text, such as

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  • black text on white page listing some of the contents of the autobiography
    April 21, 2026 webmaster

    A Lie-in.

    This morning I stayed in bed until about 8 am – which is a huge lie-in for me. Apart from

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  • a pub on the bank of a river, water in the foreground.
    April 7, 2026 webmaster

    Part 4 – Where is Miss Mawer’s Heraldic Lion?

    When Miss Mawer visited the lion, where was it? Why did she go there? And what did the lion look

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  • Irene Mawer, sitting.
    March 31, 2026 webmaster

    Part 3 – The Lion (and the witch, not forgetting the wardrobe)

    C S Lewis is, to many people, a children’s author; he wrote the Chronicles of Narnia tales, which includes The

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  • photo of the stone coronet from the head of the Heraldic Lion statue
    March 24, 2026 webmaster

    Part 2 – A Heraldic Mullet

    In my previous blog post, I wrote about Miss Mawer sitting on a life-sized, stone lion and that Toby had

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  • photo of a statue of a lion, carved in stone, wearing a coronet.
    March 17, 2026 webmaster

    The Godstow Heraldic Lion

    Deep in the Irene Mawer Archives (otherwise known as ‘the old biscuit tin in the attic’) there lies a lovely

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  • March 10, 2026 webmaster

    A Lost Strand

    What does the word ‘mime’ mean to you? For many people, it suggests silence: a performer with a white face,

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  • screenshot showing a paragraph of manuscript. Paragraph is highlighted in blue.
    March 3, 2026 webmaster

    Paraphrasing

    In a previous blog post, I wrote about how I was working hard at self-editing, cutting the number of words

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July 25, 2022 Biography / Blog / Mime / voice

South Africa. 15 December 1937

CAPE Argus, Cape Town, South Africa 15 December 1937 Greek Dance Examination; Miss Hodson to Adjudicate I am unclear as to whether Miss Lesley Hodson was born in England or in South Africa. It seems that she may have been born in England, and moved to South Africa as an

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July 18, 2022 Biography

Drama School (Belfast). 13 December 1937

Belfast News Letter 13 December 1937 This newspaper clipping (see photo) covers a ‘pop-up’ drama school which I have written about in the previous few blog posts.  However, for the first time, there is a hint that the event was not as popular as might have been hoped “…there were

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July 11, 2022 Biography / Blog / Mime / voice

Ulster Drama School. 11 December 1937

Belfast News Letter 11 December 1937 ULSTER DRAMA SCHOOL: Art of Mime and Planning of Production The initial event of the Drama School workshops received praise from the Belfast News Letter. On the Friday evening, the lecturers were Miss Helga Burgess and Mr Howard Hayden. Miss Burgess, a Fellow of

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July 4, 2022 Biography

Drama School in Belfast. 11 December 1937

Belfast Telegraph 11 December 1937 DRAMA SCHOOL IN BELFAST Ooh, I bet Irene Mawer was not pleased when she read this article printed in the Belfast Telegraph. At the top of the article, the first word of the first line under the heading is ‘deportment’. I recall chatting with Ann

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June 28, 2022 Biography / Blog / Mime

Drama School in Belfast. 11 December 1937

Belfast Telegraph 11 December 1937 DRAMA SCHOOL IN BELFAST.  Well-known Experts on Production and Acting In modern terms, we might call this a ‘pop-up’ drama school.  Organised by the rural Development Council of Northern Ireland, the School comprised three sessions, one during the evening, and two the next day. Both

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  • Typo
  • A Lie-in.
  • Part 4 – Where is Miss Mawer’s Heraldic Lion?
  • Part 3 – The Lion (and the witch, not forgetting the wardrobe)
  • Part 2 – A Heraldic Mullet
  • The Godstow Heraldic Lion
  • A Lost Strand
  • Paraphrasing
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