Mime – Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement

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Typo. A typo (short for typographical error) is a small, unintentional mistake made while typing or printing text, such as misspelled words, missing letters, or transposed characters Common examples include “teh” for “the” or “manager” for “manage”. Please help me out – I need another 32 people to each read

black text on white page listing some of the contents of the autobiography

April 21, 2026 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / Uncategorized

A Lie-in.

This morning I stayed in bed until about 8 am – which is a huge lie-in for me. Apart from the fact I like to get up early, for the past few years I haven’t wanted to lie in bed, because my book was calling to me. Today is a

a pub on the bank of a river, water in the foreground.

April 7, 2026 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime

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 like? Well, let’s take that last question first. The best photo (and the photos are pretty scarce) was taken by well-known and respected photographer, Eric de Mare, and can be

March 31, 2026 Biography / Blog / Mime

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 Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Aslan is a powerful king; a wise lion who features heavily in the books – representing goodness, justice and sacrifice. Folklore has it that

photo of the stone coronet from the head of the Heraldic Lion statue

March 24, 2026 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime

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 done detective work to find out where the statue was located. Toby’s methodology was absolutely fascinating – he saw loads of clues in the photo, things that I hadn’t even