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The Imposter
Another Genealogy letter: My partner’s maternal Grandfather is a bit of an enigma: He vanished, apparently without trace, leaving his wife with three young children. The children suffered a great deal as a result, their mother took them back to live with her parents, but as the progeny of a broken home, they were shunned…
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Wintermiddle
Wintermiddle is, as far as I know, an invention of Michael Rosen. His alternative to Father Christmas is Aunty Wintermiddle, a cheerful rainbow-wearing bringer of good times and merriment. When I was going through my ‘its all a patriarchal construct’ phase, I found Aunty very comforting. These days I’ll go with any celebration on offer…
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Haunted by Fairy Tales
So I’m on a business trip in Germany, slightly reluctantly (too close to Christmas, weather turning bad) and I discover that Kassel, where I am at a meeting of a European Project is the home town of the Brothers Grimm. Drawing a veil over the journey which was definitely in the Epic rather than F-T…
Cherry Potts, Writer 