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Kirstie's Craft Book - our competition winners
Congratulations to our 5 winners of Kirstie Allsopp's new book 'Craft'. Ann Porritt, Lynne Hanna, Dina Newton-Edwards, Alison Wakefield ...
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Kirstie's Craft Book - our competition winners
Congratulations to our 5 winners of Kirstie Allsopp's new book 'Craft'. Ann Porritt, Lynne Hanna, Dina Newton-Edwards, Alison Wakefield and Rebecca Rattcliff all win a copy. Let us know which of the 50 handmade projects for you decide ...
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Meeting our sewing queen - Carol
X Talented MIAMI member Carol Seatory is our latest inspirational role model. Here's her story... X I’ve sewn and made things since I was a child and, over the years I collected a crate of printed fabrics, mostly from the 1950s and ...
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Living in the Blitz - when you had to "just do it"
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the blitz we've collected some short oral histories from those who were around at the time. What comes across loud and clear is that long after the memories of the falling bombs and the horrors of ...
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What Blitz spirit means to Angela
Angela Waller was taught to knit by her father when she was 3 years old, published her first novel when she was 76, was an air hostess in the 50s-60s and ran a London boutique a stone's throw from Abbey Road. She believes that her war ...
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The spirit of the Blitz - more than a date, a country or a war
The 'Blitz' described the bombing of mainland Britain that took place between early September 1940 and May 1941. Bombs fell on many countries during the Second World War but the lasting legacy was not the damage and destruction, but the ...
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Living the good life in Uruguay
"You're moving WHERE?" “To Uruguay”, we said. “A little country nestled between the giants of Argentina and Brazil, in South America” my husband and I told our family and friends in the USA in the summer of 2007. A year ...
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Car and chips – is old oil the new fuel?
Ed Laver, 21, has taken the phrase ‘chips with everything’ to a new level and converted his car to run on used cooking oil, which he collects from local fish and chip shops. Now he plans to market his conversion kits commercially. ...
