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This is a story about two young girls' who have just moved to a
seaside town. They experience a magical adventure with their dog
Flossie, during a particularly dull wet English summer. Returning
from a shopping trip they stumble upon a small antique shop in the
older part of town. Curiosity leads them to enter and discover the
owner is a wizard called Beerfroth. He is enchanted by the children
and they make him laugh, so he gives them a small box as a gift.
They return home to discover it has a secret drawer containing a
ring with magical properties. With the ring the children are able
to visit Rasnaucty Island, a safe haven for threatened animals,
hidden in another dimension governed by the Laird, Archie McBear.
But there's trouble on the island and Beerfroth needs their help.
The mine at Cold Mountain has collapsed and the ice cream bears
have gone on strike. Can the two girls help repair the mine and
restore peace and harmony to the troubled island?
"I am very thankful to the crew of HMS Lightning for the
hospitality we were met with and the way they treated us ...after
being adrift for seven days in the lifeboats Although it was night
time when they picked us up, they gave us food and hot drinks as
much as we could swallow and tried in every way to make us feel
comfortable, which they did with great success They shall never be
forgotten by us Norwegians" John Dann born and educated in Wales.
He enjoyed a career in the travel industry, served briefly in the
RNR at HMS President and Drake enjoys maritime history, now a
writer, living and sailing in Cornwall.
Growing up in Sussex during the turbulent 17th century, John became
involved in the illegal 'owling' trade, where he learnt his
seamanship. Whilst carousing in a Rye inn he was unexpectedly
pressed into the Royal Navy. In 1694, disgruntled with the
ill-fated Spanish Expedition, he joined 'Long Ben' Every's mutiny
setting sail as his coxswain to the Indian Ocean in the Fancy, a
ship of 46 guns,...'and bound to seek our fortunes' as they
declared. It made Henry Every the richest pirate in the world, and
was said, the most profitable raid in history. A popular ballad of
the time proclaimed: "Here's to gentlemen at sea tonight, and a
toast to all free men And when the devil comes to take us home,
he'll drink With old Long Ben!" After the hue and cry, the slippery
Every changed his name and disappeared. On returning to England
John was caught and lost his fortune. Escaping the hangman, he
emerges later as a respectable partner to John Coggs a London
goldsmith banker, trading from the sign of the Kings Head in the
Strand. Unfortunately he became disastrously embroiled in a massive
bankruptcy fraud that shook the city.
Thomas Henry Morgan was born into a musical mining family at end of
the nineteenth century. At twelve he followed his father down the
pit, and at sixteen fought as a boy soldier in the First World War.
Adding to the astonishing fact that more boys under eighteen (like
Tom) were serving at the end of 1915, than in the entire force
Wellington took to Waterloo! Serving as a Colour Sergeant in the
Second, he was captured in North Africa at the fall of Tobruk
imprisoned with some top ranking generals in Castello di
Vincigliata near Florence. He escaped but later captured and
transported to Stalag VIIA in Bavaria where he met the actor Derek
Bond. Pre-war he wrote the music to the Welsh standard a Wea ll
keep a Welcomea and posta "war sang in the chorus of Idloes Owena s
fledgling Welsh National Opera Company. Another WNO artist Mollie
Hair Russell, one-time principal dancer and soprano, recalled Tom
fifty years later as a a big, rugged, handsome mana |great fun to
work witha . He summed up his own philosophy as: a Life aina t all
yer wants but, ita s all yer a aves, Stick a geranium in yer a at
and be a appya
Four years after the Sports Club was formed - are the time of
Edward VII's Coronation, Thomas Cook was reckoned to be among the
`three most competent organisations in the world' the other two
being the Roman Catholic Church and the Prussian Army.
An anthology of historical rugby trivia with nostalgic reflections
on the amateur game. The thinking man's game - New (velvet) caps A
rugby match - not a cattle sale! The 'Great Game' 1914-1918
'Johnnie' foreigner's very welcome Goals, ties, miinor points of
perhaps rouges? The Welsh and English innovators Before hymns and
arias - Ladies, behind closed doors The rise and fall of corporate
Old Boys An Afternoon at Muriel's some of the short stories within
this book
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