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Poetry by Hall Orchard's Year 6 to mark the Centenary of WW1
Poetry by Hall Orchard's Year 6 to mark the Centenary of WW1
Local History
in memory to the Fallen of WW1
This book is a follow-up to Martin Wigmore's 'Every Letter Tells a Story', in which he described the life of a rural postman in Leicestershire.
Martin Wigmore has been a postman in the Leicestershire village of Barrow-on-Soar for nearly 30 years. In this memoir we hear what the job entails and how it has changed over the years. The author describes some of 'the most important people' - the customers - their hilarious escapades and their tragedies. He gives affectionate portraits of 'the weird and wonderful Post Office staff', their struggles with inclement weather, flashers, a swarm of angry bees, aggressive dogs, ostriches (oh yes!), and the thieves who break into post offices or steal from the post. We learn to distinguish between 'jogging' and 'dogging'. Above all we see the local force of posties working day in, day out as part of their community.
Compendium of three books
Simpsons comic
16 stories and classic carols
You'll never guess what Hooey, Will and Twig are up to now - they've only gone and built a crazy bouncing boat to enter the Shrimpton-on-Sea home-made boat race! But who's that coming up on the outside? Is that Grandad in a battleship? Bob the Baker in a doughnut dinghy? or Philbert the farmer on a floating cow?