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Pam Ayres was born in Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire (now administered as part of Oxfordshire), the youngest of six children (having four elder brothers and a sister) of Stanley and Phyllis Ayres. Her father worked for 44 years as a linesman for the Southern Electricity Board, having been a sergeant in the Grenadier Guards during the Second ...
Pam (Pam Ayres) and Gordon (Geoffrey Whitehead) are a long-married couple who run a small garden centre. Gordon is a creature of habit while Pam longs to break out of her humdrum routine. The humour revolves around her efforts to persuade him to try something new, or at least stop holding her back.
The story has appeared in numerous collection books. First, it appeared in the 1987 collection Inside Stories II. [2] Next, it appeared in Wilson's own 1990 collection, The Leaving [3] (also known by the name The Leaving and Other Stories for some reprints). [4] It was also included in the 2000 collection Close Ups: Best Stories for Teens. [5]
A final photo has emerged of North Carolina grandparents on the roof of their home, surrounded by floodwaters, minutes before they drowned due to Hurricane Helene. Jessica Drye Turner’s family ...
Leaving Home [1] is a drama in two acts by Canadian playwright David French. The work is the first presented of what has come to be known as the Mercer Plays, followed by Of the Fields, Lately, Salt-Water Moon, 1949 and Soldier's Heart. It has been credited with introducing a unique Canadian voice to the world, and with proving that "Canadian ...
In the late 70s Clarke styled himself as a "punk poet" [8] and in 1979 had his only UK top 40 hit with "Gimmix!(Play Loud)". [1] [9] He toured with Linton Kwesi Johnson, and performed on the same bill as bands such as the Sex Pistols, the Fall, Joy Division, Buzzcocks, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Elvis Costello, Rockpile and New Order (including at their May 1984 Music for Miners benefit ...
Doris Day's grandson says he wasn't allowed to see his ailing grandmother in her final years alive. Ryan Melcher, whose father is Day's late son, Terry Melcher, took to Facebook to reveal that he ...
"She's Leaving Home" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, and released on their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Paul McCartney wrote and sang the verse and John Lennon wrote the chorus , which they sang together.