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  2. Pam Ayres - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Potting On - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories - Wikipedia

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    At their worst many of these stories are like honey-coated breakfast cereal. They give you a sugar rush only to let you crash by midmorning." He concludes "Leaving Home will most likely make Garrison Keillor's fans love him all the more. For you who don't like him or have not taken the time to shape an opinion, I recommend that you at least go ...

  5. Final Photo Captures Grandparents Trapped On Roof Before ...

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    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 ...

  6. Grandfather's Journey - Wikipedia

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    The story is told from the perspective of Say, who narrates his grandfather’s immigration between Japan and the United States. [1] Say’s grandfather subsequently moves back to Japan. [ 2 ] Released by Houghton Mifflin , the book was positively received by critics and reviewers, and Say received the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1994.

  7. List of Adrian Mole characters - Wikipedia

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    Her living room is cluttered with cat hairs and photographs of distant relatives. Her poems consist entirely of sub-Pam Ayres cat poems, one of which, entitled Naughty Paws, managed to rhyme "Whiskas" with "discus". When her poems are eventually published it gives Adrian an excuse to expel her from the group as it is 'for amateurs only'.

  8. 92-year-old grandma and grandson are on a mission to visit ...

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    Brad Ryan, 41, and his 92-year-old grandmother, Joy Ryan, are nearing the finish line on a goal they once thought was impossible: visiting all 63 U.S. national parks together. The duo from Duncan ...

  9. Home Thoughts from Abroad - Wikipedia

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    The speaker in the poem concludes by stating that the blooming English buttercups will be brighter than the "gaudy melon-flower" seen growing in Italy. [2] The poem is in two stanzas. The first stanza has an irregular metre consisting of alternating trimeter, tetrameter and pentameter lines and a final trimeter line, with an ABABCCDD rhyming ...