Category: Snippets

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Links of Interest

No time for a full blog post this week, as I am away for a couple of days, but here are a couple of links that might be of interest:

As a coda to the Best of 2023 playlist from a couple of weeks ago, this site allows you to link to those artists who have their songs for sale on Bandcamp. Bandcamp allows artists to sell their music and merch directly to the public, allowing them to cut out the middlemen and keep a greater share of the profits for themselves.

And here is a proposal for a “lost” route between Bristol and Oxford to be named the North Wessex Way.

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Grant Family History: Man About Town

John Peter Grant of Burley, aged 19 in 1936 used to go to a number of theatre shows in London. On the left is a menu card dated 12th September 1936, and on the right is a collection of autographs he managed to collect. At the bottom, is that of Douglas Fairbanks, above that is Marlene Dietrich. Both were huge Hollywood stars at the time. Perhaps readers can throw some light on the other signatures. The top one was that of my Father.

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Wessex in Fiction: The Ghost Sonata

The Ghost Sonata is the third in the Gilda Joyce series of young adult mystery novels by Jennifer Allison. Gilda Joyce is a teenager who solves mysteries using a ouija board and her psychic abiities. The Ghost Sonata sees her accompanying her best friend Wendy Choy to a piano recital in Oxford, where she discovers that the recital is haunted.