Category: Blogs

Many of my blog posts are published on Shine A Light On Life, including the series in my Sampler. I also regularly blog on Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter, mainly about events local to me.

Snowdrops : Sign of Life

Snowdrops: Sign of Life: There are snowdrops at the foot of a hedge. They are like dots of light.
Later, another day in Somerset, there are snowdrops in an ancient apple orchard in Street. It is snowdrop season and Spring is on its way.

Christmas Tree Festival

Blog by Lynne Pearl DECEMBER’ 22 CHRISTMAS TREES It’s the close of the year and so we have Christmas tree festivals.  There used to be ones in every major church in times gone by, but this year there was one in Crediton where they do a splendid one.  They have a splendid church to have…

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Autumn Sea Storms

Living by the sea autumn brings storms Autumn is about trees and leaves changing colour but also when you are really close to the sea there are other things that are happening too.  Autumn means storms and the sea changing.  It used to be that one would turn up with swimsuit and towel, ready to dive under the waves and swim as far as possible,

Mid Devon Show 2022

This is a sample post from Lynne Pearl’s blog on Tumblr Blog by Lynne Pearl, June 2022 After the Devon County Show there are the local shows, we have them all, North Devon, Tavistock, Honiton and those are just the ones I know. I like to go to the ones I can, it never fails….

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Sophie’s Kitchen: Recipe 1 Lasagne

This is a sample post from Lynne Pearl’s series of General posts on the blog Shine A Light On Life by Sophie Gifford Payne The Wedding Food Diary These are the recipes for the food we ate together with various family and friends on July 31 as we got ready for Vicky and James’ wedding….

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The Wedding Journal – 1

This is a sample post from Lynne Pearl’s series The Wedding Journal on the blog Shine A Light On Life The Wedding Journal by Lynne Pearl(Shortlisted for Yeovil Prize for Literature, ‘Writing Without Limits’ 2016) Written for everyone who: Introduction: A Wedding on Two Continents What began as the story of a wedding and its…

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Bus to Bude

We have to leave early, before nine o’ clock on a Saturday morning, passing first of all the St Thomas train station through the sleeping suburb, we take the Dunsford road out of town and rise up and away from the city below us. The backpackers get on our bus in twos along the way….

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Ride on an open-top bus to Padstowe

We were just out for a drive but drove farther and farther into Cornwall. We sped past Bodmin Moor, eclipsed Dartmoor, lying huge and mighty on the skyline. We weren’t trying to cross Dartmoor today, we had other ways to go. We were travelling on the A30 via Bodmin and Launceston. At the top of…

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Three buses to the moor

We leave town passing through a green leafy tunnel formed of trees reaching over the road from both sides and catching hands. Then the open country arrives and we are driving beside the flood plain of a mighty river, which floods in winters when there’s heavy rains. Then we begin to climb and on our…

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