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The ARCHERS through the years

‘Christmas involves a suspension of disbelief’

We all carry our favourite places in our minds. I can describe, in minute detail, the view of my grandmother’s Dublin kitchen from a vantage point beneath the dining table. She’s gone now, and the kitchen is modernised, but that warm, fuggy kitchen endures in my imagination.

Some of those places aren’t real. I  have a personal Pemberley, perhaps you have your own Manderley or Bleak House. Having, I have a  personal Ambridge, and it was mind-bending to be invited to write about it.

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