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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

YET ANOTHER BATCH OF OLDER PHOTOS FROM THE CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW IN FORMER YEARS

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I've found yet another batch of photos from past Chelsea Flower Shows - always the most magnificent day of the gardening year for me and...

MORE IMAGES FROM ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S FORMER SUMMER GARDEN SHOW AT CHELSEA - MEETING SOME FAMILIAR FACES

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  Sylvia & Lulu Over the last twenty years, it was often fun to spend the first day of the RHS's first large horticultural event of ...

SORRY TO HAVE MISSED YESTERDAY'S VIP DAY AT CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW. HERE ARE SOME SNAPS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS. ONE OF MY FAVOURITE LONDON EVENTS

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James Reddell in wheelchair with his friends during an early visit to Chelsea Flower Show As a keen gardener after fifty years since joining...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

HERE WE GO WITH ANOTHER FABULOUS FUN WALK EVENT - COME JOIN US?

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The organisers of the annual Fun Walk are delighted to share that, thanks to support from local businesses and individuals, the 2025 Bonus P...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

VE DAY 8 MAY IN BILLERICAY - UP WITH THE FLAGS

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We couldn't miss the large crowds at Sun Corner taking part in the  VE Day 80 Beacon Lighting event on Thursday. The atmosphere was exce...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

MAY I INTRODUCE COLIN TAYLOR, AUTHOR, STAND-UP & STORY TELLER?

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  On Saturday, novelist Colin Taylor and the super Lisa Horner, author and librarian, presented their 'Starting to Write' session i...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

INTRODUCING YET ANOTHER FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE AT THE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS & JOURNALISTS - ROBERTA GRIEVE

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  Roberta (Robbie) is a successful novelist and someone I've always enjoyed meeting at our SWWJ gatherings in London. I find it fascinat...
Friday, April 18, 2025

ANOTHER INTRODUCTION TO A NEW FRIEND, THE CLEVER TECH LADY IN BILLERICAY HIGH STREET

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Although I bought my first computer (Amstrad) in 1984 (in those days, Lord Sugar was the main computer provider). His office was then based ...
Wednesday, April 09, 2025

MEETING OTHER AUTHORS - LISA HORNER

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I do enjoy meeting other writers and learning how they first entered this strange writerly world of ours. So, it is with great pleasure that...
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Author, freelance columnist. Latest book Amberley published BRENTWOOD IN 50 BUILDINGS is on Amazon & bookshops. Published work appears in Britain,USA and other overseas press & on-line. Following Freelance Writer of The Year award (Writing Magazine) my work has appeared in 81 titles and my FOLKLORE OF ESSEX contributed to Channel 5’s film COUNTY SECRETS. THE WOMAN WRITER was published by the History Press. This book outlines the history of the SWWJ’s 1894 foundation and includes our pioneering members in journalism, literature & poetry. Joyce Grenfell, former SWWJ President enjoys a special chapter. My books were reviewed in The Times and other dailies. As SWWJ’s archivist. I'm working on new historical research, contributing to on-line press, see my downloadable Kindle books. Also Facebook,Twitter & Amazon @sylviaakent & film/audio clips added. BARKING & DAGENHAM FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS and BRENTWOOD IN 50 BUILDINGS. I won an SWWJ scholarship and became a Fellow of the Society,winning the John Walter Salver two years consecutively. I am now President of Brentwood Writers Circle, broadcasting on PhoenixFM, BBC Essex &other radio stations.
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Sylvia Kent
Author, freelance columnist. Latest book Amberley published BRENTWOOD IN 50 BUILDINGS is on Amazon & bookshops. Published work appears in Britain,USA and other overseas press & on-line. Following Freelance Writer of The Year award (Writing Magazine) my work has appeared in 81 titles and my FOLKLORE OF ESSEX contributed to Channel 5’s film COUNTY SECRETS. THE WOMAN WRITER was published by the History Press. This book outlines the history of the SWWJ’s 1894 foundation and includes our pioneering members in journalism, literature & poetry. Joyce Grenfell, former SWWJ President enjoys a special chapter. My books were reviewed in The Times and other dailies. As SWWJ’s archivist. I'm working on new historical research, contributing to on-line press, see my downloadable Kindle books. Also Facebook,Twitter & Amazon @sylviaakent & film/audio clips added. BARKING & DAGENHAM FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS and BRENTWOOD IN 50 BUILDINGS. I won an SWWJ scholarship and became a Fellow of the Society,winning the John Walter Salver two years consecutively. I am now President of Brentwood Writers Circle, broadcasting on PhoenixFM, BBC Essex &other radio stations.
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