Marjorie Leithead

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Sunday, 30th October

30th October 2016 By Marjorie Leithead Leave a Comment

It is hard to believe that the Eyemouth International Storytelling Festival is over for yet another year! It is such a happy event and I am just so grateful to the team of very talented storytellers and musicians who support us! First of all we have Donald Nelson who has been with us since 2012 […]

Sunday, 16th October

16th October 2016 By Marjorie Leithead Leave a Comment

My daughter gets married on the 18th October, the day after tomorrow, and what am I doing? I am digging through my book boxes looking for Horrible History books because I have found a really good series of articles in “The Buzz”, published by Gladiator School Books. We all know the books e.g. “Awesome Egyptians”, […]

Sunday, 9th October

9th October 2016 By Marjorie Leithead Leave a Comment

I keep noticing articles about the film “Swallows and Amazons”, based on Arthur Ransome’s novel for children – and adults, no doubt, set in the Lake District. The film came out on the 19th August and some of you may already have seen it. I am surprised at the number of children whose parents have […]

Tuesday, 4th October

4th October 2016 By Marjorie Leithead Leave a Comment

Life is very exciting at the moment. My daughter gets married on Tuesday, 18th October, and three days later – very bad planning in respect of the wedding – the fifth Eyemouth International Storytelling Festival takes place. Our line-up has been finalised with only one change in that Tim Porteus has had to drop out […]

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