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From a solar-powered bin to HS2: the destruction of my childhood home

16 March 2019

9:00 AM

16 March 2019

9:00 AM

My mother is a classy lady. I have always known this, but it still affected me in a way I can’t quite describe to see that her handbags have bags.

I was helping to move the folks into their new home when I discovered this rather wonderful fact about my mother.

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