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4 Town & Around March 2019 Tel: 01485 540620 email: editor@townandaround.net
First word and understanding of others. Practicing kindness will not only make
others feel better, it can make you feel good too, so today of all days
greet others with a cheery good morning or afternoon, pay someone a
compliment, help someone carry their shopping… you get the gist.
Add to all these St David’s Day 1st, Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day
Hello and welcome to the March – more on this elsewhere in the magazine) 7th, St Patrick’s Day 17th
issue of Town and Around. March and Mothering Sunday on 31st (which is also the day the clocks go
is a pretty amazing month with forward giving us an extra hour of daylight each evening) making
much to celebrate, here’s my top six March a pretty amazing month.
in date order: Incidentally, I share my March birthday with Alexander Graham
1st: Peanut Butter Lovers’ Day I Bell; I like to think it is something to do with communication!
had to include this one, not only My thanks as always to all our contributors, photographers,
because I really like peanut butter advertisers and delivery team.
but to remember Hunstanton is Best wishes, and whatever you do, enjoy March
twinned with the 67th Special
Operations Squadron, so it’s for our
friends based at RAF Mildenhall. Elaine
And, as a little extra, you can find a genuine American recipe for
making your own peanut butter on page 52. Elaine Bird, Editor, Hunstanton Town and Around
7th: World Book Day World Book Day is the world’s biggest The Perches, 18 Tapping Close, Snettisham PE31 7FF
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Day returns this year after one of its and on Twitter @hunny_bird
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new initiatives that will help to get Printed by Mortons of Horncastle Ltd
even more books directly into the
hands of children and young people,
especially those who wouldn’t
otherwise have access to them.
Catering for all age groups, from
toddler to teen, the expanded list of 13
new £1 titles for World Book Day
2019 has been created to appeal to the
widest possible range of children and
young people, tastes and abilities.
Photo:World Book Day at Hunstanton
Infants in 2014. Remember this?
8th: International Women’s Day: With the theme of
#BalanceforBetter, International women’s Day celebrates women’s
achievements while calling for a more gender balanced world.
Celebrated since 1911 this year’s campaign says: “Balance is not a
women's issue, it's a business issue. The race is on for the gender-
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in wealth, gender-balanced sport coverage ...
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21st: Common Courtesy Day What a gem this day is; giving us all transmitted in any other form, or by any other means without written prior
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