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Nancy Thompson’s vintage fruit press wasn’t broke — but it still needed fixing.
Her modernised version of the 1928 gadget is now on sale through her online business, Vintage Kitchen Appliances.
The Bermuda resident started working on it 18 months ago...
DATE: Nov 25, 2014
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It’s been 47 years since Suzie Lowe left Malawi, but the country is still working its magic over her.
Ms Lowe is a mixed media artist who makes African-inspired masks, as well as chunky bracelets, earrings and ceramic fish.
“My masks are African infl...
DATE: Nov 24, 2014
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Trying to find a job at 71 isn’t easy.
Richard Powell got creative.
No-one would hire him after he and his wife moved back to the Island two years ago after several years living in the US.
The former taxi driver and photographer could have returned t...
DATE: Nov 21, 2014
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Home & Away
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At the airport in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Aliea Kamara could not hug her friends goodbye or even shake their hands.
It was only then that the reality of the Ebola epidemic hit home, despite having been there for several months supervising the buildin...
DATE: Nov 20, 2014
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Get writing.....the annual short story competition at The Royal Gazette is underway.
The Royal Gazette’s Christmas Short Story Contest has been running now for over a half century; generations of local writers have submitted stories. Now it’s your tu...
DATE: Nov 20, 2014
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You couldn’t pay most women to go bald, but nurse Roslyn “Wally” Simmons had her price: $3,650. That’s the amount she raised for cancer charity PALS by chopping off 12 years worth of dreadlocks. She presented the cheque to PALS this week.Ms Simmons w...
DATE: Nov 19, 2014
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That Paris is referred to as the City of Light is lost on Parisians — they all wear black.
It’s something that struck Bermudian Tiffany Smith when she moved to the city three years ago. Her view hasn’t changed since.
Everyone here wears black, day an...
DATE: Nov 18, 2014
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Home & Away
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Jessie Moniz Hardy
What better way to celebrate the Bermuda Festival’s 40th anniversary than with rubies.
Artist Alexandra Mosher is selling a special butterfly pin containing a single ruby to mark the event.
“The butterfly symbolises its metamorphosis to embrace the ...
DATE: Nov 18, 2014
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Aida was an award-winning Broadway hit. Why not bring it to Bermuda?
Berkeley Institute students are hoping to replicate that success when they perform Aida next month — the school’s first musical in several years.
Set mostly in Ancient Egypt, it cen...
DATE: Nov 17, 2014
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What better way to reflect Bermuda’s charm, than with an actual charm?
Adrienne Cotterill thought it was a great idea and created a line of lockets she dubbed Bermuda Charm.
Each contains Bermuda beach sand and a tiny charm such as a crab, turtle or...
DATE: Nov 17, 2014
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