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Rapscallion Magazine

Rapscallion Magazine: December’s issue out (yes a bit late) with features, reviews and much more

Byharrymottram

Dec 26, 2023

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  • Home
  • About Harry
  • Axbridge Diary
  • Axbridge News
    • Axbridge Features
      • ACT’s early days
      • Axbridge Square
      • Axbridge Square in 1952
      • Basle Air Disaster
      • Books and wine
      • Building Cheddar Reservoir
      • Megan’s Axbridge Part 1
      • Megan’s Axbridge Part 2
      • Megan’s Axbridge Part 3
      • Progressive funnies
      • Progressive Supper 2026
      • Progressive Supper Details
      • Progressive Supper Review
    • Axbridge Pageant
      • Axbridge Pageant 2022
      • Axbridge Pageant 2022
      • Axbridge Pageant 2029
      • Axbridge Pageant archive
      • Axbridge Pageant Features
    • Axbridge Reviews
    • Book Club
    • Building Cheddar Reservoir
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    • Progressive Supper
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    • Bath Voice
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      • The Magazine
        • 2015 08 August Issue 1
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        • 2015 10 October Issue 3
        • 2015 11 November Issue 4
        • 2016 07 July Issue 05
        • 2017 01 January
        • 2020 12 Rapscallion Magazine December
        • 2021 11 November Rapscallion
        • 2022 07 Rapscallion
        • 2022 11 November
        • 2023 01 January Issue 12
        • Rapscallion Magazine 13 May 2023
    • Strawberry Line Times
      • Cheddar Reservoir
      • Features
        • 1981 floods
        • Age of the train is returning
        • Along the line in 1899
        • Banwell bombed
        • Beaching rail closures
        • Blue remembered hills
        • Bridgwater Carnival numbers
        • Bridgwater Railway Hotel
        • Bridgwater’s old pubs
        • Bristol’s own Bluebell girl
        • Building Cheddar reservoir in the 1930s
        • Burnham footballers
        • Coffee on the line
        • Fish and Chips
        • Highbridge at war
        • Highbridge Caravans
        • How far can the Strawberry Line go?
        • How to make the perfect cuppa
        • Jilted bride
        • Looking Back in Pictures
        • Miss Emily Fazerkerley
        • Old Highbridge recalled
        • Quantock memories
        • Railway workers of Cheddar
        • Renegades Carnival Club
        • Somerset’s Italian POWs
        • The Big Freeze
        • Then and Now
        • Transforming the line
        • Walk around the Res
      • Reviews
        • Reviews Music
        • REVIEWS: Books
        • REVIEWS: Books – Non Fiction
        • REVIEWS: Cinema
        • REVIEWS: food and drink
        • REVIEWS: Poetry
        • REVIEWS: talking books
        • REVIEWS: Theatre
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  • Stretchmark Theatre
    • Current productions
  • The Alternative Correspondent
    • Features
      • Confession: I was deported from Rome
      • Confession: My Night with Sasha
      • Confessions Dying for a pee
      • Confessions of a Birnbeck Pier trespasser
      • Confessions of a crash victim
      • Confessions of an art student
      • Confessions of Beautiful Brides
      • Exposed: Holiday hell
      • Exposed: Salt Path
      • Litter picking in the rain
      • Look Back: Bridgwater’s Cornhill
      • Thoughts on a perfect cuppa
      • Thoughts on a white Aborigine
      • Thoughts on Boris gone wrong
      • Thoughts on Cheddar Woman
      • Thoughts on Dodgy keepers
      • Thoughts on Litter Picking
      • Thoughts on school dinners
      • Thoughts on The Bag Lady
      • Thoughts on The Spiv
      • Unreliable Memories of Footballing nuns
      • Unreliable Memories of Maggie Smith
      • Unreliable memories: a drunk Goldilocks
      • Unreliable Memories: Mum on TV
      • Unreliable memories: Tenby Part 1
      • Unreliable Notes from Cambridge
      • Unreliable postcard from Rome
      • Unreliable Postcard: Milan Part 1
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      • Unreliable Postcard: Stonehenge
      • Unreliable Postcards: poo on a mountain
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