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Donny O’Rourke & Mavis Cheek

Snowdrops

Donny O’Rourke celebrates Imbolc in the East Neuk of Fife, and Mavis Cheek finds that writing comes easily. Donny O’Rourke welcomes the tentative beginnings of spring, introducing us to the Gaelic festival of Imbolc and taking us on a whistlestop tour of the coastal East Neuk of Fife. Mavis Cheek explains how writing always came easily to her, even when schoolwork didn’t.


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