Mostly Books, under new ownership, continues the tradition of bringing interesting writers to talk about their books. On 14th March, Tara Westover will be coming to Abingdon to talk about her recently published book, Educated.
Tara grew up in the hills of Idaho, with a father who spent his time preparing for the end of the world, a mother who worked as an unqualified midwife to the women of the community, and a brace of brothers and sisters, almost unknown to the authorities. Their father kept them out of school and hospital, stock-piling peaches as a family of survivalists who would outlive the end of civilisation.
She didn’t set foot in a classroom before the age of 17 and yet, with a great zest for learning, by 27 had earned a PhD from Cambridge University. Tara’s book Educated tells her story.
Mostly Books has more about the event and how to get tickets
Sorry to hijack post but saw this on a facebook post and thought how fantastic it was:-
From a company in Tenby called Gaz Cabs
How about some of our taxi firms offering this sort of service?
**** Customer Announcement *****
with the cold weather being due in and possible snow due some of our less abled and elderly customers may be nervous about venturing outside to pop to the shop.
Our drivers are out and about and passing most places in the area at some point on our travels. If any of the senior citizens in the area need anything; gas, electric top ups, food fetching from the local shops please do not hesitate to ask. Other than the cost of the items you require we WILL NOT charge you for this service. Please do NOT do without, we will help where we can.
Please share this so our elderly in Tenby can be helped
South Wales: Red Alert. But what a good thing to be doing.
That would be a wonderful service and we would be less annoyed with them taking up so much parking space.
I inadvertently parked in a taxi space and a woman taxi driver was screaming and threatening me.
However, another lady taxi driver, has helped me a lot.
I’m an OAP.
Getting back to topic – I’m looking forward to this event. Just read the book and it is wonderful