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Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 05-09-2012, 21:56
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

When I was working on the Cornish lesbian farm, no one knew her.

Which is suprising, as it's a very tight group of women.
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 09-11-2011, 17:10
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

I don't think St. Kate of the Battlefields would ever class herself as a style icon, and nor should she. She was first and foremost a reporter. A very good one.

She might dust off her combat...
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 03-11-2011, 14:17
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

S'ok, my brain ain't wired right either.

I read it as a 'd'.

:D
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 03-11-2011, 13:51
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Maybe.

Is there a side step?
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 03-11-2011, 13:34
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Do you think they could have a go at an over-inflated, politically ambitious case?
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 03-11-2011, 13:25
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Women?

Rid the area of ladies?

I can't see that being too popular.

Heavens above.
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 03-11-2011, 12:20
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

If she was subject to things similar to this as a child, carried out in a Pentecostal church in Accrington, I'd have thought it just the sort of material a writer might use, when writing about their...
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 03-11-2011, 12:06
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

She wrote Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, indeed it was dramatised and broadcast, whilst her parents were alive.

Her mother used the press, to give her side of the story.

What 'kind' don't we...
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 03-11-2011, 07:48
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

She spoke very eloquently, even fondly, of her adoptive parents, and being brought up in Accrington, on BBC Breakfast, just now.
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 02-11-2011, 18:23
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Sorry.

Was only joking.

Didn't really think 'smart looking'.

:D
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 02-11-2011, 17:51
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Can't all be as well groomed as Valerie Singleton.

Thought myself, quite a smart looking young chap.

;)
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 02-11-2011, 16:35
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Made me laugh when she said her mum kept a revolver in the tea towel drawer.

Convinced the end was nigh.

Thought she spoke very well about adoption, and how shameful it is only sixty children...
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 02-11-2011, 13:52
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

She was interviewed on North West Tonight yesterday, too.

Saying although it was hard, she was glad she was adopted, and brought up in Accrington.
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 25-10-2011, 08:30
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Where's the photo of Ms. Winterson?

Why have you posted a picture of a young Bob Dylan?

Did he stop in Accrington for a wee up a back alley, on his way from Sheffield to Liverpool, on his '65...
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 23-10-2011, 14:34
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

It's no secret she was born in Manchester, and came to Accrington as a baby, when she was adopted.

Nearly all her biographical blurbs state these facts.
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 29-03-2010, 15:22
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Lovely.

It's nice, when the cripple finds their crutch.

:)
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 29-03-2010, 14:16
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Er....then you might have benefited from a good exorcism then.

To banish your 'crazy' demons.
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 28-03-2010, 23:33
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Forget the Acorn Trail.

Accrington could have it's own Winterson literary trail, using ancient Christian symbols to guide visitors, which ably illustrate the link.

Just leave out the five...
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 28-03-2010, 23:06
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Who you kiddin' guv'nor?

You now sound so cosmopolitanly metropolitan, it's like you were sired by Jim Davidson and Marie Lloyd.

:D
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 28-03-2010, 20:38
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Haworth has the Brontes.

Accrington has Sapphic Jen.

Perhaps a whole tourist industry might spring up because of the association, and you could move back, dress up as one of her characters, and...
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 28-03-2010, 16:09
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Did you arrive at this judgement after attending there yourself?
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 27-03-2010, 13:03
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

I saw it.

Her Accringtonian accent's still spot on, to say she's lived away from the area for the majority of her life.

She came across very well.

Intelligent and humorous.
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 25-03-2010, 18:00
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

I suppose the question of litigation depends on whether what she wrote, in a work of fiction, based on her life, was true or not.

I suppose only the people involved will know that.
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 25-03-2010, 15:11
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

Retired.

Before I 'retired'.

:D
Forum: Accrington Hall Of Fame 25-03-2010, 14:44
Replies: 265
Views: 28,252
Posted By garinda
Re: Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist

No, they only put renters in their photo-montages.

I was in a different league.

;)
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