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Helen Wade

After a number of years working as a  television news journalist, I took a break to raise a young family. I now run my own media consultancy business.  It gives me the freedom to pursue my other interests, choral conducting, classical singing and piano.  I have qualifications and graded examinations ...

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Holiday heaven – Clydey Cottages, Pembrokeshire

June 25, 2014 By Helen 2 Comments

Sheer, luxurious, family-holiday-heaven in a beautiful spot in Pembrokeshire. That’s how I would describe Clydey Cottages. The phrase ‘rural idyll’ was invented for it. We spent a wonderful week there with our two young sons in August 2013 and wished we’d spent two.  They really have thought of everything – dreamy, chocolate-box cottages with every…

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“Gibraltarians have come into their own” – my article in the New Statesman.

March 25, 2014 By Helen Leave a Comment

My favourite meal as a child growing up in Gibraltar was “tortilla de patatas” (Spanish, potato omelette) with a dollop of tomato ketchup and baked beans.  As an adult I’m still partial to this curious, Anglo-Spanish, culinary combination, which perfectly encapsulates the hybrid nature of the Gibraltarians.  Fiercely British with a strong, Mediterranean influence, all…

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Musical legacy

December 2, 2013 By Helen 4 Comments

Music is a truly universal language that brings people and cultures together in a way nothing else can.  The power of music to stir the emotions, feed the soul, bring a tear to the eye, never ceases to amaze me.  So it was when I heard this performance of the “Ave Maria” written by the…

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Keep the beat, improve your language skills

September 18, 2013 By Helen Leave a Comment

Here’s an interesting article I’m reproducing here, courtesy of the BBC. Moving in time to a steady beat is closely linked to better language skills, a study suggests. People who performed better on rhythmic tests also showed enhanced neural responses to speech sounds. The researchers suggest that practising music could improve other skills, particularly speech….

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In my dreams

September 9, 2013 By Helen Leave a Comment

I wish the British Prime Minister, David Cameron took the same stance with the Spanish Prime Minister over Gibraltar! http://youtu.be/D6ouyeycWk8      

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Everyone lost and saved

June 30, 2013 By Helen Leave a Comment

The four words said it all.  They were on a card stuck to the back of the runner in front of me.  “I am running the Race for Life for…everyone lost and saved.”  There were many similar messages on the backs of the thousands who gathered at Epsom Downs on this gloriously sunny and warm, Sunday…

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Model train rides

May 14, 2013 By Helen 3 Comments

There’s a quiet corner of the Surrey countryside that is forever England.  You wouldn’t believe it but through an unprepossessing railway arch in Leatherhead, lies the world of the model steam railway.  On 12 days a year this 9-acre site  is open to the public for train rides run by the  Surrey Society of Model Engineers  (SSME.) …

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The Iron Lady

May 2, 2013 By Helen Leave a Comment

So much has been written about her – during her life and since her death.  Baroness Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher, Maggie Thatcher, the Iron Lady, whatever your preferred moniker, the mere mention of her name invariably got a reaction. I deliberately chose not to write about her during the immediate aftermath of her passing, for fear the…

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Beauty and the beholder

March 26, 2013 By Helen Leave a Comment

One of the Mums at my son’s school was a model. Everything she wears on the school run, no matter how ordinary, looks fantastic on her. Always. Don’t even think of competing in the “school run catwalk” I tell myself, she will always be, quite literally, head and shoulders above the rest. I then play…

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Here to serve

March 8, 2013 By Helen Leave a Comment

I was so taken aback by his words they made me stop suddenly. “We’re here to serve” said the head of my son’s kindergarten, after I’d asked to change one of his weekly sessions from Thursdays to Wednesdays. It was a simple request, admittedly, but I felt some trepidation at the time of asking. Why?…

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