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Nottingham - A community Fun-Fair. The spirit is not dead yet.

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Sherwood Rise Community Fair Keeping up the community spirit is difficult in a society where moving homes is so common. When you are in your 30s and you moved more than three times, you are not likely to feel the community spirit of your locality.  The Tin Forest So, the true magic and a trick is to keep a community spirit in a truly medieval manner ( in a positive, enchanting way) in a place where most of the households are on the 'move' - in and out. And this is what one can experience in some parts of England. Truly amazing, fan loving fairs. A variety of things to see, touch, eat. On a one sunny September afternoon we heard a rumble from a nearby 'green' place. Curious, we stuck out our noses along with the rest to see what's the noise all about. We have lived on the street for only two months now (moving in and out is our speciality).  Human Fruit Machine Just round the corner is a very small Hedley Villas Park on the Sherwood Rise area in Nottingham. Small but

Daresbury - Adventures in Wonderland

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Among the vast plain of Cheshire, on the A56 way, south-west of Warrington, lays Daresbury , a two-streets tiny village of around 250 inhabitants. It would be a countryside sleepy surround if not the unconventional things that have been happening there. The village seems to have a knack for multi-dimensional exploration . First - it is the birthplace of Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There , one of the first enigma and fantasy novels, having a huge impact on generations of readers to this day. He had been inspired by some local legends . On the opposite side of the A56 is a large scientific facility, Daresbury Laboratory . It is the UK's forefront in world-class and cutting-edge research in nuclear physics , computing, AI , bio-medicine, chemistry. It could be named 'the Local CERN ' as it also deals with the tiniest particles in the Universe and is  partnering with the CER