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Cerne Abbas

In November 2023 we travelled to the ancestral home of the Paulley family, the quaint, quintessentially English village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, south-west of London. The name Cerne Abbas comes from the River Cerne and the original Benedictine abbey that was founded there in 987. The abbey was subsequently destroyed by decree of Henry VIII when abbeys were eradicated from England as King Henry abandoned the Catholic church and created the Church of England. The main church in the village, now Anglican, is dedicated to St. Mary and was […]

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Peterson Lake, Manitoba

In July, 2013 we were fortunate to travel to Manitoba to vacation with our friends David and Kathy at their cottage on Peterson Lake, north-east of Flin Flon. The cottage is remote, to say the least. Starting from Cranberry Portage, we traveled approximately one hour by boat through the Cranberry Lakes to a portage on Third Cranberry Lake, then another hour by 4×4 vehicles through the bush on the abandoned Snow Lake railway embankment and what I would optimistically call a moose trail, and then finally unloaded everything into fishing

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