Posts Tagged ‘Winnifred Bates’

  1. The cave hospital, at last.

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    September 27, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    ‘This hospital is in a cave.   When Felix heard, she imagined a storybook kind of cave, where dragons lurk on piles of gold at the end of winding tunnels.  Theirs is a great horizontal gash in the rock face of a hillside, an unhappy open mouth.  But its roof is solid stone.  And it won’t be far from the fighting. keep reading



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