"Life's like a jigsaw: you get the straight bits but there's always something missing in the middle."
Andy Partridge, song lyric (All Of A Sudden, 1982)
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- Mold, Flintshire, United Kingdom
- I am the editor of a website devoted to ghosts and folklore in Britain, Uncanny UK. I am the former editor of 'Paranormal Magazine' and I have written five books, including 'Haunted Wales', which is to be republished by the History Press in 2011.
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