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The Link Magazine • August 2002 41
Getting high on laughter Lydiard Village Society JUST THE JOB
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Eunice Salmon from Nine Elms, coordinator of the Swindon Twin Peaks Domestic Services Agency
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It was a bit like a long distance neatly with his Roman Catholic Th 1tI
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it brought out the best in everyone On arrival back home, many
as we supported each other people made comments on how
through campsite night time tem- brave we were, but I can't see it
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severe sickness and diarrhoea. honour and privilege to be there
There were fantastic sites along trying to raise funds and aware-
the way, each one leaving us won- ness in a battle to combat a dread-
dering how and why the Incas ful illness. And yes Ros and I found
managed to build their fortresses, ourselves being 'told-off' for gig-
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