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 A WORD FROM YOUR EDITOR
Christine Jones
Hello & welcome to the February/March 2024 edition of
Chatterbox Magazine!

Hello and welcome to the February/March 2024 edition of the magazine. I have to
confess that I am no lover of the Winter and I find it gloomy, expensive and
everyone including me usually have a spell of not feeling well, with all the many
bugs going around this year it has been worse than ever! So I hope this issue finds
you all healthy and if not I hope I can cheer you up a little! Anyway back to reality
and time to say thank you to all of my readers and subscribers who not only
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children's author with her new book "A Poetic A to Z of Awesome Animals." You can
find out how to order a copy in this edition. Thanks go to our writer Christine All enquiries about content and
Stafford, who has provided us with another interesting 'Down To Earth' page and advertising to Christine Jones
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