Mud & Stud

Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 10:40.Reading time 1 minute.

There I was, doing something completely different, when the above popped up. It’s a photocopy of the record of my place, given to me by my village friend. 1625 entry is my home. This belongs to a huge list of old mud and stud rectories, vicarages and parsonages in the county. So far – this […]

Castration and Blinding

Wednesday, 11 March 2020, 7:36.Reading time 1 minute.

There’s a theme that runs through all of Middle Ages history. A Very Ugly Theme. There seems to’ve been an excessive obsession with blinding and castrating men! This lasted up until the Renaissance – and maybe a little beyond. Hywel, younger brother of Gruffydd ap Rhys was captured by the Normans in 1098. He spent […]

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

Tuesday, 10 March 2020, 17:53.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Don’t Start! I know that this is a complete travesty of Conan Doyle’s original story but I have a soft spot for these two. Maybe an UnHolywood product but clues abound ? Doors. Black cat. Crow. Ghost. Dungeon/Crypt. PTSD. Knitting (!) Secret passages. Clock strikes 13. Euston. Spooky Music. Vaccination. Chess. Ritual. Arches. Northumberland. Shooting […]

And Cue…A HuskaMute

Tuesday, 10 March 2020, 17:16.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Or a GSD. Or any wolfie type doggie. I’ve been there. Done this. Sooooo many times. God’s Honest! How to make making a bed EXHAUSTING and nearly an hour long :o( P.S. And they do answer back/argue/challenge/disobey just like a 2/3 year old child. SMH

John Heywood

Tuesday, 10 March 2020, 17:01.Reading time 2 minutes.

I LOVE the fact that I’ve spent most of my life researching history. I LOVE the fact that a large part of the time has been spent in the 16th/17th cc. I LOVE the fact that I love proverbs/literature/poets and playwrights. I LOVE full stop. Wiki : John Heywood So many “famous” proverbs. What […]

Way Back. To March 2019 and Phil

Tuesday, 10 March 2020, 15:40.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Rewind. Repeat??? Greta Brookes : 26th March 2019 – Not Everyone’s Cup of Tea but… Or Easy Click below.

Hidden History of the British Isles – Part 11

Tuesday, 10 March 2020, 15:13.Reading time less than 1 minute.

It took ME a very long time to get to the writing of this post. And almost a year later – Whatever! Greta Brookes : 10th May 2019

Septic Peg Predicts

Tuesday, 10 March 2020, 14:55.Reading time less than 1 minute.

That this comment below will go Poof into the yt aether as soon as FEB sees it :o( And I raise you an insane Brian :o)

Meet the Ancestors

Tuesday, 10 March 2020, 14:24.Reading time 1 minute.

If there were any old red telephone boxes left in the village, I’d run in. Twirl. And exit with my undies over my trews!!! One of my closest friends in the village (no longer here. That’s her. Not the village!) did a degree course at Bishop Grossteste’s on Heritage/Archaeology/etc. She did very well. A great […]

From Constantinople to Cornwall

Tuesday, 10 March 2020, 14:02.Reading time less than 1 minute.

OK. I can do this! I WILL take on Baldrick and Team Time and MainstreamTV. What the fluff???

Brick Bonds via The Heritage Directory

Tuesday, 10 March 2020, 13:43.Reading time less than 1 minute.

“They” say 17th century. I beg to differ :o) Brick Bonds T4 – Alt-Archi-Doc-Maker. Fabulous :o)

Eddi is #1 Sidhe/Aos sí/Sith

Monday, 9 March 2020, 17:27.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Wonderful Lie :o)

The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the centre of the known world, Jerusalem. Come and be my fellow Far-Farer. Come travelling and unravelling with me through Wales, Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Russia, Constantinople, Italy, the Balkans, the Holy Land. Come and Far-Fare through every degree on my 12th century compass.