Owl of Athena

Monday, 4 November 2019, 16:58.Reading time less than 1 minute.

5 to 5 here. Dark. And the owls are calling. I just heard ’em. Wiki : Owl of Athena

Romeo and Juliet

Monday, 4 November 2019, 15:55.Reading time less than 1 minute.

“O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest – A dammed saint, an honourable villain!” Or Heaven 17. Don’t Fear THE REAPER Mixed up music/literature […]

I Love a Challenge

Monday, 4 November 2019, 15:22.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Unfortunately I am being FORCED to Apologise. AGAIN. The pattern is so familiar. I say the Wrong thing. at the Wrong time. in the Wrong place, with the Wrong person lurking at my shoulder.. Instantly boobtoob goes down and mayhem abounds. I’m just devastated that it followed on to Trinity 4 and his beautiful wife […]

La Terra Á Piatta

Monday, 4 November 2019, 14:21.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Family Globe Busting in Bella Italia. Oh. YES. Molto Bene :o)

Katrina & the Waves

Monday, 4 November 2019, 14:13.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I’d apologise but…! Some will SEE. Some willn’t. Not MY problem. Anyone up for an Interview with a Vampire?

REturn To Sender

Monday, 4 November 2019, 13:15.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Well. You can tell it Mercury REtrograde. Everything is a RE – RE: My EngLit Exam…a REally long time ago. This was one of the books we REad and got examined on. I REfuse to say anything about the REmarkable Actor heRE.

Kiss of the Whip

Monday, 4 November 2019, 9:38.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Y’all may get the wrong idea about me but…m’eh! It’s called RESEARCH! On my shelves, sitting right next to the earlier “Kinky Boots” book recommendation, is this one. The Kiss of the Whip, the Horrors of Centuries of Whipping. All those vicars who lived here before me will be shaking their heads in despair.

Goosey, Goosey, Gander

Monday, 4 November 2019, 7:35.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Uh, oh. I’ve just been goosed. Have very dare you? Goosey goosey gander, Whither shall I wander? Upstairs and downstairs And in my lady’s chamber. There I met an old man Who wouldn’t say his prayers, So I took him by his left leg And threw him down the stairs Nursery rhyme first “recorded” in […]

OTTOMAN WARSHIPS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN ARMADA OF 1538

Monday, 4 November 2019, 4:25.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The Anonymous Venetian? Oooh. The plot thickeneth, forsooth and perchance? :o) OTTOMAN WARSHIPS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN ARMADA OF 1538

The End of Our Humanity

Sunday, 3 November 2019, 1:15.Reading time less than 1 minute.

How to Write a Story 101

Saturday, 2 November 2019, 16:18.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Yup. That oldie writers’ adage. Chekhov says it well enough. That’s why you’ll never know if I’m speaking Scottish or English. Really real or just AI :o) You cannot hear me. No tongue.

MY WHOLE LIFE…

Saturday, 2 November 2019, 16:04.Reading time less than 1 minute.

…I have been ignored and/or told to shut up. Very, Utterly, completely DONE with that vibe. ‘Specially when the ones you love most do it to you time and time again. Guess What, sleepy kids – I am a HIGHLANDER through and through. Born in the elements, at one with the energies. We SEE […]

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.