A Celtic Sidhe : The Grand Awakening

Monday, 15 June 2020, 10:58.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Colette has been reminding me for a very long time to love, embrace, be grateful for – every single FIBRE of MY CELTIC soul. I love this Lady to pieces :o)

Bleak House

Sunday, 14 June 2020, 9:48.Reading time 1 minute.

I am NOT and never will be a fan of Charles Dickens. After being “programmed” to memorise Great Expectations at the age of 15 for my Eng Lit exam. (Although Miss Havisham, Pip, Estella and Magwich have never left me!) And – this very day (Sunday 14th June 2020) – I’ve been reminded of Bleak […]

Time For Work

Saturday, 13 June 2020, 10:37.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Bored now with sociopathetic Looney Toons and their psychopathetic doolally – ness. Time to work :o)

HGS

Friday, 12 June 2020, 16:27.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Greta Brookes 1 second ago Dear HGS, I have a very old copy of Steiner’s book Colour. It might be a F1RST edition. I’ll have to check. I might be “in the money” :o) Thank you

Death of a BORE

Friday, 12 June 2020, 15:56.Reading time 2 minutes.

OMG. I crack myself up sometimes :o) NO WORD OF A LIE… …I was listening to this audio book last night. For about the 20th time! Not bored to death but murder most foul . . . Celebrated author John Heppel is known in Lochdubh as a self-important bore, prone to belittling the scribblings of […]

Princess of ORANGE

Wednesday, 10 June 2020, 9:34.Reading time 2 minutes.

Yep. Back with the Orange! Way back when I was on FB, I used to communicate with the author above. I’d just read this book of his… ** Mary Magdalene in Provence, France ** Ralph Ellis follows the trail of mythology and reveals compelling circumstantial evidence that Mary Magdalene did travel to France, and that […]

P O E T S Day #2 : Roman de la Rose

Saturday, 6 June 2020, 17:01.Reading time 1 minute.

Hey. I can get away with this. Tomorrow is Sunday, yes? Wiki : Roman de la Rose This is a fancypants Frenchified early version of many books like the much more dour John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. It even pre-dates the great Chaucer tales (!?) And yes. I have the book. I’ve read the book. I […]

Demeter vs Demeter

Saturday, 6 June 2020, 13:48.Reading time 1 minute.

Wiki1 : Demeter Wiki2 : Demeter Check it out ? So. We have Demeter, one of the 12 Olympian Gods. Goddess of the harvest, agriculture, fertility and sacred law. And we Demeter, the RUSSIAN ship (ships are always “female” ?) that brought 50 boxes of Transylvanian soil to Whitby. In a fierce storm. With all […]

Ian Fleming

Wednesday, 3 June 2020, 11:49.Reading time 1 minute.

YepWiki : Ian Fleming I suggest you read up about Fleming ? ! In my humble opinion, Ian Fleming did more damage to several generations of men (&women) than any other modern writer. The Child Catcher ? James Bond ? He loved cold, twisted, Underground, lonely, single, emotionless, Action Men. His influence on Dorothy Dunnett, […]

Just How Low Can “IT” Go ?

Tuesday, 2 June 2020, 12:47.Reading time 1 minute.

OK. SO. All I wanted to do was go to my Kindle books and take a screenshot of the page where I wrote about Buckingham laying a single tulip at Anne’s feet. Guess What I find ? The book that took me many years to write (the F1RST Draft was over a million words, so […]

Strange Blooms

Monday, 1 June 2020, 10:26.Reading time 3 minutes.

In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of ‘curious’ gardeners were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son were at the vanguard of this change – as gardeners, as collectors and above all as exemplars of an age that began in […]

CURTAIN

Thursday, 28 May 2020, 12:05.Reading time 1 minute.

For me, this has always been the MOST bittersweet of Agatha Christie’s novels. If you know the book, you’ll understand the bitter part. The sweet part – in my humble opinion – is the fact that one of the characters is based on Shakespeare’s Iago from Othello. Yes – Iago. The character that I love […]

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.