Sfumato History Project

Thursday, 21 March 2019, 14:31.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I’m thinking of renaming my ‘Stuff.’ The Sfumato History Project…..” Sfumato is a painting technique for softening the transition between colours, mimicking an area beyond what the human eye is focusing on, or the out-of-focus plane.” a) Because I love saying the word. S-FOO-MAH-TOE […]

Oh, Fork it. Spam, Spam, Spam.

Monday, 18 March 2019, 8:10.Reading time 2 minutes.

I am reading a “first-hand account” of a trip taken in 1253 to meet the Golden Horde in Mongolia. It’s very interesting but… I had to stop at the mention of FORKS. Why? Well, my mainstream history books tell me that us barbarians in Great Britain did not use forks until the French Princess, Henriette […]

Tartaria, Mud Flood and Russian Bots

Wednesday, 13 March 2019, 13:57.Reading time 1 minute.

I am not into public dissing. We all have an opinion. But today I watched something that…. PISSED ME OFF. An “open-minded” sceptic talking about Tartaria. Included in the piece were these phrases about the Tartars and Tartar researchers – “White-supremacists” “Started by Russian bots” “Tartaria always comes with Flat Earth and Mud Flood” “Manipulated […]

United We Stand. Divided We Fall. Is the Truth Community Imploding?

Friday, 8 March 2019, 17:51.Reading time 1 minute.

We have a saying in our family. “You can’t do right for doing wrong.” I don’t live in an Ivory Tower. I keep in touch daily/hourly with what is happening OUT THERE. And I am worried. I am sad. I am disappointed.,,,with what is happening OUT THERE in the “Truth Community”. It seems to be […]

Voices

Saturday, 2 March 2019, 16:20.Reading time 1 minute.

I’m feeling very philomasophical today. OK, I know – I just stole a Homer Simpsonism. Anyhoo, Voices. I am a HUGE fan of audiobooks. Like everyone else, I am much too busy to sit down and read for hours, like I used to as a kid. So, I carry on doing all the mundane stuff […]

The Sack of Constantinople – 1204

Monday, 7 January 2019, 10:04.Reading time 2 minutes.

The Sack of Constantinople – part of the Fourth Crusade – is always described as a major turning point in Medieval History. It has perplexed many people for a long time. Few can agree on the reason why the brilliant, elite Crusaders of North Western Europe stopped at Constantinople and never attempted to move forwards […]

The Fisher King and Dionysus

Saturday, 5 January 2019, 18:18.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Shoot. My brain is working overtime on thoughts for today…. Are The Fisher King (Wounded in the thigh) and Dionysus (born for the second time from Zeus’ thigh) connected??

Adrenochrome & Dionysus the Twice Born

Saturday, 5 January 2019, 17:45.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I was always a huge fan of the TV programme Inspector Morse. I have read all of Colin Dexter’s Morse books. After Dexter killed off Morse, the TV company revived the stories with Lewis. I love, loved, still love this series too, But one Lewis episode disturbed me. I know why now. It dealt with […]

Historical Fiction: Research & Writing – Episode 1

Saturday, 4 August 2018, 7:48.Reading time 8 minutes.

My own personal views on the subject.

Researching and writing Historical Fiction, for me, is truly worthwhile and life-affirming.

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.