Et In Arcadia Ego

If y’all have done your PROPER/ Thorough/ Decades of research into Rennes-le-Chateau, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Cathars, The Merovingians (Long-Haired Kings) Ormus, Mary Magdalene, Visigoths, The New Testament, Poussin, da Vinci, Teniers, Nostradamus, Rene d’Anjou, Jehanne d’Arc, Yolande of Aragon plus about a thousand… …y’all will know to whom the building of […]

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D’Este. Sforza. Visconti.

There is something rotten in the History of Italy. I first came across the image above a veeeeery long time ago when researching my novel. It’s the coat of arms of Hercule de Rohan-Montbazon. Hercule was the father of Marie de Rohan, the MC of Weave a Garland of my Vows. Check out – The […]

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Staring at the Prison Walls

And that must be the truest metaphor ever! I’ve spent the morning in a car park staring at the outside walls of Lincoln Prison. The prison is right across the road from the hospital – where I take a dearly beloved every couple of months or so for check-ups/treatment for his chronic dermatological issues. Although…this […]

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Too Complicated

It should have been simple. Look up the name – just to check. Easy (?) The name is… Saint Paraskeva of the Balkans (also known as: Petka of Bulgaria, Petka of Serbia, Paraskeva of Serbia, Paraskeva the Serbian, Paraskeva of Belgrade, Parascheva the New, Parascheva the Young, Ancient Greek: Ὁσία Παρασκευὴ ἡ Ἐπιβατινή, Greek: Οσία Παρασκευή η Επιβατινή ή Νέα, Serbian: Света Петка / […]

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Mummified Child Skeleton : Not for the Squeamish

Having a free long weekend during my police training, I volunteered to spend three days being repeatedly murdered! LOL – not many people can start a conversation with that line :o) There was an intensive SOCO course taking place in the camp Crime Museum and they needed victims. I was given several short, sharp lessons […]

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The Pit & the Pendulum

I put a question the other day to the only person that I know who could possibly help me track down a man about whom I’ve found zero info. Not only did I get the much needed answer…..I also got a strange but Wonderful link from my mystery man to the author of The Raven. […]

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WHY ME?

A New Road? Well, TY very much. I’ll take it…said I! First hurdle – Crash and burn and put it on the to-do-sometime list. Second hurdle – Yup. Heard of them. Put them on the check-later list. Third hurdle – WHO? Never heard of him. Let me do my usual Due Diligence. Now you are […]

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The Feeling of Desperation & Panic is NOW Palpable

IT is trawling MY archives for IT’S desperate attempts at Self-Worth and Public Recognition. How sad :o( GB 24th July 2019 : How To Heal The World. And…to quote myself : Healing yourself in the present also heals all timelines. The karma of the past (the ancestors) and the future (those yet to be born.)

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Fallen at the F1RST Hurdle (?)

Oh. Bum/Bottom/Fundament! This one is going to take ALL (!?) of my little grey cells to work it out. Eeeeeeeeek. So I have The Possession of Gerasa. And I start the research and, immediately, get confronted with Judea vs Jordan and a smidge of Josephus – Jewish Wars. Sigh.

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The Blue Men of Ireland

In my extensive research for Ravens of Dinefwr, I came across many “historical” accounts of the Blue Men of Ireland. The novel starts with 2 Welsh teenagers returning to Dublin, in 1100, from Norway after they’d been exiled from Wales as young children. I KNOW who the “Blue Men” were. If you’ve watched the video […]

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An African Man in 13th Century Ipswich ?

I’m driving my family completely NUTS! As usual! I’ve got them utterly fascinated by these History Cold Cases. And – also – very irritated because I couldn’t put a name to the Narrator’s voice. Even though I KNEW that I Know that voice. Relief came yesterday about the narrator. Laurence Fox aka D.I. James Hathaway […]

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An Elusive Bulgarian Artist.

My recent battle with a major online retailer (refund still pending) has, sort of, been a blessing in disguise. Part of my new research was prompted by the Wondrous work of a Bulgarian artist about whom I can find very little information. I have no idea if he still lives. If he still works. I […]

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