Hidden History Research

“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”

An English Tudor Hall 400 years old

Thursday, 29 August 2019, 12:58.Reading time less than 1 minute.

This is in my local city. An amazing “Tudor” building. A cafe. P.S. The food struggles to reach Average! I’m severely confused by the black and whites now. The archetypal English Tudor buildings. Shakespeare’s house in Stratford is (imho) claustrophobic. Low ceilings. Tons of beams to bang your head on! I got told off […]

Gone Fishing!

Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 12:15.Reading time less than 1 minute.

We have a natural man-made pond (?) here. Very similar to the picture above. This is the third time in recent years that it has flooded. Bloody rain. Fishies went swim about and had to be rescued. Never a dull moment ;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.