May Day customs around the world In the days before plumbing on these Isles, long after the Romans had usurped the pagan festival of Beltane with their Floralalia, mistress and maiden would rise as May dawned to drench their faces in dew. The complexion must be kept ...
This is the best news I've had to share in a long time... Cheryl Snell is up and about and clicking away at her keyboard, apparently!She says she's so grateful for all the prayers and positive thoughts and good wishes of redroom.com. They've kept her going through a grim time. It seems ...
(Me in the holiday pad) El Springador waxes dogmatic about a fur-fetched purriod of history.I'm keeping a low profile today. It's that time of year again. Hundreds of athletic types pounding my beat on Bluebell Runs for charity, disturbing all my rabbits and pheasants and foxes. I'm pretty down in the mouth ...
Following last Thursday's post. an excerpt from my latest (unedited and unpublished) Marion Grace novel, THE GODMOTHER, the story of a dysfunctional family floundering in the aftermath of two World Wars in pre-Millennium Britain. Sibyl's kleptomania continued right through the early years of the Depression, seldom actual ...
In America, only the successful writer is important, in France, all writers are important, in England, no writer is important, and in Australia, you have to explain what a writer is. Geoffrey Cottrell You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. Ray Bradbury ...
William Orpen Self-portrait 1917 Following Tuesday's post, an excerpt from my latest (unedited and unpublished) Marion Grace novel, THE GODMOTHER, the story of a dysfunctional family floundering in the aftermath of two World Wars in pre-Millennium Britain. At first, she’d disliked him, and then learnt to ...
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