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Eyes closed in slumber
The long slow life of stone waits
The awakening
Eye to eye, eyes opening
My soul is bared before them.
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The photo for this week’s prompt was taken beneath Robin Hood’s Stride in Derbyshire, a is a mysterious outcrop of rocks that seem out of place in the rolling hills and fields. Stuart and I have visited these stones on a number of occasions and this landscape formed part of our Riddles of the Night workshop last December. Just across a track that has been there since time out of mind is another outcrop, an ancient settlement site with some very strange features, including a hermit’s cave. And, as if that wasn’t enough, the two outcrops form an astronomically aligned triangle with a stone circle. The workshop took in several other enigmatic landscapes and opened a whole can of worms for us to research that led us through the stories of knights, saints and ley lines, to our adventures at Haddon Hall and beyond…
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Thank you so much to everyone who took part this week. All the posts are listed below, so please click on the links below to read them and leave a comment for the author! Thank you too, to everyone who reblogged the prompt, round up and the individual resposes!
A new prompt will be published later today. I will reblog as many contributions as space and time allows, as they come in… and all of them will be featured in the round-up on Thursday.
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Many thanks to this weeks contributors:
Luccia Gray from Rereading Jane Eyre
Jan Malique at Strange Goings On in the Shed
Hayley R. Hardman at The Story Files
Dorinda Duclos at Night Owl Poetry
A Thousand Shades of Awesomeness
Varad at Loose End of the Red Thread
Sisyphus at Of Glass and Paper
Fandango at This, That and the Other
Joelle LeGendre at Two on a Rant
Anurag Bakhshi at Jagahdilmein
Ritu Bhathal at But I Smile Anyway
Helen Jones from Journey to Ambeth
Vivian Zems at Smell the Coffee
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Wonderful collection Sue!
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They just get better too 🙂
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They really do!
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Reblogged this on The Militant Negro™.
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Thank you 🙂
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Amazing.. Thanks so much..
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🙂
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Lot of great posts here. Yet to read them all. Will hopefully complete over the weekend.
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Thanks, Varad 🙂
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Thanks for the info about these stones.
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It is a great place, Jane 🙂
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It must be.
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Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Thanks, Michael 🙂
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Reblogged this on anita dawes and jaye marie.
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Thanks for sharing, Jaye x
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