Category Archives: adventure

Discovering Albion – day 7: Wings and a Prayer

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Sue Vincent

It was eleven o’clock by the time we emerged, a little dazed, out into the sunshine. The ground was still frozen and shaded patches of frost lingered. Otherwise, you would have thought it was spring. We strolled through the burial … Continue reading →

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Time Before Time…

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* ALL-HAIL EVE Anu’s Folk studied in the North-Isles. Four seats there And four sages who taught them; A plentiful sowing… A dutiful flowing… A beautiful glowing… An artful knowing… * Wen catches a brief sight of the poem I … Continue reading →

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Discovering Albion – day 7: Sarcophagus and Standing Crosses

Posted on December 27, 2020 by Sue Vincent

I think both our jaws must have hit the floor as we hit the jackpot. The third room of the little museum seemed to bring together all the threads of the skein that we had been following on our travels. … Continue reading →

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Discovering Albion – day 7: Into the Crypt

Posted on December 26, 2020 by Sue Vincent

We wandered into the cloisters, following the signs for the ticket office. The ruins are free… but there is a small museum and a tower. The museum we were not too fussed about seeing, but it just shows you… never … Continue reading →

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Ars Geometrica: Six…

Posted on December 26, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* …The rest of the Night and into the Dawn is something of a blur for us. One can only take in so much after all. We continued to turn the leaves of the little book… Leaf ‘Six’: Operation One: … Continue reading →

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Discovering Albion – day 7: St Andrews… the Abbey

Posted on December 25, 2020 by Sue Vincent

We didn’t go to the Roman Catholic Cathedral where the relics of St Andrew are now housed. We were here to see the ancient places where they had once been… lost now to time, buried perhaps somewhere in the vast … Continue reading →

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Beyond the bounds…

Posted on December 25, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* It is not beyond the bounds of possibility, that a technologically advanced people could live more simply than their technology insists… * But outside the realms of science fiction writing it is highly unlikely. * The Ancients present us … Continue reading →

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Discovering Albion – day 7: The Elasticity of Time.

Posted on December 24, 2020 by Sue Vincent

According to the map we covered another two hundred miles that day. More, if you take into account that we did it all on the back roads , being very gentle with the ailing car and sticking to the coast … Continue reading →

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Ars Geometrica: Great Work…

Posted on December 24, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* …Not that we were going to let that stop us. The next two leaves of the book can be taken together and it was these entries more than any others perhaps which gave us inkling that the book may … Continue reading →

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Discovering Albion – day 7 – Dawn on the Sea

Posted on December 23, 2020 by Sue Vincent

We’d been well fed again and liberally doused with Edinburgh spiced orange gin… so I fell asleep on the sofa and was sent to bed yet again. I’m useless. Next morning we were on our way, taking an early leave … Continue reading →