Category Archives: france and vincent

Never Look Back… Stuart France

Posted on March 17, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* The first thing to remark, apart from the increased Avian Activity Quotient… Was, the difference an hour makes. * * Was it simply the movement of the sun? The progress of the day… Or had the site responded to … Continue reading →

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Striding Out… Stuart France

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* Big-Chief Red-Wood and the Ochre Stair… The Science-Men are adamant he was never there. Even if he was he would not fit into any of their boxes. All that’s needed now is a good Earth with lots of foxes! … Continue reading →

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The Legend…

Posted on March 12, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* Deep in the heart of Derbyshire… *   * A single, eerie light shines out from Langsett Towers… * Continue reading at France and Vincent

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Free Passage?… Stuart France

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* ‘It’s easy,’ she had said, ‘you believe the other-world to be greater than this one…’ ‘Do I?’ ‘You believe those that have passed can still see you…’ ‘That’s true.’ ‘…but you can’t see them?’ ‘Not ordinarily, no.’ ‘So there … Continue reading →

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Ribbons of light

Posted on March 2, 2019 by Sue Vincent

“There was a rainbow waiting for them above the barrow. Its head was lost in the halo of cloud which mirrored the encircling hills.If the landscape itself is the grail of legend, then the hill is the jewel at its … Continue reading →

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Space Time…

Posted on February 23, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* ‘…You may as well know now you are far more likely to see the spiritual than you are to read it. The spirit came first and we learned to see before we learned to read. It is nigh on … Continue reading →

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Time travelling: St Wystan’s

Posted on February 16, 2019 by Sue Vincent

We finally made it through the outer door of St Wystan’s church in Repton…and stopped. Two huge columns flank the inner door and, scattered around the porch are fragments of ancient masonry. carved medieval grave slabs and Saxon crosses. It … Continue reading →

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Time travelling: Ivar the Boneless and the Bone-yard…

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Repton today is no more than a small Derbyshire village, but once it was the capital of Mercia, one of the most powerful realms of its era. For three hundred years, Mercia encompassed most of what would eventually become the … Continue reading →

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Time travelling: The ghosts of Repton…

Posted on February 14, 2019 by Sue Vincent

After our visit to the wonderful church at Breedon, with its wealth of carved Saxon stonework, it seemed only right to call at Repton, less than ten miles away… and probably much closer in the days when horse and foot … Continue reading →

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Time travelling: Ancient sanctity

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Sue Vincent

We entered through the porch door, surprised to find ourselves in a kind of antechamber. From the outside, there is no suggestion that you will be anywhere other than in the main body of the church and I had forgotten … Continue reading →

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