Category Archives: Guest post

Guest author: True George and a new book

Posted on December 5, 2019 by Sue Vincent

If someone who has never been in a psych ward were to make a visit, they would get the impression that there is nothing going on except for patients walking around like zombies and that the staff are uncaring and … Continue reading →

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Living Lore: Wroth Silver Ceremony ~ Gary Stocker

Posted on December 1, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Continuing Gary Stocker’s Sunday series of posts on the folklore, ancient sites and legends of Britain. If you have similar stories to share from the area in which you live,  please read the footnote and send them in. Obviously November … Continue reading →

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Guest author: Robbie Cheadle ~Emily Brontë

Posted on November 29, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Robbie continues her series on the Brontë family. Click the links to read about Patrick, the patriarch and Charlotte Brontë. The Brontë family Emily Brontë Background Emily Brontë was the fifth child of Patrick Bronte and Maria Branwell. She is known … Continue reading →

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Guest Author: Joanne Reed ~ The Art of Living from A Dog’s Perspective

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Dogs come in all shapes, colors and sizes. There are the posh types, the ones who come with a pedigree which can only be claimed after a thorough genetic analysis followed by careful match-making arrangements. Then you have the rest, … Continue reading →

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Living Lore: Lady Godiva ~ Gary Stocker

Posted on November 24, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Continuing Gary Stocker’s Sunday series of posts on the folklore, ancient sites and legends of Britain. If you have similar stories to share from the area in which you live,  please read the footnote and send them in. The philanthropic … Continue reading →

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Guest author: Robbie Cheadle ~ Charlotte Brontë

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Background Charlotte was the third and middle daughter born to Patrick and Maria Branwell Brontë. She had two older sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, who both died as children from tuberculosis, and two younger sisters, Emily and Anne. She also had … Continue reading →

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Guest author: Robbie Cheadle ~ The Bronte Family: Patrick Brontë

Posted on November 16, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Patrick Brontë – the patriarch In the beginning Patrick Brontë, born Brunty, was the oldest of ten children born to Hugh Brunty, a farm labourer, and Alice McClory. He grew up in the small village of Drumballyroney in Country Down, … Continue reading →

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Guest author: Trent P. McDonald ~ The Mad Quest in Fiction

Posted on November 11, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Our way forward could only be half guessed across the almost vertical gash of loose dirt and stone, the aftereffects of a major landslide. The slide had erased what little path there had been and I couldn’t see a safe … Continue reading →

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Living Lore: The Noble Impe ~ Gary Stocker

Posted on November 10, 2019 by Sue Vincent

In the Beauchamp Chapel in the Collegiate Church of St Mary in Warwick, is the tomb of Robert Dudley, Lord Denbigh, son of Robert and Lettice Dudley, Earl and Countess of Leicester (nicknamed the “Noble Impe”). He sadly died in … Continue reading →

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Cartographically challenged ~ Tallis Steelyard (aka Jim Webster) on tour with THREE new books…

Posted on November 8, 2019 by Sue Vincent

People will remember that I do sometimes lecture at the University here in Port Naain, and over the years I must have taught numerous young people. Perhaps I ought to merely say that they were exposed to my wit and … Continue reading →

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