Category Archives: Spirituality

A Thousand Miles of History XXXVII: House of the ancestors

Posted on September 7, 2018 by

Our next stop was only about half an hour’s drive from the Templar Church, and the road took us through the silent green of Bodmin Moor. With a long drive still ahead, I restrained myself, albeit barely, from turning aside … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Miles of History XXXVI: The Templars and the lawless church…

Posted on September 6, 2018 by

Our hotel the previous night had been just off the main highway across Bodmin Moor… a perfectly good modern road that would take us where we wanted to be by a fast and direct route. We were never going to … Continue reading →

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Success? … Stuart France

Posted on September 5, 2018 by

* …”When it comes to the end of life you have to have something to call your own,” Bill slipped his arm through mine. The soft twill of his well pressed jacket warmed my bare flesh. “Something you’ve come up … Continue reading →

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Following the feeling…

Posted on September 4, 2018 by

Have you ever done something completely illogical, just because it ‘felt right’? Chances are that you have, and that it turned out that listening to that inner, elusive prompt was the best decision you could have made. In bypassing the … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Miles of History XXXII: The wells of the wishing tree…

Posted on August 30, 2018 by

“Ooh!” My companion, well used to the consequences of such exclamations, braced himself as I swung the car off the road we were supposed to be taking and onto a narrow lane. The sign was intriguing and, although we had … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Miles of History XXX: The one with the hole…

Posted on August 27, 2018 by

We had intended to visit this and another site on our way to Hayle the previous afternoon, but the map that has thus far led us without fail across Britain had refused to cooperate. It had been a long and … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Miles of History XX: Ghosts in the wildflowers

Posted on August 10, 2018 by

We headed back the way we had come, to take the narrow turning we had missed…a fortuitous misstep which had allowed us to see Cape Cornwall. We were looking for an old tin-mining site where, once upon a time, something … Continue reading →

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Riding the rollercoaster

Posted on July 31, 2018 by

The day did not start well, either for me or the little fish I had to remove from the tank. It was no surprise that it was dead this morning… it had been looking a little off-colour the night before, … Continue reading →

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Nature Versus Nurture?

Posted on July 22, 2018 by

“Ewww!”said my younger son, screwing up his nose and making terrible, traumatised faces as he drank the small glass of milk with about as much relish as if it were arsenic. “Straight from the udder?” “‘From moo to you’ it … Continue reading →

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Priest of the Sun III…

Posted on July 17, 2018 by

Maiden Castle – Dorchester * … “Whither goest thou, Priest of the Sun?” “I go hence to the High Place for the soul is in need.” “What is that need?” “The need is Light.” “And what will you give for … Continue reading →

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