Category Archives: TOLL

Flying Kites…

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Stuart France

*** … The church of St Lawrence is surrounded by Yew trees and as we leave the grounds I see a flash of red arrow from tree to tree very low as if coming in to land. I burst through … Continue reading →

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An Unexpected Encounter…

Posted on January 29, 2023 by Sue Vincent

We took to the backroads again, nodding to Drake’s statue as we passed through Tavistock once more, climbing up towards Dartmoor. On our way south, the mists had closed around us completely and we had seen little more of the … Continue reading →

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Labour pains…

Posted on January 21, 2023 by Sue Vincent

*** The clock is ticking, time inexorably moves us closer to the launch event of the Silent Eye… in a little less than three weeks… We are flat out getting everything ready… and of course, this is precisely when I … Continue reading →

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Stepping stones

Posted on November 26, 2022 by Sue Vincent

I was thinking about one of my favourite places today, and while for me it is the high moors, there are other things to see in Ilkley. As a child I used to love stepping off the train into the … Continue reading →

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Dark Fantasy…

Posted on November 22, 2022 by Stuart France

  * First a formless mass of light, then the firmament of stars, then sun and moon, then sea and land, then reptiles, and birds, then beasts, and man, and then, contemplation… * If the ‘candlestick vision’ which opens the … Continue reading →

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Coming Soon…

Posted on November 19, 2022 by Stuart France

* A DARK FANTASY… *

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Sheela’s Mystery Solved?

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Stuart France

County Meath, Sunday, 31st July 2022… *** *** Perhaps, like the ‘tomb raiders’ at Dowth, we are looking for treasures of the wrong kind, in the wrong place? *** She’s at the base of the stone on the right! *** … Continue reading →

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Of kings and stone…

Posted on November 16, 2022 by Stuart France

County Meath, Sunday, 31st July 2022… *** *** All roads lead to Tara as they say. * Or at least all the roads in Ireland. *** *** But like so much else that we have considered on this trip what … Continue reading →

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Dowth…

Posted on November 15, 2022 by Stuart France

County Meath, Sunday, 31st July 2022… *** *** The dowdiest of the three Boyne Monuments but, in some ways, the friendliest. * No time restrictions, no imminent threat of film-show dread, no waiting bus, full of chattering strangers… * Just … Continue reading →

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Kells…

Posted on November 14, 2022 by Stuart France

County Meath, Saturday, 30th July 2022… *** *** “Three’s are important,” she said. * And they are, so we can take it that ‘ol’ stubby’ from Killinaboy does not count in our tally of round towers. *** *** The brick … Continue reading →

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