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Discovering Albion – day 4: Off the Motorway…

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Sue Vincent

We’d done well so far. We deserve some credit for that. For once we hadn’t deviated from our original, if somewhat vague plans. It was never going to last. Like all good stories, we’d decided on a beginning a middle … Continue reading →

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Solstice of the Moon: A Last Adventure II

Posted on November 27, 2020 by Sue Vincent

We knew the story. Both James and Paul himself have told how it was found, when Paul and his brother, exploring the moors as children, had come upon the strange passageway…and how the smaller of the brothers had been ‘encouraged’ … Continue reading →

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Solstice of the Moon: A Last Adventure

Posted on November 26, 2020 by Sue Vincent

It is not every day that you can go on a real adventure to see a genuine, bona fide mystery, but that is exactly what we were going to do on the last day of our trip. We had been … Continue reading →

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Solstice of the Moon: Colours of Faith

Posted on November 25, 2020 by Sue Vincent

We were up early next morning and were cheerful about an email we’d had, telling us that the friends we had found over breakfast on our first morning in Scotland would be joining us for the December workshop in Derbyshire. … Continue reading →

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Solstice of the Moon: Desormais…

Posted on November 24, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Desormais… henceforth… that is the motto over the gatehouse at Skipton Castle. It was probably the first word of French that I learned as a child and almost certainly the first I remember seeing written… even though it is written … Continue reading →

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Solstice of the Moon: Pure Magic

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Sue Vincent

“!!!” The distinctive smell of tortured gears wafted into the car. It was not surprising. The lane we had chosen after the road closure, was not only so narrow we could not have passed an oncoming rabbit, it was also … Continue reading →

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Solstice of the Moon: Halfway to Paradise…

Posted on November 22, 2020 by Sue Vincent

The misty morning had turned into the most glorious autumn day as we left Glen Lyon and headed towards Loch Tay. We wanted to try and get a shot of the crannog that has been built on the lake at … Continue reading →

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Solstice of the Moon: Frustration…

Posted on November 21, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Sir Walter Scott called it the “…longest, loneliest and loveliest glen in Scotland…”, but to me, our all-too-brief foray into the outer reaches of Glen Lyon was pure frustration. It has absolutely everything you could possibly imagine or want in … Continue reading →

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Solstice of the Moon: Fragments of History

Posted on November 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Outside the porch of the kirk at Fortingall stands an ancient font. Local legend states that Coeddi himself may have used it to baptise some of the first Christians in the area when the monks of Iona founded a sister … Continue reading →

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Solstice of the Moon: Stories Unknown

Posted on November 19, 2020 by Sue Vincent

We had driven to Fortingall to see the venerable yew, but it just happens to be in the grounds of a church, so it was inevitable that we would take a look around. We do seem to spend a lot … Continue reading →

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