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Field-Mouse… Stuart France

* Field-Mouse was out gathering wild-beans for winter when Buffalo came down to the meadow to graze. ‘He will mow down the long-grass with his prickly tongue and there will be no where left to hide,’ thought Field-Mouse, ‘I will … Continue reading

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Blade ~ Bobby Fairfield #writephoto

A time of despair lay cold breath upon the land. While Lord King Arthur retired within his chamber, sat alone, in cuckold’s grief. No consolation could he gain, from grieving wife, or courtly knights, Continue reading at Bobby Fairfield

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Forever Falls… Stuart France

* I was here When Ronald took the hot seat. I watched from afar, Appalled, When he called Diana, David And stumbled over lines which in His day of hay He would have chewed like baccy. Continue reading at Stuart … Continue reading

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Something round… Stuart France

* “How old is it?” “How old is what?” “The Turnip Lantern Tradition?” * * “It is truly ancient.” “That is good.” “There appear to be others who agree with you.” * * “A heartening sight.” * Continue reading at … Continue reading

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Pieman… Stuart France

When Pieman was very young, and living at the beginnings of time, he often slept with the Cave Bear Clan during stormy weather. * Over the course of many such nights, Big Brown Bear who was also very old, taught … Continue reading

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The Hooded Stone… Stuart France

“It has to be the Stone on Gardom’s Edge…” “What does?” says Wen. “My Robin Hood Stone… I mean it didn’t look much like the stone on Gardom’s Edge but that could have been the angle.” I study the sketch … Continue reading

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The Lost Stone of Chat… Stuart France

“There is a stone which would be worth visiting. It is in Baslow which is on our way to the Symposium so we could stop off there, grab some lunch, check out the stone and then head off to our … Continue reading

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Time Wise… Stuart France

…I turn the gwid-byll over in my fingers. It is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. It is a sphere of worked and lined stone which shadows forth in raised nodules indicative of the triad. It is heavy … Continue reading

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In-and-Out of Time… Stuart France

* ‘Joseph of Arimathea a wealthy Metal Merchant first traded here for lead and copper from Priddy and Greenore in the Mendips, and for tin from Cornwall. The two former would ship from Pilton’s Harbour which was situated just below … Continue reading

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Only to build with… Stuart France

* “It doesn’t work quite so well with stone.” “So it woud seem, but it might have once before we became so ‘stone-blind’.” Continue reading at Stuart France

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