Tag Archives: Derbyshire

Green grow the rushes O III… from Stuart France

* …If Tee’s study was the hub of intelligence, then Miss Hunnyfludd’s office, which comprised no more than a hastily compromised ante-chamber to its plush superior, was the heart… Thomas Welch was currently making himself at home in the heart … Continue reading

Posted in fiction | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Green grow the rushes O… from Stuart France

Reblogged from Stuart France… The Grand-Father Clock, tock…tock…tocked reassuringly in the corner of the oak panelled study. Through the window to one side the ancient time piece’s Big Brother could be discerned dominating the metropolitan sky-line… Tee, was wilfully oblivious … Continue reading

Posted in Books, Photography, Stuart France and Sue Vincent, The Silent Eye, workshop 2016 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Philology by Stuart France

Reblogged from Stuart France: * The Camel Mind * * bound, it wanders… Continue reading at Philology

Posted in Ancient sites, The Silent Eye | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Morphology… from Stuart France

Reblogged from Stuart France: * The image of myself * * I have made… * * is part of my environment… Continue reading at Morphology

Posted in mystery, Photography, Spirituality | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Where the stones whisper…

Reblogged from The Silent Eye:   “They say the stones sleep. That they are old and forgotten… voiceless. Is it so, little sister? Are they silent…or do they dream, the long, slow dreaming of aeons. They were old when they … Continue reading

Posted in Sacred sites, Spirituality, The Silent Eye | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Time to kill

We were feeling quite pleased with ourselves after finally finding the stone circle. We still had a little time to kill before the meeting at lunchtime when we would hook up with our fellow director and one of our Companions, … Continue reading

Posted in Ancient sites, Books, writing | Tagged , , , , , | 48 Comments

The Hooded Stone…? from Stuart France

Reblogged from Stuart France, an excerpt from one of our books, Scions of Albion: “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 … Continue reading

Posted in adventure, Ancient sites, Books, Don and Wen, Doomsday: Scions of Albion, History, mystery, Photography, Sacred sites, Stuart France and Sue Vincent, travel, writing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Underground – photo prompt

High on a heather-covered hilltop, we were looking for a stone circle. Instead, we found what looked very like a weathered burial mound… not altogether unexpected in an area where ancient stones and circles abound. What was unusual was the … Continue reading

Posted in Photography, writing | Tagged , , , , , , , | 57 Comments

Whispers

Posted in Photography, Poetry | Tagged , , , | 10 Comments

A new day

Winter usually creeps in slowly, almost unnoticed, as autumn slows to its end. Not this year. On Thursday I headed north wearing a short sleeved T-shirt. On Friday I drove back from the meeting through a blizzard. Temperatures had dropped, … Continue reading

Posted in Books, England, nature, Nick Verron, Photography, travel, workshop 2016, writing | Tagged , , , , | 48 Comments