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Little Gems – Dinton

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Sue Vincent

One summer’s morning, back in 2013, I nipped out for milk and got a little sidetracked… I often do. You may have noticed that I seem to spend a lot of time wandering the highways and wild places with a … Continue reading →

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Soon….

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Sue Vincent

…. something was spawned up on the moor… something black that flew on dark wings…It heeds not time or place…It seem to have deveoped a penchant for the travels of Don and Wen…. “Are those two still at it?” “Apparently….”

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Kindle Countdown – Doomsday: The Aetheling Thing

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Sue Vincent

As we prepare to relese the second book in the Doomsday Series: Dark Sage, a Kindle Countdown price promotion will be running from 17th August to 21st October on Amazon UK and Amazon.com forBook One of the Doomsday Triad: Doomsday: … Continue reading →

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Through the wringer

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Sue Vincent

I have fond memories of the mangle… and the peggy tub and posser… helping my great grandmother feed the sodden clothes through the heavy rollers on washday and seeing them come out as flattened and hard lumps of cloth. I … Continue reading →

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A final day

Posted on May 26, 2014 by Sue Vincent

The three of us shared a final dinner at the Chequers, a lovely old 17th century inn, in Weston Turville, where the food is simply superb. I had been there hundreds of times before, but only as transport for my … Continue reading →

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Had we but world enough, and time…

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Sue Vincent

There is a lot still to share from the past couple of weeks… Scotland, Lindisfarne, Yorkshire and Derbyshire… let alone the past few days in Buckinghamshire. But it isn’t about the landscape, or the history or the stones and flowers. … Continue reading →

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The next few miles

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Sue Vincent

We sat in a disused church with coffee and cake, recovering from the visit to Merlin’s Mound in Marlborough; the very same church where Cardinal Wolsey, the alter rex in the reign of Henry VIII, was ordained priest. Quite apart … Continue reading →

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Sheffield on Saturday

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Sue Vincent

I would say we were up at the crack of dawn, but it was probably some time before that as an eventual glance at the clock had shown that what had felt like a long, leisurely lie in was still … Continue reading →

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Kindle offer… ends Friday

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Sue Vincent

The price promotion of these two books ends tomorrow! The Initiate: Adventures in Sacred Chromatography and Heart of Albion: Tales from the Wondrous Head. “Isn’t it odd how we keep circling the same concepts but from different angles.” “The Beast … Continue reading →

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Kindle offer – day 2

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Sue Vincent

‘You know some of the gospel accounts cannot be eye witness.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because there is only ‘the Christ’ and one other and the other is not an evangelist.’ ‘You’re thinking of the temptation.’ ‘I am thinking of the temptation.’ ‘Well, … Continue reading →

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