Tag Archives: landscape

Curse of the Hay-Collar… Stuart France

Posted on January 1, 2018 by Sue Vincent

* Tyrnonos, Lord of Dyved, ruled the seven townships in a dark land. Tyrnonos was known as the Thunder-of-Water, for his mother found him in a cavern, behind a water-fall, and there was no braver man in all the realm. … Continue reading →

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Clearing Back the Years by James Elkington

Posted on December 29, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from Walking with a Smacked Pentax: The Panorama Stones in Ilkley are an oddity. Situated next to a church just outside the town centre, and surrounded by a 5 ft high steel fence with a locked gate designed to … Continue reading →

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The Other-Side of Space… Stuart France

Posted on December 17, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* So Cor and Fran retreated to the start of the green sward and replayed as accurately as they could remember the events that had led to Min’s mysterious disappearance. Fran ran on ahead and when she got to the … Continue reading →

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A Far-Flown Arrow… Stuart France

Posted on December 16, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “Where did she go?” “I dunno.” Poor Fran and Cor, in this day and age people are not supposed to disappear, or at least, not like that. They still do though. Despite their understandable confusion. Over a thousand people … Continue reading →

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Game of Stones … Stuart France

Posted on December 15, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “This must be it,” shouted Min getting excited again. If she had been a child she would have been jumping up and down on the spot. “The green sward, you mean?” replied Cor who was just as excited but … Continue reading →

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Angels, Angels, everywhere III… Stuart France

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “The nine orders of Angelic Being mattered because the divisions echoed the Trinity and because they corresponded to the nine-fold partition of the heavens.” * * “From the Empyrean in descending order the spheres were those of the ‘first … Continue reading →

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Linking the Chain III… Stuart France

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* “Despite Copernicus, the educated Elizabethan inhabited a geocentric universe whose movements were directed from a fiery, light-filled heaven, situated beyond the fixed stars, by a fiery, light-filled Super-Being.” * * “Between this, the ‘highest-heaven’, and the created universe was … Continue reading →

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Stones of the Night III… Stuart France

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* …After a longer than expected climb up the steeper than anticipated side of the plateaux, you are finally within appraisal distance of the pointed stone. Its presence, which now looms towards you, defining the false horizon, seems to demand … Continue reading →

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Stones of the Night II… Stuart France

Posted on December 7, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* …As the ferns thin you spy a wooden stile up ahead and descend the grassy-knoll rather too quickly for the conditions underfoot, trotting to the stile side, precariously, and resting awhile to catch your breath. A road runs to … Continue reading →

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Stones of the Night… Stuart France

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* You are a passenger… You stay under glass… You are driven through the city’s ripped back-sides. You leave the city’s ripped back-sides on a road which snakes through low, rough, foothills. Far on the horizon a solitary fin-shaped peak … Continue reading →