Tag Archives: Port Naain

Still not entirely domesticated – Tallis Steelyard

Posted on August 6, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from Tallis Steelyard: I suppose it is inevitable. If two attractive unmarried ladies decide to run a boarding house, specialising in providing homely accommodation for single men; there will be gossip. All the more so when the aforementioned ladies … Continue reading →

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Poet in Residence – Tallis Steelyard

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Sue Vincent

There are two main schools of thought about debt and debtors’ prisons. The first holds, not unreasonably, that if a chap is locked up in prison, how on earth can he earn the money he needs to pay you back? … Continue reading →

Posted in adventure, Books, fantasy, fiction, Humour | Tagged bad wine, debt, indentured labourers, Jim Webster, Mutt, poet in residence, Port Naain, shifty looking gentlemen, slime | 1 Comment

Who is Tallis Steelyard?

Posted on June 10, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes: Today we welcome Tallis Steelyard to our blog. He has kindly come along with another of his lovely stories. This image is a painting by the great Frank Frazetta, an artist my … Continue reading →

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Guest author: Jim Webster – Tallis Steelyard on Etiquette

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Sue Vincent

It must be confessed that as a Poet I have to accept that I am not regarded as entirely a gentleman. I don’t think it specifically states this in any of the many books of etiquette with which Port Naain … Continue reading →

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Guest author- Tallis Steelyard aka Jim Webster… The value of money

Posted on April 1, 2017 by Sue Vincent

It is perhaps salutary to look back and contemplate the changes one has seen in one’s life. Indeed it can be interesting to look at the changes one has, by one’s efforts, helped to initiate. Some ideas have faded, others … Continue reading →

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Stilwater the Squid Wrestler from Tallis Steelyard

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Strangely enough, recently a number of people have asked me to tell them the tale of Stilwater the Squid Wrestler. At one time I told it regularly, but after a short while you realise that there is a danger that … Continue reading →

Posted in fantasy, fiction, Humour | Tagged career change, indigestion, Jim Webster, Linonopupaphobia, Port Naain, private performance, ropewalk playhouse, squid wrestling | 1 Comment

Too nice? Another tale from Tallis Steelyard

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Talopian Hearsan was one of those people I just somehow never took too. I’m not sure why to be honest; he was always polite and respectful to a poet of my status. The problem was perhaps that he was too … Continue reading →

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Technical matters are best left to skilled tradesmen from Tallis Steelyard

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Sue Vincent

I confess I rarely have many dealings with erotic novelists. This isn’t snobbery on my part, it’s just they tend to be so much more generously remunerated than a mere poet. Still I do have a friend who is renown … Continue reading →

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Another glass? from Tallis Steelyard

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Sue Vincent

You know how it happens, there are two of you sitting drinking and then, suddenly and before you know it, there are three. So we sat in companionable conversation with our new friend Edard and swapped experiences. It struck me … Continue reading →

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The Port Naain Philosophical and Debating Society for Ladies of wit and discernment – Tallis Steelyard

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Sue Vincent

As a less poetically inclined gentleman once commented, ‘My memoirs are not my confessions.’ These are sentiments I feel a certain kinship with, the duty of a poet is to draw attention towards that which is worthwhile, not to rub … Continue reading →