Dickens for Sepia Saturday [Sepia Saturday is a group I take part in ever week where the host puts up a photo each week as a prompt for other members - see last photo below for this week] For me there could only be one interpretation ... Read more

  National Library Day Saturday 4 February was National Library day in the UK. I had the pleasure of attending Stockton Central Library for a talk and book signing by Peter Robinson, the creator of the Inspector Banks detective/mystery ... Read more

The postman's been and gone; now it won't be long before the New Year arrives with a bang. Back in 1945 when I was young you were prompted to make Prior to the revolution you might have even received a card (if you lived in Russia)... Read more

Thoor Ballylee  (By Dr Charles Nelson - CC A-SA 2.0) The 16th century Ballylee Castle stands near the town of Gort in County Galway. The castle originally belonged to the De Burgo (Burke) family before becoming p... Read more

The facade of Herstmonceux Castle (By Brian Raine - Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 generic license) Herstmonceux Castle, in East Sussex, has had a chequered existence and like many of England’s it has it ghosts.... Read more

A Plum Job   Visitors to the Glastonbury Festival probably don’t give a thought to the fate of Richard Whiting. As an old man convicted of treason he was hung, drawn and quartered on Glastonbury Tor.   When Henry VIII and Tho... Read more

A headless white lady wandering in the ruins chills the blood of those who encounter her at Corfe Castle, Wareham in Dorset. Corfe Castle  (by Robert Goulden - Geograph Project Collection - CC A-S A 2.0 license) ... Read more

"Off all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn." (from A Tree Song by Rudyard Kipling: full poem/song at Kipling) Trees must be a favourite topic for me because this is my se... Read more

If you fancy some online editing practice Dickens Journals Online is the place to go. I've signed up for their Online Text Correction Project and am in the process of editing a magazine published by Dickens in All The Year Round in 1864.   The... Read more

Old Wardour Castle is located near Shaftesbury, Wiltshire in South West England. The Castle was built by John, 5th Lord Lovell on land previously owned by the St Martin family. Old Wardour Castle Photo by Mike Searle (image f... Read more