Dydd Owain Glyndwr: last in a long line?
Our summer holiday just beneath the castle walls in Tutbury near Derby were a revelation in many ways (see previous Blog), not least...
Did you come back changed by your summer holiday?
Tutbury is now an attractive small town in Staffordshire and the venue for our long awaited extended family holiday this year ( thanks...
Y Gog!
Yes! Heard the cuckoo for the first time this year today, regular as hiccups from the horse field. For days, even weeks now the 'blodau'r...
Pasg Hapus - so much more hopeful than last year, at least
Not yet six and still dark on the morning of Maundy Thursday on a small holding in Ceredigion and a already the birds have started their...
The Scold's Bridle
This International Women's Day I'm feeling like I've dodged a bullet! Let me introduce the brank's/ gossip's bridle, used against...
One in 7.8 Billion
I had fun writing about the two babies that feature in The Dipping Pool and was thrilled to have the first new baby in our family for...
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i chi gyd! Let's get some discipline in here!
First day of 2021 and maybe foolish, rash and certainly optimistic, I've given myself a task: a book in a year. I wobbled and wasted...
Only one book shop left in Wales!
Dear Friends, The last post of 2020! First of all - thank you! It's been so great to have sales, clicks, hearts, thumbs up, interested...
The Georgian Christmas
Georgian Christmas was very much all about parties, balls and family get-togethers. The Georgian Christmas season ran from December 6th...
Yorkshire's Ripper
I never knew him; his life never ruined mine. Yet the news of his death is a small sharp stone eased out from the sole of a worn shoe,...
