What we do when it's dark by 4.00pm in Wales
Welcome to the (old) New Year - time for some wassailing through the dark:dressing up/ cross dressing, getting drunk and duelling via...
Hermit Days
Sorry there have been no posts here since coming back from Milwaukee. I'm looking forward to doing a series on life in Ceredigion in the...
Phew, back home ( by way of the Fens and Caerdydd!).
Really enjoyed being a groupie for Jeremy and the band at NAFOW in Milwaukee this year. Calennig have performed all over the world and...
Nanteos in America
Bant a ni !
Gwennol Ddu, Sgrech y Wrach, Swift!
Yes, of course you draw on your own experience when you write, but it is often woven into the story in a way that can surprise even...
The term "lock hospital" originates from their use as leprosariums, in which the patients
One of the things I love about doing research for historical writing is contact with unfamiliar language, ideas and sentiments. Mary...
A Queer Life in Wales - George Ernest John Powell: Dr Huw Osborne's fascinating book 'The Hi
The lovely College of Art in Aberystwyth has regular exhibitions and I found myself on my own in the silent rooms. I'd come to see the...
The Skull and the Cage
On the hill overlooking Dylife near the former drovers road nears Penycrobren, which roughly translates as “Gallows Hill” is the site...
'The Shadow of Nanteos' Trail
So many of the locations I used in the novel, set in 1750s, Cardiganshire still remain. Whilst writing the book and in writing the...
