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A personal account of the kindness of John le Carré
There must be thousands of people blessed with happy memories of David Cornwell, a man better known as the author John le Carré, who sadly left us a few days ago. What follows are my own reasons for being intensely … Continue reading
Jesus in Britain – prehistoric ingots of tin from Cornwall discovered in Israel
It can be shocking to discover just how quickly time can go by when one is preoccupied, and this is something I’ve experienced for myself once again over the course of the last few days. To my deep regret, I’ve … Continue reading
Stonehenge and Another Failing of Science.
Back in 2004 or thereabouts, after I’d left Wessex Archaeology and before I started my Eternal Idol site, I wrote a book on Stonehenge provisionally entitled A Glimpse of the Great Beyond, a work based on my absolute conviction that one … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquities, Dead Poets, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Stonehenge, Writing
Tagged Bluestones, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Stonehenge, The Magic of the Mind
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Echoes of War
My mind is still reeling from watching the commemorations to mark one hundred years since the end of The Great War. I don’t believe that it’s possible not to be moved by the pictures and stories that were paraded before … Continue reading
The Incomparable Rowley Irlam, Three Times Emmy Award Winner for Game of Thrones
On the night of Saturday, September the eighth, 2018, Rowley Irlam achieved a world first and thereby made history when he collected his third consecutive Emmy Award at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles. Rowley accepted this prestigious and unprecedented … Continue reading
Blueboy – A Doggy Tale
In the middle of March, 2016, roughly a week after I’d fallen so ill and while I was still struggling badly in hospital, my wonderful dog Blueboy had to be put to sleep. I swore to myself that if it … Continue reading
The Ever-Lasting Allure of the Hesperides
Over the course of roughly a decade, I’ve become increasingly fascinated with the ancient Greek myth of the Garden of the Hesperides, a wonderful retreat somewhere at the western edge of the known world in ancient times. I had hoped … Continue reading
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Tagged Bizzy Mitchell, Garden of the Hesperides, Greece, Sunset, The Hesperides, Tintern Abbey, William Wordsworth
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John Dillinger Died For You
A few days ago, I belatedly discovered that some magazines I’d bought as far back as the late 1980s had somehow survived the conflagration that destroyed my home in early March of this year. I’d almost forgotten that I still … Continue reading
Game of Thrones Prequel and Livy’s Early History of Rome
A little while ago, I was delighted to discover that one of the few books to survive the inferno that destroyed my home in early March this was Livy’s magnificent and engrossing ‘Ab Urbe Condita‘, a volume I don’t believe … Continue reading
Ordeal by Fire – Surviving an Inferno
At roughly 6.30 on the evening of Thursday, March 8th, I was lazing in my study in my home in the village of Sowton, alone and happily lost in browsing through some book or document, as I had been thousands … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC Spotlight, Devon Fire Service, Harriet Bradshaw, Home Burned Down, Home Fire, Just Giving, Red Cross, Sowton Village, Thatch Fire
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