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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
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
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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Fixtures in Time
On the evening of Friday December 9th, 1994, I was just about as happy as it was reasonably possible for me to be. I had finished filming my part as the Aztec High Priest on the sixth series of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 27 Club, Crystal Maze, Dad, December 10th, Matthew Hopkins, Mediaeval jousting tournament, Memories, Portraits, Youth
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Echoes of Blick Mead at Stonehenge?
I accept that in our enlightened age, with our limited attention spans, there are stern, Procrustean strictures in place even when it comes to writing about momentous discoveries in the Stonehenge landscape, but I still can’t help feeling that journalists … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquities, Magic & the Supernatural, Uncategorized
Tagged Blick Mead, Bluestones, Mesolithic Era, Mesolithic Pits, Stonehenge, Stonehump, The Old People
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Stonehenge and ‘Super Henge’ Durrington Walls
I long ago grew weary of the hyperbole in press releases dealing with new discoveries in the Stonehenge landscape, but the latest announcement by Professor Vince Gaffney seems to be genuinely momentous. It appears that the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project … Continue reading
Posted in Silbury Hill, Stonehenge, Uncategorized
Tagged Durrington Walls, Stonehenge, Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project
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[There is] No Rest [for the Wicked Ones]
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a prolific writer and correspondent, while I’ve been an equally enthusiastic conversationalist and raconteur who, in the tradition of Samuel Johnson, loves to “have out his talk”. All these aspects of … Continue reading
Cecil the Lion
At the age of 55, I may not be universally loved by all those who have met me and my life hasn’t been a bed of roses, but I feel blessed inasmuch as my feelings of self-worth and self-esteem are … Continue reading
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Tagged Cecil the Lion, Trophy Hunting, Walter Palmer
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