The Gallants Offering
There were flashes of silver that caught my eye. Ripples of silver that spun across the water and it took me a little while to figure out...
Poldark Country
I remember being just a young girl when one evening, I sat and watched the original series of Poldark. The opening sequence of waves...
Jewels in the Crown
Being able to settle into a place for a week or more at a time is a joy. It enables one, for a time, to settle in and experience the...
I am a Surrey Girl....
I am a Surrey girl. The family home of my Friswell ancestors remains standing in Ewhurst and it looks out upon the village Green. My...
How to Time Travel
In the early 1990's the novel Outlander by Diana Gabaldon was first published. It is mixed in genre; part Historical fiction, Romance,...
Digging deep at Vindolanda
Set back half a mile from Hadrian's Wall is the Roman Fort of Vindolanda. Occupied and active even earlier than the wall, Vindolanda is...
Eating my way across England
The English, lets be honest, do not have a reputation for great cuisine, however I do think this is a little unfair. Local produce here...
Digging deep for Britain
Hadrian's Wall, or as a fellow historian has nicknamed it, Hadrian's Highway, was begun in 122AD as a defensive fortification under the...
Living in the past
I sat in the midst of a graveyard today for my picnic lunch. It was not what I was expecting to do, but like the church recommissioned...
Ancestral home
There is a small market town in Devon called Buckfastleigh. It's more famous neighbour Buckfast is so due to the Abbey that is there....
