Category: The World
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Eh? No f!
ſo, today is Monday, Decembre the Twelfth, in the yeare 2011. I’ve decided to wryte as I would have wrytten back in the ſeventeenth century. Well, almoſt. Its not at all eaſy, what with the ſpecial character for the letter ‘s’ that was uſed back then. The normal letter ‘s’ was alſo uſed, which made…
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Storm Front
Blustery winds and teeming rain Torrents of water flow The roads are more like rivers Swirling and weaving as they go Trees are almost bent in two As the gale-force wind howls by Raindrops pound the ground below From the dark and turbulent sky Visibility is virtually nil The road ahead is grey The wind…
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Snow!
I was rudely disturbed from my sleep at just before twelve thirty this morning by an almighty explosion just outside Aquatom Mansion. I shot out of bed with break-neck speed and peered through the bedroom window, expecting to see a scene of carnage and devastation. But things looked normal. Another rolling round of thumpa-thumpa-thumpa sounded,…
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Otherwise Engaged…
Things have ‘kind of’ taken off on the hectic scale around here of late, so posting on the blog has had to, unfortunately, take a back seat. I will return to full blogging duties in due course, both here and the various blogs that I visit elsewhere in the Universe. I will be tinkering with…
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The Princess Royal
My quest to find as much information as I can about (and surrounding) the year 1642 has brought new information to me today. For a while now, I thought that I had reached a ‘brick wall’ in my search, as only information that I was already aware of was finding it’s way to me. I…