Tag: 1642
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Three Days Later

Or two days, depending on how you look at it. I’m still having problems getting on to WordPress, but apart from mentioning the fact that there’s a sticky on the Support Forum I’m not going there. Things will be resolved shortly. Probably. Hopefully. Apologies for the lack of replies from this part of the world,…
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It’s that time again!

I’ve just been reminded / refreshed / introduced to something that is as old as time itself. Jo Bryant, Blogstress at Chronicles of Illusions has told me today, in a comment on a recent post about me remembering a Viking celebration, that this coming weekend marks a significant milestone in the history of the world.…
Tom
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Hints from the past

My ‘pull’ to 1642 doesn’t seem to be as strong as it once was, for some reason. The memories I had of the ships haven’t come back to me for quite some time now, and the references I continued to ‘stumble’ across have also stopped cropping up. I can’t say that I’ve found out anything…
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John Johnson and the Winter Queen
During the cooling latter days of the year, a pesky plan was afoot to cause a right royal commotion. A servant by the name of John Johnson was using his utmost stealth and skill to smuggle and store gunpowder into a cellar, in readiness to blow up both the King of England and Parliament. He…
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All From A Rainbow
It’s amazing the things that you come across when simply browsing th’internet. Today, we have a New Moon, which is all well and good. At the time of the New Moon, we don’t get to see the Moon at all; only today we had a spectacular appearance of her. Well, some of us did. A…