Tag: History
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Pssst… Want to know a secret?
Tom! I’ve tagged you for the Tell 5 Secrets Blog Hop! Recently, Sherri challenged me. I say recently, but I’ve altered my blogging style, and I’m now writing a few weeks in the past, so although it is very recent for me, it isn’t as recent for Sherri herself. But, I did accept…
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Time and Tide Wait for No Man
My old friend King Canute knows the above phrase very well, although his time was certainly well before the person who came up with the phrase, Geoffrey Chaucer. King Canute ruled these lands around the turn of the first Millennium in modern times, the year 1000. Geoffrey Chaucer stepped foot here about 350 years or…
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Loves of times gone by
St Valentine’s Day. A day to reminisce. A day to look back and ponder those loves from the past. Those important yesteryear moments. Sigh. Like the Lincoln biscuit. Gone but not forgotten. Round and bobbly and no longer around. Celery Soup. Tinned Celery Soup. I think that vanished from the shops some time in the…
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The Hippogryphe
Legend has it that a fantastically fast creature exists, somewhere, very well hidden.It’s speed can take it all around the world, not exactly in the blink of an eye, but pretty quickly. It can also use its speed to reach the Moon, if needed. Apparently. The creature? The Hippogryphe. Part horse, part Gryphon (more commonly…
The Mansionic Perspective 