Tag: History
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The King and the Candlelight
I’m still feeling historical, but a creative urge has now joined the mix, so I decided to have a go at painting a right royal portrait. So, I painted and I tweaked. I tweaked and I painted. I coloured and recoloured. And tweaked. And painted. And tweaked again. And lightened and darkened. I had a…
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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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Aphorodíta
Aphorodíta, Cast in marble Watches through the years Yearning, Waiting, For Phoenicia, Her land to reappear One Phoenician, Her Phoenician, Adonis, she waits for too But cast in marble She waits forever For that’s All she can do. Behind the marble The story’s different, They live on forever more Even in the Underworld, even if…
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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…
The Mansionic Perspective 
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