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Where?
The news is full of the tragic mystery of the missing aircraft, lost, it is believed, in the southern Indian Ocean… maybe… The media is full of speculation and photos of dreadful seas, despairing...
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Washed away
I was born and brought up in the east of the country, and our nearest seaside was the Norfolk and Suffolk coast and we would go on holiday there, to a holiday camp which if you have seen the British TV...
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1497
John Cabot is celebrated in Bristol as a hero and an extraordinary adventurer. He was a Venetian merchant who crossed the Atlantic not long after Columbus’s voyage and probably made landfall on Cape...
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A pretty unusual name
We were getting a replacement freezer yesterday, and the lady in the shop was very helpful and while we were waiting for all the paperwork I couldn’t help but notice her name, Avonia. I was interested...
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Wrecks of the Pentland Firth
I’ve been busy doing some background research for my latest novel, as I mentioned a while ago. One of Thomas Radwinter’s ancestors lost his brother at sea… all fiction of course, but I wanted to make...
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Swept away
I’ve been to Iceland twice, and can’t wait until the next time I’m able to visit… I have nothing planned, but I fell in love with the island and would love to visit again and travel further. Iceland is...
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Taken by water
Having been a water baby myself, and much of my childhood taken up in, on or by the water, by rivers and streams and the sea, I love and yet am wary of the element. I have always been safe, thank...
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All that was found was his couch
I’m not going to comment on any of the recent political events, nor mention the extraordinary betrayals, double-dealing and back-stabbing that has gone on, on every side, however, I’m sure it is just...
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A sad story
When I started the 50,000 word novel-writing challenge, I was very hazy as to which way it would go, how it would go and whether it would go at all! I really don’t think I am going to complete, but it...
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A thing happened in 1667…
I’ve always been interested in history, enjoyed it at school and went on to do A-level history; I did a degree in History and English, and have continued to read about past events, visit sites of...
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