Biography
The Valet’s Tale
My name is William Carew and, until recent events unfolded, I was the valet to Sir Thomas Stradling of St Donat’s Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan. I entered his service while he was [more…]
Blog
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Seventy Three
“What do you mean, my family?” “Your wife, grown up children, their families, how far do you want us to go?” If what had gone before was horrific this was worse, the flat way this [more…]
Christianity
Job – Striving to Understand
This is dedicated to a fellow GP poster who saw a close friend die a horrible and early death of cancer only recently. His comments on this tragedy moved me deeply and inspired me [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Seventy Two
“Mistress Bowson?” He was thin, grey haired, bespectacled, scholarly looking, “Abbot Winwaloe wants you to know that the Exarch and Archimandrite wish to meet you tomorrow morning. Please don’t be alarmed. The Abbot will be [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Seventy One
Later that evening when she relayed his thoughts on Sam to Martha, the older woman broke down, confessing her fears for her adoptive son: the soul tarnishing effect of killing for any cause, the girl’s [more…]
Arts
English Alabaster
On a mini-break to London some years ago, we decided to have a look round the Courtauld Gallery (in the old Somerset House, which used for decades to be the central registry of birth, marriages [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Seventy
THURSDAY, SECOND WEEK AFTER EASTER Curse them, just one network remaining intact and the shreds of a second now being reorganised. How long before those captured at the training base began spilling out names [more…]
Arts
Painting Things
Around Easter in 2017 I got hold of Warlord Game’s skirmish game set in ancient Japan, Test of Honour, bit of a bolt from the blue really. Bought it as much to support my local [more…]
Fiction
The Unseen Path – Part Sixty Nine
“Mistress Bowson, how are you, your son, the Yazidi girl? Are you still content where you are staying? Have you been studying the books I lent you?” “So many questions at once.” He smiled again [more…]