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Sunday, June 30, 2019

Diversity and High Society in the Regency Period

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One of the projects I have had over the last year was to investigate minorities in the Regency period. It came about because I was doing m...
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

The Ghost Wood

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View of the dene from under the very large ash in the farmer's field to the south of the property. How old is the dene and wha...
Saturday, June 08, 2019

The Liberate Lawn --Wilding at the Dene

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Start of liberation June 2018 note solar powered dryer Lawn 2017, complete with buckets where I was trying and failing to captur...
Tuesday, June 04, 2019

Tips for re-creating landscapes in historical romance

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Currently I am doing the proofs for A Deal with Her Rebel Viking (out December 2019) and reading it (as well as all the other reading abou...
Monday, June 03, 2019

#30DaysWild

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Red-tail Queen bumblebee on garlic chives First foxgloves On twitter, I am participating in the #30DaysWild scheme which is bein...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

Counting some of my successes -- Great tit fledglings

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Where I spotted the Great tit fledgling hunting for food. Because when you are ecosystem gardening, your successes are not just meas...
Sunday, May 26, 2019

Learning to Embrace my Inner Nettle-Lover

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The verge outside, complete with nettle patch Nettles have been the bane of my gardening life. The dene has rafts of them. The verge o...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

A new mindfulness -- Wilding at the Dene

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Front border A new mindfulness has crept into the way I garden. One thing I am very aware about is that I have been far too quick to...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Introducing the site -- Wilding at the Dene

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Basically if I am going to talk about the dene, you will need to know about the site. We are on a bend in the road and the wooded area a...
Monday, May 20, 2019

The Penny Drops -- Wilding the Dene

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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the vitriolic words and the violent ac...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Booksweeps Giveaway

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I have a fun surprise today -- I am participating in  a Booksweeps giveaway. My SENT AS THE VIKING'S BRIDE is included in the  30 histor...
Friday, May 10, 2019

Why you should know your historian

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My reading for today started with this fascinating  New Stateman’s article on EH Carr . EH Carr is considered by many to have written th...
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Wednesday, May 08, 2019

Shooing the Crows of Doubt

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One thing I have discovered in my years of writing is that there are days the critical voices caw at your mind until you can't think bey...
Monday, April 01, 2019

Why you should read Reese Ryan's Bourbon Brothers

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Over the last year, it has been my pleasure to discover Reese Ryan and her Bourbon Brothers series. It started in a moment of solidarity -...