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The Unknown Enemy.Chapter 10.
Chapter 10. Where Calm Turns to Watchfulness. Prince Mardan read the message from King Syldan twice, his face pale. He returned to the dining room...
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Amanderella and the Gooseberry Mystery. Chapter 9.
Chapter Nine. Shovelock Ellis. The Peer’s motor‑vehicle shuddered to a halt outside a narrow Marylebone townhouse whose windows were so clean they...
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Amanderella and the Gooseberry Mystery. Chapter 8 Part 2
Miss Harbottle eyed the pig. “It looks as though it might bark.” “Nonsense,” the Peer said. “It weighs. Tail wags if it beats the record.” But...
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Amanderella and the Gooseberry Mystery. Chapter 8.Part 1.
Chapter Eight. Mrs. Gaffletter’s. The cab drew up outside Amanderella’s landlady’s with a soft crunch of gravel. Gas lamps glowed politely along the...
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The Unknown Enemy.Chapter 9.
Chapter 9. The Order That Can Not Be Ignored. Just after dawn, Smike returned to the throne room. King Syldan looked as if he had been up all night...
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Distance.
Posted on Fri, 11 Sep 2026
My mistake. Should have been 200 miles, but in 1912 that would have taken her 2 or 3 days which is a bit awkward for the story. Artistic licence? Though it could be read that she was going to her parents which is about 50 miles north of London...
Read full commentPosted in Amanderella and the Mystery of Wittering Crags.Chapter 2.
Mrs. Gaffletter
Posted on Sun, 12 Jul 2026
Based on my landlady when I was at University.
Read full commentPosted in Amanderella and the Mystery of the Disappearing Vicar Chapter 1.
Ring Cycle
Posted on Wed, 14 Oct 2026
I hope this is a little more subtle than the Lord of the Rings.
And if you want to k now something really sad, I threw away a first edition copy of The Hobbit years and years ago when my family moved house and I had to reduce my book...
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Egg boxes
Posted on Wed, 30 Sep 2026
I once made a very large model of Smaug with a class using egg boxes. It burned a treat on Bonfire Night/
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Films
Posted on Sat, 26 Sep 2026
Probably not. The last film I ever watched in a Cinema was one of the early James Bond Films sometime around 1964/5/6. Not a great cinema lover now and rarely watch films on TV. actually rarely watch TV at all.
The problem with stories, to...
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Second story
Posted on Thu, 24 Sep 2026
This is the next Sophrayni tale.
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Thank-you
Posted on Mon, 14 Sep 2026
Altered to Bridie in the original.
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Food
Posted on Sun, 13 Sep 2026
And yes I am aware that the food is rather more haute cuisine than one might expect, but it was to highlight the difference between the pies, flat hats and whippets view of Mrs Gaffletter and her parents.
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The feathers
Posted on Sun, 23 Aug 2026
They started when we were walking with one of our granddaughters when she was tiny. She picked up a feather and carried it round and eventually gave it to me, so I stuck it in my hat brim. From there is just escalated and now people in this town...
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Flavoured!
Posted on Sun, 23 Aug 2026
Probably, but that must happen if one has read and remembered an awful lot of (and a lot of awful) books. At least I have refrained from scouring the local maps for names (Georgette Heyer did that) or the Graveyard for character names (Beatrix...
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