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Two Heads . . .: January 2015
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Two Heads . . . Thursday, 1 January 2015. Walking through history . Writers often extol the virtues of walking t. O get the brain working. I try to get out for an hour or so each day, though the weather at this time of year does not always help. So any clear day must be taken full advantage of. Near Elizabeth I's oak in Greenwich Park. A royal park since the 15th century). Looking towards the River Thames through the Old Royal. Naval College, (built in the early 18th century). 1727-1760) up for the winter.
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Two Heads . . .: October 2014
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Two Heads . . . Tuesday, 21 October 2014. Phidias' workshop - using real places in fiction. Last year in the summer, I prepared part of this posting. I didn't finish it because I have been looking for a particular reference (see second to last paragraph). As you can see, I had a wonderful trip in 2013. A mixture of holiday . Part of the research was another visit to. Ancient Olympia. I went to have another look at Phidias' Workshop. I took liberties with its design in The Boy with Two Heads. No one seeme...
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A Case of Writer's Blog: May 2011
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A Case of Writer's Blog. Tuesday, 31 May 2011. I hope you're teaching Quality. I have discussed genre elsewhere, and have always said, what matters is quality. Now how do you define Quality? Sarah … came trotting by with her watering pot between those two doors, going from the corridor to her office, and she said, "I hope you are teaching Quality to your students.". . Why else would people pay fortunes for some things and throw others in the trash pile? I am at the age where I can no longer be bothered w...
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Two Heads . . .: February 2015
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Two Heads . . . Sunday, 8 February 2015. No triremes on the Solway. These days I'm rather boring to other people. My daily routine is: write and research in the morning, walk in the afternoon, do domestic stuff in the evening. Even my research isn't exciting on its own, though lately I've been learning a lot about Ancient Greek warships called triremes, which could be of interest to some (see below). On the way down to the beach and a milky-looking sea . I found snowdrops right beside the road. Even the ...
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Two Heads . . .: February 2014
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Two Heads . . . Thursday, 20 February 2014. Those Ancient Greeks follow me everywhere! Reproduction in the Royal Ontario Museum. Of Phidias' statue of Athena,. Finished 438 BC for inside the Parthenon in Athens. Not long ago, I was in Toronto, Canada, spending holiday time with family. They had asked me to stop thinking about writing for a few days, as we don't see each other very often. 'No problem,' I said. 'No writing.'. We decided to go to the Royal Ontario Museum. Y, and look who I found! One court ...
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Carla Nayland - Fiction
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Novels by Carla Nayland. Is available as a paperback and e-book from Amazon.co.uk. And bookshops should be able to order copies. It is also available from the Book Depository. Free worldwide shipping). Several e-book formats including Kindle, Epub (Nook, Sony Reader) and Palm are available from Smashwords. Signed copies (limited stock) available direct from the author, contact me. Is published by Trifolium Books UK. Is available for download as a free e-book, or to buy as paperback. Britain, 605 AD.
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Carla Nayland - Offsite Links
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Here are some offsite links. I'll add more as I find them. Regular postings, mainly on reading, writing and researching historical fiction, but it can cover anything that interests me. Independent publisher of historical fiction, based in Cumbria, UK. Independent specialist bookshop in Edinbugh, UK. Author of children's and young adult fiction in a variety of settings, including Wolf Girl. Set in Anglo-Saxon Whitby. Author of several historical novels in a variety of settings, including Lord of Silver.
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Raising a Hue & Cry – Esmeralda's Cumbrian History & Folklore
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Esmeralda's Cumbrian History and Folklore. Snippets and longer bits on Cumbrian history and folklore. About Esmeralda’s Cumbrian History. May 21, 2015. Raising a Hue & Cry. We complain about the police all the time. As if their role was to apply a governmental rubber to all the ills we see around us and those ills are usually, going by a radio programme I heard just before the recent UK general election litter, noise and People Who Aren’t Like Us.*. View from the East Fellside towards the Lake District.
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Cumberland: Land of the Cumbri, or Britons – Esmeralda's Cumbrian History & Folklore
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Esmeralda's Cumbrian History and Folklore. Snippets and longer bits on Cumbrian history and folklore. About Esmeralda’s Cumbrian History. September 10, 2014. Cumberland: Land of the Cumbri, or Britons. 8216;Britain’, of course, is as Tim Clarkson says in this excellent post. Not a political entity but an historical one, describing an island off mainland Europe. That’s the whole island, north to south, east to west, and it includes a whole bag of ethnic micro-identifiers, ancient and modern. I’d lik...
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Back to the Future – Esmeralda's Cumbrian History & Folklore
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Esmeralda's Cumbrian History and Folklore. Snippets and longer bits on Cumbrian history and folklore. About Esmeralda’s Cumbrian History. April 28, 2015. Back to the Future. Do you want to know where I’ve been since September? For the benefit of those of you outside the UK, we have a weird telephony heritage. For much of the 20. This is how I feel about this subject. Ofcom tell me that the national average broadband speed is 17.8Mbit/s but ‘superfast’ broadband is now reaching an average ...This meant th...
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