Be very quiet, and watch very carefully, what you are about to see probably didn’t happen. It was probably a local myth, a tall tale that has grown with the telling, but this is the version of history that the story-teller in me chooses to believer. Things were shaky for a while. He bounced out … Continue reading The Immortal, The Poor Laws & Bloody Battle by T E Hodden
Food Journals: Your Ticket to Success by Christine Ardigo
Food Journals are a fantastic way to help with your weight loss, and also as a teaching tool. It can be a REAL eye opener if done correctly. Diet is key, and if you’re not really sure how much food you’re tak- ing in, it can blow your chances of losing any weight. How a … Continue reading Food Journals: Your Ticket to Success by Christine Ardigo
Classic Movies: Tiger Bay by Hannah Howe
Filmed during the winter of 1958-59, Tiger Bay stars Hayley Mills in her first screen role, her father, John, the ‘German James Dean’, Horst Buchholz, as a Polish sailor, Korchinsky and a host of fine character actors. Originally a novel, the screenplay was adapted by John Hawkesworth and Shelly Smith and the film was directed … Continue reading Classic Movies: Tiger Bay by Hannah Howe
International bestselling novelist Bernard Cornwell interviewed by T E Hodden
On a rainy camping holiday in the late nineties, having run out of my own books, and read my magazines to death, I took the desperate measure of borrowing one of my mum’s holiday reads, The Winter King. I didn’t know what to expect. It was about King Arthur, but didn’t sound like it was … Continue reading International bestselling novelist Bernard Cornwell interviewed by T E Hodden
Tracing the Cucumber by Millie Slavidou
A summer salad including cucumbers is a popular addition to the table, and it seems that this has long been the case; there are references to cucumbers in some of the earliest writing in English. Before you assume, however, that this means the word comes from Old English and a Germanic route, I should point … Continue reading Tracing the Cucumber by Millie Slavidou
A Fond Farewell: Flash Fiction by DM Wolfenden
The stairs are never ending. Her thighs burn. She can’t stop. Another flight, her heart hammers in her chest. The five-pound pack on her back feels like it weighs twenty. Flight twelve. She attaches the device to the handrail and flips the switch. Bright red numbers flash in the dull stairwell. Ten minutes. Every breath … Continue reading A Fond Farewell: Flash Fiction by DM Wolfenden
A Horse’s Pentathlon by Jill Hughes
In the equestrian world, the three-day event is seen, by many, to be the pinnacle of equine supremacy. Why would be this be so? Simply put, the three-day event tests all of the innate skills of the horse and of horsemanship by combining three equine events into a challenging series of obstacles that tests not … Continue reading A Horse’s Pentathlon by Jill Hughes
