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Morwenna's Tower: Eagle Huntress
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Saturday, 31 December 2016. So her dad, who was brilliant, and supported her all the way, took her out to catch her first fox with her eagle. It's a wonderful film, full of beautiful photography, and narrated by Daisy Ridley, who played Rey in The Force Awakens earlier this year. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sitting on the Iron Throne. The Secret of Saynshand. Lost Treasure of Ytir. Like Father, Like Daughter. The Folly - Rivers of London series. Adventures with the Wife in Space. Tansy RR SF blog.
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Morwenna's Tower: March 2016
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Thursday, 31 March 2016. On Friday morning, we went in search of the free bus service that serves the town centre, but it was a bit of a long way to walk to the bus stop by Oxford Road railway station (the first railway station in the world! With my Young Man still needing his crutch, so for the rest of the weekend we got taxis either way instead. I could definitely get used to helpful staff phoning for a cab which arrives within five minutes every time I want one! He also gleefully described the way he'...
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Morwenna's Tower: April 2016
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Saturday, 30 April 2016. Trowelblazers - Annette Laming Emperaire. This was a French archaeologist, who also joined the French Resistance during the Second World War. She specialised in cave art, and her techniques for recording the art are still in use today. In the 1970s, Annette returned to South America, digging in Brazil, where she discovered the oldest human fossil known from Brazil, at around 11,000 years old. In 1977, she died of asphyxiation in a shower with a defective gas heating element.
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Morwenna's Tower: December 2016
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Saturday, 31 December 2016. So her dad, who was brilliant, and supported her all the way, took her out to catch her first fox with her eagle. It's a wonderful film, full of beautiful photography, and narrated by Daisy Ridley, who played Rey in The Force Awakens earlier this year. Friday, 30 December 2016. I've just been watching the "Good Morning! Clip from Singing in the Rain. What talented people they were - Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds and Gene Kelly, all tap dancing together. The scene shifted fr...
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Morwenna's Tower: May 2016
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Tuesday, 24 May 2016. Do not despise the snake for having no horns - who is to say it will not become a dragon? Sunday, 22 May 2016. Trowelblazers - Helen O'Neil and Elsie Clifford. Following her husband's death, Helen returned to live at Camp House, and became closely involved in archaeology in the county. In 1968, she recieved an MBE for services to archaeology, and published work in the Bristol and Gloucestershire archaeology journal from 1934 to 1977. Although a close associate of such well-known arc...
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Morwenna's Tower: September 2016
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Friday, 30 September 2016. The Rihannsu Novels of Diane Duane. Back in the 1980s, I was a big Star Trek fan, and one of my favourite authors (in that time when there was very little commercially available apart from novels and re-runs of the classic TV series) was Diane Duane. I saw her several times at conventions, and she was always great fun. She even gave me some good writing advice once. But the main character over the series is Ael i-Mhiessan t'Rllaillieu, commander of the Bloodwing, who joins forc...
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Morwenna's Tower: An 18th Century Indian in England - Sake Dean Mahomed
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Saturday, 14 January 2017. An 18th Century Indian in England - Sake Dean Mahomed. He married an Irish girl, Jane Daly, who he met while living with Captain Baker in Ireland. Her family were opposed to the match, so they eloped in 1786, and Sake converted to Anglicanism as it was illegal for non-Protestants to marry Protestants at the time. In 1794, he wrote his first travel book, The Travels of Dean Mahomed, in which he described several cities in India as well as military conflicts in India. Another gra...
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Morwenna's Tower: June 2016
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Thursday, 30 June 2016. Just when I was thinking things couldn't possibly get any worse in the world, I discovered that Gordon Murray, the creator of Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley, has died. He was 95. There's another part of my childhood gone forever. Gordon Murray also operated Spotty Dog in the Woodentops. I loved Spotty Dog when I was three. Saturday, 18 June 2016. They also have a poster for sale of Pueblo Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Art. Now there's a story I'd like to read! Trowelbl...
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Morwenna's Tower: Trowelblazers - Edith Hall Dohan
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Tuesday, 3 January 2017. Trowelblazers - Edith Hall Dohan. Later, she taught archaeology at Mount Holyoke College, while continuing to dig in Crete on behalf of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, then known as the Free Museum of Science and Art. At Vrokastro, she became the second American woman to direct a dig on Crete, and the third in Greece. In 1912 she left her teaching post to work for the Museum full time. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sitting on the Iron Throne. The Secret of Saynshand.
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