Monthly Archives: March 2019
THE LONGSHIPS LIGHTHOUSE Have you ever stood on the cliff top above the majestic Celtic Sea? Have your lips tasted the briny ocean spray? Have you been touched by its rugged beauty and breath-taking views? Close your eyes and allow your imagination to soar. “However, their westward gaze will, in all probability, be drawn from the distant horizon to focus on a line of rocks barely a mile from where they stand, on top of which rises the shapely symmetry…..
Shiver me timbers! ‘Ave ‘e ever ‘eard of Mark Mixstow? Reverend William Penfold? Lady Killigrew or the Barbary Corsairs? No? Well listen ‘ere me hearties …….. we’ll start with the lady. Lady Killigrew of Arwenack ~ During the sixteenth century the Killigrew family gained notoriety by seizing ships, taking the cargo, and selling both to finance their lifestyle. Although not Cornish by birth, Mary Killigrew, daughter of Philip Wolverston (a “gentleman pirate”) of Wolverston Hall in Suffolk, married Sir John…..
No two writers are alike when it comes to finding your perfect writing space. It needs to suit you, to be individualized to create a comfortable space, be it in the garden shed, a tea shop, coffee shop, pub, cupboard or a room in your house with a good lock on the door. I do most of my writing in an office my husband created for me in our home, but it didn’t start there. The first ten chapters of…..
Welcome to my homeland of Cornwall, Great Britain, on St. Piran’s Day when all Cornish people across the globe will come together to celebrate our National Saint’s Day. Bounded to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and largely separated to the east from the English County of Devonshire by the River Tamar, Cornwall is the homeland of the Cornish people and the cultural and ethnic origin of the Cornish diaspora. It…..