Topiarist elves (and a bit of garden history) by Carolyn Hughes I was prompted to write this post by a moth. A box moth, to be precise, lik...

An example of a Roman Emperor Being a Roman Emperor is hard; what with a daily inbox brimming with problems that desperately require solutio...

Publisher: Amberley Books  (Images Jamie  Robinson) I was very excited recently to be able to go to a real, live event hosted by wonderful W...

    Opening up the draft of my neglected historical fantasy, I step once more into that mid-Victorian setting. At once I am faced by a stran...

 Exmoor is easily bypassed by travellers to the south-west: most people head straight on down to Devon and Cornwall, to Dartmoor and Bodmin ...

By Susan Vincent A few years I was assailed by middle age. As with so many others, it took the form of family history. Being from A...