Regency Ramble

Here we are moving along rapildy in the second year of the Regency, and it is time for another look at the fashions. This is a really qu...

If you are following the Olympics you will no doubt have noticed that Weymouth in Dorset, on the south coast of England, is the venue for so...

Hands up if you have ever seen a Punch and Judy show!  I have nearly always seen them at the seaside in Britain, pretty much as you see this...

Falmouth was one of the last places we visited on our trip to Cornwall. The Cornish word for Falmouth is Aberfal. Together with Carrick...

Gosh, blogger has changed again. Hopefully this post will work the way it is meant to. First, my  book, the Haunting of Beresford Abby is f...

Back down the mine, here is a miner having his tea break. And this next is a video. You will not see anything, it was too dark, but yo...

Back home, it all seems a bit of a blur, but I had to share this picture of the book signing. I had two books to sign, Lady Rosabella'...

 #RomanticTimes Convention Here we are, the Harlequin authors, at Celebrate History, Action and Homtown Heroes setting up for our wonderfu...

RT Booklovers Convention in Chicago - April 11. 15. I hope to see you there over the next few days but if not look for my photos here on th...

Want to curl up with a book this Easter Weekend? Ninc has you covered.  Novelist Inc has published Cast of Charcters an Anthology with  a ...

Now we have the technical details, or at least all we need, let us do a little exploring. The first thing we came across was a shammeling ...

Last time we talked about how tin mining started on the surface, in streams.  The people who undertook this kind of mining were called stre...

Do you remember the series Poldark?  About tin mining families, set during the late Georgian period.  Well it just so happens that the book ...

Wardour Castle (Continued) In the 18th century, Wardour Castle became a romantic ruin to a new house for the Arundel's built across t...

It was too soon for Mary to send Sally a letter, too much to ask her to pay for so little news. I wrote this today in my current work in p...

It came as quite a surprise when I discovered that the story I did for the Royal Wedding last April, is now coming out with the other storie...