Dick Turpin – Highwayman - was hanged. Image from York Dungeon Born: 21 September 1705, Hempstead, Essex Died: 7 April 1739, Knavesmire 32 years old, died on the scaffold – yet still known to this day,

Pictures from Google - free to use - search Oh dear, it's been a while since my last Truth or Fiction, hasn't it? Here The last story, about the demise of my first car, was partly true, part-fiction. My

As night fell, Eloim awoke and climbed out of the root cellar to find the old woman again sat in front of the fire. As he walked over to her, she grabbed a small sack and stood up. “Come on then vampire,

So it’s Easter Sunday, April fool’s day and international tatting day. I wanted to try having a go at my cross stitch, which I’ve neglected for a while, but I found that I’m way too shaky to try and enjoy

Today's post is a bit of a hard one. I would like to say that it's something as simple as writers block but that's not something I get. I suppose it's time to fess up. I don't get writers block because

Prologue 1/2 "Let there be Light" "This is the last fucking time," James muttered angrily. Back at home, before the fall, his friends would never have abandoned him like this. Yet after

Me when the wife returns from lunch at the Italians with her friends. please... no jiggy jiggy with that mouth!!!

As a couple with two young children you don't get as many chances toget jiggy with it as you might like. So she didn't quite see that coming...

So, you want to be a published author? GREAT! You came to the right place. Hardly a day goes by I don't sell one or more books.It's a great source of residual income that keeps paying me, month after month

This is turning out to be quite a tale (I know, my opinion...) and I think it'll make a novel-sized story. I'm listening to the feedback and if something resonates, I've decided that I'll go with it (thanks

How come I always get woken up just at the good bit?

My daily dose of ART I try to take a dose of ART everyday, it makes me happy! I'm sharing with you today another one of my drawings created on DADA as part of the visual conversation 'art & tech'.

Get up! Get up!! Get downstairs!!! My jailer banged the edge of the cot that I shared with a couple of other inmates. I got to my feet quickly. I knew better than to resist. Inmates that resisted got a

“I have been meaning to ask you something Eloim,” Alexia said tentatively from the cave mouth. “Why are you dressed so strangely? I have seen you quite often through the eyes of my minions and you were

Intentionally Deleted.

Oliver lay on the settee in the living room unable to sleep; the thing was far too soft for him, so he got up and moved to lie down on a fur rug before the fireplace. From upstairs in the room above, he

My time in the dungeon was over. The case of the Shadow I.T was closed. Now I was returning to the fold, a few more scars and more determined than ever to root out injustice in the murky underworld of

Lines and circles I created this drawing of a figure on the platform DADA, a social network where people speak to each other through drawings, this piece of work is part of a visual conversation titled

Me at breakfast... Someone remind me next time crypto pumps up like a mad thing to do the dumping bit as well before it is worth less than a hand shandy from an Welsh Lady.

So after finding Holme Bank Chert Mine; which was my first ever underground explore (blog in the link), the underground bug was caught and I couldn't wait to find more places to explore! We had started