Perhaps it was always going to be impossible for a Marcher lord to find happiness, trying to carve out a
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THE DEMON IN THE MACHINE
My father had always told me that drink and craftsmanship do not mix. I only believed him when I was
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Laura Jones and Phil Taylor were getting married. They had been saving up for some time, Laura more assiduously than
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I will drive home indirectly, I have a fear of turning right. Oncoming cars head straight towards me, pedestrians obscure
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Norman Edwards was always a sickly child. He had a weak chest; the kind of baby that, when the midwife
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Arthur was worried. He had just slaughtered the Angles who had been threatening his eastern borders. There were no other
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The cottage stood alone between two villages. In front was a hay meadow, behind it the old wood where no
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When your favourite T.V. programme Broadcasts its last episode Will you survive? When the shop is out of cheese and
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Four thousand years ago a priest had the most important dream of his life. Like all life-changing events it was
Continue readingOF HENRY I AND KING LOUIS OF FRANCE
Henry, king of English, defeated Louis the Fat at the battle of Bremule. After the defeat Louis’s counsellors were surprised
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