Tag Archive | Derbyshire
Lord of the Deep – Workshop April 2019
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
The Silent Eye’s Spring workshop for 2019 * The glories above were unamed. The word for that world beneath, unuttered. Source and time, unfettered, merged… From the mingling waves-of-water came mud and slime. Enshar and Kishar, twin halves of the globe, shone out of them. * THE…
Kniveton – The little church that smiled
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
On my last trip north, I took a different route, and that is always an adventure. With never enough time to take side-trips and explore, I can never resist when something just drops in my path, so when, after three hours driving, a village that announced itself…
Seeds of Change
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
‘Dr Dee’, ‘Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth I’, ‘Sir Walter Raleigh’ and ‘Master Shakespeare’ Time does strange things. It is just a week since our workshop and already it feels as if it is receding into the mists, and yet, it is also as clear and sharp as…
Shades of the Golden Age…
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
As a child, I loved the old movies of the swashbuckling variety. Even then, I knew the stories were not real and the history likely to be wildly innaccurate. Romance and adventure did not wait behind every tree. Magic, though, had its own reality. With a family…
Enigma #midnighthaiku
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
Human enigma Achieves the impossible Denies evidence The valley is flooded. Beneath it two villages are drowned. Modern Man works engineering miracles then sails on his creation, trusting his eyes and self-satisfaction. Above the valley are sculpted hills, crowned by the works of ancient Man, crafted in…
A common misconception?
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
“….so, this year it is Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Court, and next year we’ll be in Sumeria.” Running around getting things organised for the workshops always involves the attempted acquisition of some strange items. I frequently get asked what I’m hoping to use them for and that…
Doing what comes naturally
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
We were in Castleton, hunting for props for the Feathered Seer. It was a cold, grey morning, but even so, the warm stone of the small Derbyshire town was inviting. We wandered through the streets, exploring hidden streets that we had not seen before and following the…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 