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Rosy Cole's Blog
November 20, 2009
- They are getting closer. I hear them, wave upon wave, mounted upon terrified steeds, poor abused beasts who have no Francis to calm them. I hear the clash of steel, the primal screams and cries, the whinnying, the shuddering clack of wood upon wood and stone. Francis raised these walls with his own bare hands until they were chafed sore and ...
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November 17, 2009
- The Berkeley Trilogy is novelised biography They named the child William, in memory of Mary’s Pa, and Fitzhardinge, the ancestral name of the Berkeleys after the Bristol merchant who had been the financier of Henry II and had gained honour and lands in return. In William, the butcher’s marrow was united with that of ...
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November 14, 2009
- Taken from my Marion Grace novel, THE GODMOTHER, fully written but awaiting editorial attention. Dysfunctional family wrestles in the aftermath of two World Wars in pre-Millennium Britain. Gabriel had often imagined his wife's last moments, what he would do, what he would say, how he would feel. He had been in thrall to her ...
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November 12, 2009
- When I am an old woman, I shall wear wine-dark velvet in a retrospective style, with plumed hat, tilted at a rakish angle and toss off a brandy in one go. And quaff champagne because the sun is shining, or the rain won't go away, or because a deadline has taken wing for distant climes. I shall ...
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November 10, 2009
- Taken from my Marion Grace novel, THE GODMOTHER, fully written but awaiting editorial attention. Dysfunctional family wrestles in the aftermath of two World Wars in pre-Millennium Britain. Jessica lived on the shadowy side of Bethesda. She was still considered a newcomer, having arrived not long before Christmas when all the rooms on the sunny side ...
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November 7, 2009
- One thing that is surprising,” Adam remarked as we drove back over the moors after tea, “at least many people find it so when they begin to investigate the geology of Scotland….”“What’s that?”“That it’s a land rich in gold.”I smiled through my weariness. The words had a familiar ring! “I’ve heard tell of ghillies who ...
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November 5, 2009
- The night sky sparkles with false stars dying at the peak of purest brilliance and sizzling, whining blasts of sound celebrate broken bondage to the past. St Peter is defied to tread our soil in Roman sandals. The joy of it! To maim one's heritage in tinsel Absolution! To scorn the screeching shackles that once bound chafing earth to Heaven; the ...
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October 31, 2009
- The Berkeley Trilogy is novelised biography, the story of Mary Cole, 5th Countess of Berkeley. In June, when Susan came down from Town for her niece’s christening, accompanied by James Perry, things took a bizarre turn. The long and the short of it was that he and Mary fell in love.When he arrived, soberly apparelled beside Susan in pink ...
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October 30, 2009
- ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’ Fiona stuffed her tongue between her teeth, her freshly sharpened quill travelling over the virgin pages of a new exercise book she had pledged to keep spotless from beginning to end. Her coarse, crinkly hair, though braided and severely coiled, ...
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October 22, 2009
- The Honourable Leo Quinn settled back against the shabby upholstery of the hackney cab and made a vain bid to suppress a yawn. Stuffing, he noticed, was bursting from a gash in the leather. Propriety obliged him to make use of such anonymous means of transport when escorting Essie and her kind, though he might not disdain to be seen with her in ...
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October 19, 2009
- REVIEW of Aberjhani's poetry 'To continue one's journey in the darkness with one's footsteps guided by illumination of remembered radiance is to know courage of a peculiar kind – the courage to demand that light continue to be light even in the surrounding darkness.'The quotation is from Howard Thurman and prefaces award-winning writer, Aberjhani's volume of poetry, The ...
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October 14, 2009
- Bel begins to confront one or two of her demons. (From my Marion Grace novel THE GODMOTHER) It was a modern studio, airy and spacious, with skylights and halogen spotlights. A waxed pine floor dimly reflected its only functional ornament, a Japanese grand piano, dark as liquorice. This elegant beast dwarfed the flimsy steel stand which had been ...
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October 12, 2009
- Random passage from my Marion Grace novel THE GODMOTHER, as yet unedited and unrevised. (Dysfunctional family struggles in the aftermath of two World Wars in pre-millennium Britain under its dour but charismatic oracle, Sibyl.) After James Alexander’s birth, his father became increasingly immersed in work. Despite what had been ...
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October 10, 2009
- Further to my blog of September 3, thank you to everyone who has shown concern. Cheryl is struggling with recovery, so, please, I beg you, do keep up the momentum of your prayers and healing thoughts, not neglecting her husband, Krishna, and sister, Janet, who are looking after her. (This is what our wonderful community is all about, caring for each other through our ...
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October 9, 2009
- À propos of this week's RR blog theme, Rescue... A long way down and far to go, dislocation - disconnection - disorientation - disseverance - As Hopkins knew, the mind has mountains, Cliffs of fall, no-man fathomed. He said nothing of the heart. He left us high and dry, facing arrant steeps and deeps with opiate sleep for comfort, the ...
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