Hamlets and Crafts

To the south the land slopes gently towards the sea, and is lightly wooded, with the occasional meadow clearing, scattered with wild flowers – cowslips, primroses and a patch or two of tiny wild strawberries, sweet as honey. Gilead is the town and the main trading centre, but there are several small hamlets dotted about [...]

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The Hunt Continues

I’m off a-hunting again today.  Searching for the missing muse is giving me a good excuse to have a sticky-beak into all sorts of places. When I came back from the hairdresser’s yesterday, I walked along ‘A’ deck and found a row of alternative therapy salons, so I went back up there to have a [...]

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Muse Hunt

I’m about to embark on the hunt for the missing muse.  Watch out Miss Marple, Mrs Beryl Bainbridge is about to unleash her powers of detection.  She’s not quite sure where to start though. Just on the off-chance it might help, I’ve opened up my magical walnut shell to see if there is anything to [...]

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A Discovery

On Tuesday, when I was scrabbling about under my bunk looking for my shoes, I found a walnut shell.  Fortunately I had my ’Hubbles’ on or it would have ended up in the bin.  Inside it were several tiny things.  I mentioned it to Elizabeth, the lady from Yorkshire,  and she informed me that it was [...]

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