Tomorrow is Valentines day a time for all lovers to get romantic and exchange gifts, cards you name it.
However in Wales there is a similar celebration but a month early. St Dwynwen’s Day (Dybb Santes Dwynwen) is on the 25th of January.
She is the welsh the patron saint of lovers and her tale as most [...]
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The day of lovers
Posted in Nicole Gestalt, People of Britain, tagged Nicole Gestalt, People of Britain on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Devil’s Whore
Posted in Britain, Erastes, People of Britain, TV on November 21, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Shown on Channel Four this week, I sat down to watch “The Devil’s Whore” with a great deal of interest. My next novel is about the English Civil War and having invested so much research into it, I was curious to see how Channel Four dealt with it. Was it going to be something along [...]
Lo, the Harvest Cometh!
Posted in Britain, Marc Nobbs, People of Britain, gardening, life on September 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
You may (or indeed may not) remember my first post here on the Britwriters blog. It was all about my Allotment and how I was looking forward to the bounty it would bring.
Well, it’s harvest time down at Nobbs’ (mini-)Farm and the wonderfully wet August has meant that while some of my veg has under-performed, [...]
The Cost of Fuel
Posted in Britain, Fuel Prices, Marc Nobbs, People of Britain, Society, life on July 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve had this sent to me the other week by e-mail – I’ll let you read it before I comment.
We are hitting £108.9 a litre in some areas now, soon we will be faced with paying £1.10 a ltr. Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea:
This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the ‘don’t buy petrol on [...]
The Longest Day
Posted in Britain, Nicole Gestalt, People of Britain, Scenery, tagged Longest Day, Midsummer, Nicole Gestalt, Pagan, Salisbury Plain, Solstice, Stonehenge, Summer on June 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Summer Solstice is a turning point for many people for many different reasons. Each year it waited upon and celebrated. It marks the one day of the year where there are more daylight hours than darkness, from this day onward things only get shorter (until the Winter Solstice when the days begin to increase [...]
Happy Summer Solstice!
Posted in Nicole Gestalt, People of Britain, Scenery, tagged Midsummer, Stonehenge, Summer, Summer Solstice on June 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Now today isn’t meant to be my day in posting but I’m popping in briefly to say a happy summer solstice to everyone.
I hope everyone is having a great day and I will post more about this event later today once the celebrations have begun to fully wind down.
So all enjoy the longest day of [...]
The Brits and the Weather – a match made in heaven
Posted in Britain, Marc Nobbs, People of Britain, Society, life, tagged Britian, carol kirkwood, Marc Nobbs, sun, weather on June 9, 2008 | 11 Comments »
We Brits have a strange relationship with the weather. Some would even call it intimate. We are obsessed by it. It occupies our thoughts daily. The weather forecasts on TV are among the most watched of programmes. When we have nothing to talk about, we talk about the weather. When we do have something to [...]
The Kings and Queens of London
Posted in Nicole Gestalt, People of Britain, tagged Nicole Gestalt, People of Britain on May 21, 2008 | 11 Comments »
London is filled to the brim with famous markets, from Camden Market to Portobello Road Market (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_markets) . Each have their own unique flavour and goods to sell, and with each stall comes the sellers. (The picture below courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portobello_Road)
However as old and full of tradition as these markets appear to be they [...]
