Ok – made some kind of decision about my next novel, “Hangingstone Hill.”
I had originally planned it to be set in Dartmoor but I’ve changed my mind. This, for a start, will make the name redundant as that’s a place name of a tor in the Dartmoor area.
It seems silly to me to live in [...]
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Change of Plans
Posted in Britain, Erastes, Scenery, writing on December 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
It’s official – Hobbiton is really… Birmingham?!
Posted in Britain, Fiona Glass, Scenery, life, writing, tagged Birmingham, Tolkien on September 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Fans of Lord of the Rings might not automatically associate the rural landscape of The Shire with Britain’s buzzing second city, but the fact is that Tolkien grew up in Birmingham, and when he came to write his books he peppered them with local settings. In particular, The Shire was heavily based on the south-eastern [...]
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 [...]
Favourite view
Posted in Britain, Fiona Glass, Scenery, tagged Add new tag, Britain, Fiona Glass, Lake District, Scenery on May 17, 2008 | 8 Comments »
A few months back there was a programme on tv where the public could vote on their favourite British view. This (see below) is what won – Wastwater, in the English Lake District, with the mountain called Great Gable looming in the background. As a big fan of the Lake District (I’d move there tomorrow [...]
