Tag: HISTORICAL ROMANCE
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Travelling in the Regency Era
Did they experience boat lag? Carriage lag? Maybe! About one hundred years ago, I arrived back in Ireland from my Christmas visit to the States. What do you mean, it was only a little over three weeks? You will never convince me that this month has not gone on for like, four generations. Even after…
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Clearing Your Way
It’s an rare full moon situation right now, so make the most of it! Funnily enough, I ended up on the hiring-out-goats-to-clear-other-people’s-weeds side of TikTok today, and my takeaway is: one creature’s trash is anther creature’s Michelin star feast. This is the second full moon in Capricorn, thanks to 2024 having been a leap year.…
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<Insert Swift Pun Here>
Felicity turned and regarded the habillements draping every surface in the dressing room. “I cannot comprehend how you managed to produce all this in so little time.” “I have yet to see Lady Coleman quail from a challenge.” O’Mara smirked. “When needs must, I am quite swift,” Jemima added and the two of them roared…
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The Last Wednesday of May is Otter Day
In which I realise I don’t know anything about otters in this part of the world. Happy Otter Day! Who doesn’t love an otter, am I right? I am here to celebrate any animal every day, but when they have one all to themselves, I tend to push the boat out. Same with full moons…
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Celebrate Our Apian Pals
Er, one day late. World Bee Day was 20 May. Yesterday, I got it together enough to make this lil graphic and post it on Facebook and Insta. Sorry, beloved blog! Remember when posting on blogs was the first port of call? Me too, blog, me too. So while the United Nations are falling down…
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Regency Era Shapeshifters: A Lexicon
How did no one think to do this in the books?!?! Sooooo I’m working away on two new series, and it occurred to me that I hadn’t done this in The Shapeshifters of the Beau Monde. In my defense, no one else who laid eyeballs on it had thought to do so either. ‘This’ is…
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