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Misfit
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Post by Misfit » Sat August 14th, 2010, 1:27 pm

Napoleon has just whisked me off for a week at Trianon and a very surprising person from my past has just entered the room....

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At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be

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Post by rockygirl » Sun August 15th, 2010, 12:37 am

Watching the burnings ordered by Bloody Mary.

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Post by EC2 » Mon August 16th, 2010, 5:27 pm

I'm in bed with Alice Perrers and very worried that all her wheeling and dealing is going to bring her down.
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard n’I chasront

'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'

Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal

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Post by litchickuk » Thu August 26th, 2010, 5:45 pm

Im in 1909 Carinthia. Just got back from the Serengeti musing on the origins of evolutional psychology

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Post by Misfit » Thu August 26th, 2010, 8:30 pm

[quote=""litchickuk""]Im in 1909 Carinthia. Just got back from the Serengeti musing on the origins of evolutional psychology[/quote]

Hi litchuckuk, welcome aboard.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be

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Post by Russ Whitfield » Fri August 27th, 2010, 10:10 am

Sparta circa 74 AD. And Rome circa 86 AD. And Dacia circa 86AD. And Ham circa 2010 being hungover. Its been quite a week.

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Post by rockygirl » Sun September 12th, 2010, 8:10 pm

17th century NY, trying to gain my freedom.

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Post by Misfit » Sun September 12th, 2010, 9:14 pm

In Constantinople with Lady Hester Stanhope. She's trying to convince me to leave and set sail for Egypt.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be

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Post by Madeleine » Mon September 13th, 2010, 10:48 am

I'm now on my third visit to Forks, Washington.
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross

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Post by annis » Sat September 25th, 2010, 8:42 pm

At Norham Castle , where discussions are taking place between Edward I of England and the magnates of Scotland over the kingship of Scotland.

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Norham Castle , as painted by William Turner.


"The River Tweed carved a broad course through meadows and crop fields. The southern banks marked the end of the kingdom of England while across the wind-uffled water, on the northern bank, the kingdom of Scotland began.

At a large, lazy loop in the river on the English side was the small settlement of Norham. The town, slumbering in the treacle-thick heat.of a midsummer afternoon, was dominated by a stone castle, one of the chief strongholds of Anthony Bek, the Bishop of Durham. The sheer whitewashed walls, reflected in the river’s glassy surface, were gashed with arrow slits, all facing the the reed-fringed northern bank. Hanging from the tallest turret was a scarlet banner, adorned with three golden lions."

Currently reading:
Insurrection by Robyn Young, first in a trilogy about Robert the Bruce.
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