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Brenna
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Post by Brenna » Mon October 10th, 2011, 2:01 pm

I just left Acre and am heading home to England. Or at least I thought I was!
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Post by SonjaMarie » Mon October 10th, 2011, 8:43 pm

I'm in two locations:
England 1140 - Matilda is trying to regain the throne that her father intended her to have from her cousin Stephen.
Tudor England, 1532 - ah the tribulations of Henry VIII and Anne Bolyen trying to get married.

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Madeleine
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Post by Madeleine » Mon October 24th, 2011, 11:16 am

I'm also in 2 places, well actually 3:

Bon Temps in the present day, and also late 18th century London and Cambridge.
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Post by Leyland » Mon October 24th, 2011, 7:28 pm

[quote=""Susanna Kearsley""]and am now back in a damp Cornish cave in the summer of 1715, trying to decide whether to alter history by stopping someone getting killed.[/quote] LOL! Well, after reading The Rose Garden over the weekend, I know why Susanna was there and what she finally decided upon. Love it!
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Post by SonjaMarie » Mon October 24th, 2011, 7:59 pm

Still in Constantinople, Justinian has just told Theodora he wants to change the law so he can marry her, an ex-actress/whore, which is illegal at the moment.

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Post by emr » Mon October 31st, 2011, 7:54 pm

This morning I went to the Cathedral. They are restoring her for years now and from time to time they let you see how it's going. Well, I'm in love with this beauty:
Image These are Alfonso X, Fadrique, Fernando and Enrique, (I think) (it only says "the 4 crowned princes"), sons of Fernando III of Castilla, son of Queen Berenguela, daughter of Alfonso VIII and Eleanor, in short these are Henry II's grand-grand-grandsons (does this word exist? lol).
I love the way they are chatting between themselves. And how their hands hold the cloths in a casual way like playing with the straps. Number 3 is obviously the youngest, so beautiful I thought at first it was a woman. A moment frozen in time around 1245...
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Madeleine
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Post by Madeleine » Mon October 31st, 2011, 8:18 pm

They're lovely emr, we'd call them Henry's great-great-grandsons, although I like your name for them as well! The colours are beautiful.
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Post by emr » Tue November 1st, 2011, 9:07 am

[quote=""Madeleine""]They're lovely emr, we'd call them Henry's great-great-grandsons, although I like your name for them as well! The colours are beautiful.[/quote]

Oooh thanks :D I knew so many grands did not sound right :o
They are trying to recover some of the wall decorations as a sample and it all goes in those colors. It must have been a colorful place some 700 years ago. But now 95% of that is lost.
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Post by Madeleine » Fri November 18th, 2011, 9:52 am

Modern-day New York.
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Post by Ely » Fri November 25th, 2011, 10:00 pm

Winchester 1204. I've just discovered that I'm going to marry some chap known as Llewelyn, it has come as a bit of a shock

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