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Sellic Spell
Tolkien Gateway says that the short story Sellic Spell is "re-creating the (lost) folk-tale underlying the Norse Hrólfs saga kraka" which was translated by one of Tolkien's students and over that translation, there seems to be some copyright dispute.
But my copy of Beowulf, A Translation and Commentary together with Sellic Spell says Sellic Spell is ( Read more... ) -
Lemonpost
In the end I picked the lemon that I had grown and just ate it with sugar on a pancake. It was a little sharper than a commercial lemon, rather pippy, but I was still very proud.
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Grew a lemon!
Despite the roof coming off the room it lives in and spending a couple of weeks on its side in the wind rain and wreckage, then months shoved into a corner by a window while all the building work was done, when the roof went back on, this little tree managed flowers, in July:
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Wrote a thing. Or 2.
I DID manage to get my first FTH story written by the deadline. It's here :
Fear Fire Foes
The War of Wrath has been raging for thirty-five years. Now the Enemy has found a new strategy. He’s set a trap.
The request was for a hurt/comfort story with Elrond and Elros offering comfort to Maedhros and Maglor. It seemed to work out well enough in the ( Read more... ) -
2022 DONE.
This year my Mum announced firmly that she would really prefer to spend Christmas at home with her cat Pudding and no other company, so after we had popped down to visit for a couple of days beforehand then came back to Wales. It was very nice and relaxing and the quick visit to Devon was handy for going to the Cheese Shop in Tavistock to buy ( Read more... ) -
Drawing from the shoulder
I do quite a bit of drawing, and quite often draw or paint for several hours. What with the kayak and the garden, my arms and shoulders do get a fair bit of exercise, at least intermittently.
Two days ago, I tried some of the warmup exercises on drawbox.com - very simple stuff, drawing some lines, planes, etc. As the tutorial recommended, I tried ( Read more... ) -
Theo does good things VII
Today, we went to Pembroke with a big pouch of dog kibble mixed with chopped turkey and cocktail sausage.
We saw a LOT of dogs! From boxers to spaniels to dachshunds. And we did not bark at any of them, even the collie who came and posed rather too close. The only dog that got barked at was the one that sneaked up on Theo and shoved his nose rudely ( Read more... ) -
Theo does good things V & VI
I seem to have missed a day!
Sunday, we went for a wander around Pembroke Dock, and went to Wilko to buy some dog treats, much to the delight of the Wilko staff 'It makes our day at work better when people bring dogs!' one person told me hugging Theo enthusiastically. Another shopper said: 'I couldn't bring my dog in here, he would pee on ( Read more... )
