Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

Das Irrlicht (Will o' the Wisp) - by Arnold Böcklin Here are three folklore snippets from a wonderful book called 'The Appearance o...

You'll find me over at the History Girls today, wondering how on earth Richard the Lionheart has managed to go down in history as an Eng...

by Gillian Philip Carterhaugh, a farm on the Buccleuch Estate, here seen across the Ettrick Water.   As a child I don’t think ...

A handful of posts which caught my eye: Steve Feasey talks to Lucy Coats about imps - particularly the Lincoln Imp, whom I hadn't hear...

I was saddened to hear yesterday of the death after a short illness of the wonderful New Zealand writer Margaret Mahy .  She was 76, and in...

Sir Joseph Noel Paton: 'The Fairy Rade: Carrying Off A Changeling - Midsummer's Eve In honour of my recent stay in the bea...

I'm lucky to have the sort of mother who never throws things out - at least, not things her children have made, no matter how long ago...