Showing posts with label Excalibur. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Excalibur. Show all posts
Friday, 10 May 2024

Wolfie's Excalibur

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 Well, it had to happen: Wolfie got his own Excalibur . Made of wood and not steel, but still. I will explain how he came into possession wi...
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Thursday, 7 March 2024

World Book Day

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 It is World Book Day today, which I try to celebrate every year. I Wolfie celebrates it at school by dressing up, it's a special tradit...
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Saturday, 5 August 2023

GrailQuest (The Den of Dragons)

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A couple of weeks ago, I paid myself another trip down nostalgia lane and it only cost me £0.99. You may remember on this blog a few mention...
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Wednesday, 27 July 2022

What's in Any Old Iron

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I recently finished reading Any Old Iron by Anthony Burgess . One of my favourite novels from my favourite writer. I first read it some 25 ...
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Sunday, 24 July 2022

Excalibeer

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You may remember (or maybe not) that back in 2017 ,  Rebellion Beer brewed an ale called Excalibur for September. Well, this year they rel...
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Monday, 30 May 2022

Souvenir de Brocéliande

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En faisant du ménage dans les bouquins (oui, ça m'arrive), je suis retombé sur un marque-page que j'avais oublié, achetéen Bretagne....
Saturday, 14 August 2021

To see Tintagel

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As some of my readers may know, I am a medievalist by trade, which means I have a PhD in medieval literature. I am also a specialist of Arth...
Tuesday, 15 December 2020

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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'Tis the season to be reading and I might start this post with a confession: although I am a medievalist, specialized in Arthurian liter...
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Monday, 1 June 2020

The Sword in the Stone

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I took this picture at the Crich Tramway Village in Derbyshire , more precisely in this little pathway in the woodlands by the village. It ...
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Tuesday, 5 May 2020

The crimes of MZB

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I don't know why I started thinking about it, maybe because I blogged about Merlin recently . I originally came to the Arthurian legend ...
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Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Merlin in Derbyshire

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I took this picture at the Crich Tramway Village in Derbyshire . There is a path in the wood, a bit outside the village and there are a lot...
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Saturday, 11 January 2020

Meeting King Arthur, Merlin and the others

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Sometimes you get back to your old literary (and, in this case, legendary) loves. Last month, I was saying that being at my parents' hom...
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Saturday, 16 September 2017

Excalibur (and find the three mistakes)

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Today, we spent the afternoon at the local park in a yearly fayre. I had the chance to drink the September ale from Rebellion Beer , called ...
Tuesday, 5 September 2017

Excalibur is real!

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Well, almost. I have read the coolest news ever today: a schoolgirl found in Cornwall a sword in the lake where King Arthur is meant to hav...
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Tuesday, 21 February 2017

Any Old Iron

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As this week will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Anthony Burgess , my favourite writer, I have decided to plug some of his work....
Tuesday, 13 November 2012

The Charm of Making from Excalibur

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" Anál nathrach, orth’ bháis’s bethad, do chél dénmha. " The things we can learn on the internet. Old mysteries from childhood, ...
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