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Another Year Over...

This is the time of year when I write a review of everything I have achieved in the last twelve months. 

I’m not going to concentrate on the difficulties we have all had and the challenges we have faced with the pandemic because these have all been well documented.

Instead I shall deal with my own personal positives, starting with the publishing of my two historical novels...

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Coleridge in Love

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, literary critic and philosopher was born in Ottery St Mary in Devon in 1772. He was a man of huge intellect and many talents. With his energetic enthusiasm, magnetic personality and copious charm, he was attractive to men and women alike.  His was a complex character, given to marvellous sweeping ideas, flights of fancy and projects he started and often failed to finish. Nowadays we might  consider him to be bi-polar. He was unreliable, unable to keep to deadlines and always ready with an excuse. It is well-known he was also an addictive...

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