Scotland
Friday, June 11th, 2010 Posted in DIARY, Jessica Blair Country, The Other Side Of Me | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_484" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Near Loch Nell"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_483" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Loch Avich"] [/caption] Loch Avich and Mull from the Sound of Mull More pictures from my holiday
Pictures from Scotland
Thursday, June 10th, 2010 Posted in DIARY, Jessica Blair Country, The Other Side Of Me | 1 Comment »[caption id="attachment_473" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Loch Awe. Road to Oban"][/caption] Near Castle Stalker Geese, Loch Avich Bridge Over The Atlantic Loch Nell Loch Etive I've had a requesr to put some photographs from my recent holiday in Scotland on my blog. Difficult to chose from over 200 ...
Sealed Secrets by Jessica Blair – extract 2
Saturday, March 27th, 2010 Posted in BOOKS FROM MY BOOKSHELVES, Book Preview, Books, Jessica Blair Country | No Comments »(The fog lifted but Betsy feared a new danger. She heard the sound of a horse's hooves.) " She looked round for something with which to defend herself and grasped a spoke, broken from the wheel. ...... The horseman rose out ...
Sealed Secrets by Jessica Blair – extract 1
Friday, March 12th, 2010 Posted in Book Preview, Jessica Blair Country, My Writing Life | No Comments »1858. Betsy Palmer is on her way from Whitby to deliver orders for jewellry to the miners in Rosedale. She has to cross the lonely moors. Fog comes down --- "The hoped for clearing of the fog did not materialise, even ...
Shetland
Saturday, February 20th, 2010 Posted in Books, DIARY, Jessica Blair Country | No Comments »A Shetland coastal scene, that would be seen by the whalers who figure in some of Jessica Blair's novels set in the eighteenth and nineteen centuries -- The Red Shawl, A Distant Harbour, The Restless Heart, Secrets of the Sea, etc.
WHITBY JOY
Monday, November 16th, 2009 Posted in DIARY, Jessica Blair Country, My Writing Life | No Comments »Went to Whitby on Saturday. Walked beside a calm sea. Little wind. Sunshine, clouded a little in the late adternoon. When I got home I saw on the news the terrible conditions that had swept across Southern England. Could hardly believe ...
North York Moors and Jessica Blair
Saturday, September 5th, 2009 Posted in Books, Jessica Blair Country | No Comments »North York Moors August 2009. These are little different to the scenes with which David Fernley and Ruth Harwood (The Red Shawl) would be familiar. Emma Dugdale (Storm Bay) would be very familiar with them. Such settings play a part in other Jessica ...
Whitby
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 Posted in Books, Jessica Blair Country | 6 Comments »This is Whitby's East Side looking upstream from the bridge. Much altered since the days in which my Jessica Blair books are set. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ships would be tied up at the quays and the people ...
Yorkshire Coast – Ravenscar
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Books, Jessica Blair Country | No Comments »These high cliffs at Ravenscar would be familiar to all the sailors in my books especially those from Whitby. They tower on the southern side of Robin Hood's Bay. They figure especially in ECHOES OF THE PAST when the Hope is ...
Captain James Cook and Captain William Scoresby Snr.
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 Posted in Jessica Blair Country | 1 Comment »The statue of Captain Cook stands on Whitby's West Cliff over-looking the River Esk that joins the sea between the piers. The West Pier was rebuilt in stone in 1632 and the East Pier about 1702. The taller lighthouse on ...
