That Bluidy Mackenzie!

This post is by Nancy Jardine. Research and accessible libraries. I’m constantly accessing sources of historical information from various internet sites as I write my historical adventures. Often a simple question that I want answered will have me digressing for hours as I latch onto something only vaguely related to my initial inquiry, but which inContinue reading “That Bluidy Mackenzie!”

Every kind you can think of!

This post is by Nancy Jardine. If you’re a regular reader, then you’ll know that this Wranglers blog is contributed to by lots of different authors/writers who have their own writing preferences. We have poets like Doris McCraw who loves to work in a tight rhythm of 5/7/5 Haiku style. The poem below is aContinue reading “Every kind you can think of!”

All the places have their meaning…

This post is by Nancy Jardine. A previous blogger on this site wrote about the benefits of keeping a diary and it made me think of my aborted attempts to keep one when I was an early teenager. Fortunately, around that same period I had another way of ‘memory keeping’. In the early 1960s, UKContinue reading “All the places have their meaning…”

Adventurous? Me?

This post is by Nancy Jardine How do you feel about meeting new people? How do you like walking into a room to meet someone unknown, experiencing that feeling of ‘will I choose the right person to speak to’, or ‘will I make a colossal *mistake* and approach a total stranger’? For me that feelingContinue reading “Adventurous? Me?”

It’s a hens do!

This post is by Nancy Jardine I’m starting this blog post with an apology. If I’m a bit tardy in commenting this time around please forgive me – I’m hoping it’ll be because I’m having a whale of a time at my niece’s ‘hen party’. I’m taking an approximately 300 mile round trip to theContinue reading “It’s a hens do!”