Riding The Breaking Wave..…. From Tiffani Angus…..Eagle Cairn Update…..
by Bernie Bell - 08:44 on 26 September 2025
Riding The Breaking Wave….
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=17508
Mike described it as being ‘relatable’, and it is – to the time and to individual experience. ….
Page 27 ……’Knoxy got a job on the Virgin Manchester Megastore check-out desk’….
In my head, I heard….
‘I’m in love (he’s in love) with the girl on a certain Manchester Megastore check-out desk’.
I tracked down the song - still in my head after all this time….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-cvurlm9wA
And…. Ian’s reference to The Hunger which comes with having to take Steroids - I remember having to fight the impulse to eat and eat and eat.
So much there, so much there…..
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From Tiffani Angus…..
“I’ll be at NorCon this weekend with my fellow Bury St Edmunds and East Anglia SFF authors selling books!
Take care of yourselves, and go find some fun!
Dream Big, Write Bigger!”
Who is Tiffani Angus? This was in m’blog early October last year….
“I came across a reference to a writer who is new to me - Tiffani Angus. She’s had stories published in anthologies and in the two writing guides which she’s co-written, but has only had one full novel published so far. It’s called ‘Threading the Labyrinth’.
I Googled it and the description of an historical fantasy about 400 years in a ‘haunted' garden appealed to me….
…..brought to mind Oscar Wilde’s ‘Canterville Ghost’ which I like for his understanding of the shifts between life and death….and time…..
Similarly, in the film ‘Time to Time’….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Time_to_Time_(film)
…..which I can watch any number of times.
We ordered, and received a copy. I had started re-reading ‘Wildwood ‘ by Roger Deakin, but realised that what I needed at this point in time was a story.
I began ‘Threading the Labyrinth’ and it is just what I was looking for. It’s a story - right from the first line. It catches you - catches your interest in the people and what becomes of them. Note I say ‘people’ not ‘characters’ – they are immediately…. People.
I have bad eye-sight and can only read a certain amount at a time before my eyes get tired. ‘Threading the Labyrinth’ is divided into sections relating to…...time, and so I can finish a section, make a clean cut in time, and start again the next time I’m ready.
And it‘s well written – very well written – at times poetic, at times underlining the need for social reform through the years of which the tale tells.
It’s full of magic – real magic.
I hope she writes more.
If you’re wondering why it’s called ‘Threading the Labyrinth’ – you’ll need to read it to find out!”
Eagle Cairn Up-date….
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/isbister-cairn/
And…once again….some of my many tuppenceworths…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/05/04/bernie-bell-orkney-walks-with-stories-the-eagle-cairn/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/01/13/bernie-bell-orkney-walks-south-ronaldsay-east-coast/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/07/29/a-tale-of-the-eagle-cairn/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/02/02/an-appreciation-of-john-hedges-an-archaeologist/
Do…go…see…
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