This week sees the beginning of special part of the calendar which for various historic reasons see 3 of the most important events of the calendar taking place in what would otherwise be a dark and dreary part of the year. October 31st is of course Halloween and to celebrate we have a Full Moon,… Continue reading Halloweens of past and present (updated)
Month: October 2013
Top Ten Haunted Places in the U.K.
Tomorrow I am going to re-post my Halloween post from last year as both it and my bonfire night articles are always very popular and many of my readers weren’t following me then but for today to get us into the Halloween mood I thought I would do an extra post today. I’ve always believed… Continue reading Top Ten Haunted Places in the U.K.
The Great Storm of Saint Jude
Like many people in southern Britain, we have spent the last 4 or 5 days waiting ominously for a great storm to arrive. We were promised that it would be comparable to the “Hurricane” of 1987, an event I very much remember as a child and not just because of an inability to get to… Continue reading The Great Storm of Saint Jude
The Legend of Spring Heeled Jack
With Halloween just around the corner I thought I would share with you the legend of Spring Heeled Jack who was once infamous in Victorian times and yet is now largely forgotten. Early 19th Century London was a spooky and often dangerous place to be after dark and ghosts were often reported to follow and… Continue reading The Legend of Spring Heeled Jack
I’m a best selling author. No really!
I don’t normally write anything self-congratulatory but I awoke this morning to find that I am finally a best-selling author. You might think that now I have hit the big time I may stop blogging but fear not as I am not yet a New York Times best-seller. I am though a best-seller in the… Continue reading I’m a best selling author. No really!
Day Tour to Portsmouth Historic Dockyards
Following my successful tour last week to Windsor Castle, I was delighted to be asked to take my two lovely guests from Australia to Portsmouth Historic Dockyards. It’s not always an obvious choice at least for overseas visitors staying in London but it’s always a very busy place with visitors from all over the country… Continue reading Day Tour to Portsmouth Historic Dockyards
My First Guided Tour: Windsor Castle
Regular readers may be aware that over the last few months I have been working on setting up my own personal and private guided tours company. It has been a long arduous but also frequently fun road setting up a company website, creating profiles on various guiding websites and creating and designing brochures, leaflets, business… Continue reading My First Guided Tour: Windsor Castle
Autumn is here or why is weather in Britain so complicated
It is mid-October now but until a day or so ago, we in England were still enjoying to some degree a summer. This despite the fact that the sun crossed the equator around 3 weeks ago. Until Tuesday, the weather in much of Southern England at least was 22 degrees C or 72 degrees F. … Continue reading Autumn is here or why is weather in Britain so complicated
My Grandfathers Clock
It’s no secret that I like travelling. In particular I love travelling by trains and I hate travelling by planes. I have always liked travelling by trains even when it is more practical to fly or drive by car. Train stations are amazing places. So many people coming and going. Some in a hurry, some… Continue reading My Grandfathers Clock
The Hidden Horrors of People Trafficking &Domestic Slavery
As regular readers to my blog will know, we open up our house on the Airbnb website and have been doing so now for more than a year. I even wrote a Kindle book on how to create a successful listing on Airbnb that currently like a comets swings between the bottom of Amazons top… Continue reading The Hidden Horrors of People Trafficking &Domestic Slavery
Stephen Liddell 