As you turn left onto the old road to West Wycombe that Francis Dashwood upgraded, you can see his mausoleum on the hilltop in front of you. This is your first confirmation. “Yep. Definite wizard.” The Mausoleum wasn’t our first stop yesterday. Technically, I should include the famous Walpole in Ealing, where we broke...
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That’s Halloween done for another year. And this weekend in the UK we have Guy Fawkes Night to look forward. After that… well… pretty soon after that is November 11. 2011. If you are playing along at home, that’s 11/11/11. What? You didn’t have anything planned? Neither did I. Conveniently for us both we...
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Did you know that there is an actual black grail? A physical object from antiquity that the was banned from entering a terrified America as late as 1953? (It was turned away from New York for being too controversial. Joke’s on whoever made that call.) Did you know that it was only publicly displayed...
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Being under the weather makes you think about things like pain killers.. And boredom… And what you have in the cupboard because nuts to going outside. As I was rearranging my bookshelves in preparation for the arrival of two more to catch the overflow I found a title I bought at the Book Of...
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It looks like a few of my sigils may be coming down off the mirror soon as the -possibly semi self-inflicted- star storm abates and gives me my first clear view of what this new adventure could look like. What. A. Ride. These last two months are what we can call the Proof of...
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