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Buy Here A story of 17th c London, medicine & the theatre ~*~*~*~ Executioners are interesting although it is not easy to find a lot of data on these guys.   I know of two who were completely different. One was thoughtful, the other a menace to the public...  The Guillotine during the Fr.Revolution, a humane way to die. Charles-Henri Sanson was the executioner during the French Revolution. He executed Danton, Robespierre, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Before Camille Desmoulins was guillotined, he handed Sanson a locket of his wife’s hair. “Please return this to my wife’s mother.”  Sanson did. While he was at the Duplessis’ household, Camille’s mother-in-law learned her daughter would be executed. Afraid Sanson would be recognized as the one who guillotined Camille, and would execute Lucile, Madame Duplessis’ daughter, he dashed away from their house, mournful of his vocation.   Charles-Henri Sanson Due to the caste system of the time, the offspring of execution...

Click this link for books and purchase information In my When Paths Meet series two of my characters are dogs. In book 1 it is Blue, an old Labrador and in books 2 and 3 it is Cora who grows from a boisterous puppy to a well trained dog. They are both integral to the stories although the books are not about animals, and now my love of dogs has come home to roost! I never thought I would end up as a dog whisperer, but that's what I am. After a long career in health and a busy retirement where I have juggled writing 11 books with helping care for my grandchildren, it's now all about dogs! None of this is intentional. We have always had dogs and now our furry family member is Elfie, a 4 year old poodle/cavalier cross. She is super bright and friendly and is the reason we keep walking and making like-minded friends, and that is how things have escalated.  Looking after our daughter's very deaf cavalier, Peppa, was a given when she was away, but then we made an agreement with a ...

  Buy Here, A Story for All Ages  ~*~*~*~ Sign outside of Woolpit, Sussex I once saw a BBC production where a village nurse found several children—brothers and sisters—alone in a house located at the edge of town. Their parents were nowhere to be seen. They were desperate and hungry, and all of them had orange skin. This stumped the nurse, until she realized they ate carrots for sustenance. Recently, I ran across an account of a 12 th century mystery yet to be resolved. A young brother and sister appeared without explanation or reason in the hamlet of Woolpit in East Anglia, during the reign of King Stephen. They wore clothing of unknown origin and spoke a foreign language. The most peculiar difference: their skin was green. No one knows where they truly came from. It is all very ‘unearthly’.   Two chroniclers tell the tale:  William of Newburgh , 12 th century, who enjoyed chronicling the kings of England. While writing of King Stephen, he threw in a paragraph or ...