Categotry Archives: Research
Tudor Follies Continued – Anne Boleyn
Mr. Al continues his take on English history with a look at one of Henry VIII’s wives. ______ About Anne Boleyn. Although they ended up rivals, to put it mildly, Anne and Katherine were close friends for years. Anne entered Katherine’s service as a lady in waiting after serving for eight years with Queen Claude, (yes, that was her name.) of France. It was while in Claude’s service that Anne got her first lesson in the realities of a young […]
The Problem With Pictures
I’m not a photographer to begin with. Add to that a handicap from the time delay involved in using a digital camera and a tendency for my snorkel to fill with salt water and you can pretty well bet the best pictures got away from me. Worse, I felt compelled to refrain from taking pictures of people I didn’t know, which means I can’t show you the streets of Belize City as they really ought to be seen – full […]
Chicken Curry
I’m going to cheat today, and send you all off to some recipes elsewhere in the Internet that look about right for the sort of food I was eating in Belize. The Belizian diet seems to be a bit limited. They typically offer fry-jacks and beans and eggs for breakfast along with a juice like mango or watermelon. For lunch and supper it would be beans and rice then either chicken or fish. We also saw a fair amount of […]
Back to Belize
So. Where was I? Oh yes, thinking about the trip. I’m going to do about half a dozen blogs on it, each focused on the sorts of things you might need to know should you have a setting in Belize, or even on say – an island in the Gulf of Mexico. Probably the first thing that hits you as you get off the plane is the air. It’s warm and moist. Although my sense of smell isn’t too good, […]
Chasing Sharks
Honest, I’m not the sort of person who does stupid things like feed bears, try to pet deer or buffalo, or chase after skunks. I don’t know what got into me! Our second day at Maya Breeze Inn we decided to go snorkeling. We hired a touring company named Nite Wind (yes, that’s how they spelled it) to take us out to one of the cayes that is part of a reserve. Our tour guide’s name was Mark. He wasn’t […]
Mr. Al’s first Tudor Thingy
It occurs to me that some of you may not have seen Mr. Al’s first post, which he put in FanLit Forever instead of sending to me, his dear wife who specifically asked for it. So here it is: . I don’t know what happened, I’ve been possessed by an imp or something. No one is willing to talk movies so now you all are gonna get a history lesson! You brought it on yourselves. The Henry story went like […]
Curly Hair
One of my reading pet peeves is the way writer’s portray curly hair. Too often it is clear the writer has no idea what curly hair is like. So in the interest of authenticity, I thought I’d talk about it. First of all, like most things, one head of curly hair is not necessarily like another. Since I didn’t have curly hair until my early teens, and no one in my family could help me deal with it, I became […]
