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April Munday

@AprilMunday

I write historical romance set in the fourteenth century and the Regency period. https://xitter.gq/t.co/duvBICPdDQ. #histrom History blogger.

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Joined March 2015
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A war can't keep the knight in shining armour from his damsel in distress. mybook.to/BeBe #historicalromance #medievalromance
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The Maybe Project via @rockingfraggle fragglerocking.org/2024/10/2…
The Maybe Project

The Maybe Project

Still snapping. This week has been a bit busy as I’ve been back to work for 3 days instead of 1 so have had to employ the iphone camera more than usual this week, and next week I’m work…

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St. Agatha's Church, Richmond, September 2024 via @rockingfraggle fragglerocking.org/2024/10/2…
St. Agatha’s Church, Richmond, September 2024

St. Agatha’s Church, Richmond, September 2024

Following on from Easby Abbey Sophie and I got to see St Agatha’s Church. These are all taken with my Iphone but that’s good enough as I had enough to carry about with the big Pentax. D…

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The Maybe Project via @rockingfraggle fragglerocking.org/2024/09/3…
The Maybe Project

The Maybe Project

Autumn, or Fall if you must, is happening a bit now. I’m noticing the changes in the tree leaf colours on my drive to work. The cats are indoors more than out now the temperature has dropped,…

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Down in the woods, part 2 via @MonkCuisine modernmedievalcuisine.com/20…
Down in the woods, part 2

Down in the woods, part 2

More medieval food in Bailey’s Wood, Manchester. This time, two sweet treats. Full recipes included.

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Down in the woods, part 1 via @MonkCuisine modernmedievalcuisine.com/20…
Down in the woods, part 1

Down in the woods, part 1

Down in the woods… I cooked some smoked, spicy chickpeas. Yum!

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The cockatrice of Renwick and other tales via @bitaboutbritain bitaboutbritain.com/the-cock…
The cockatrice of Renwick and other tales - A Bit About Britain

The cockatrice of Renwick and other tales - A Bit About Britain

In search of old stones from a lost village, a well named for a saintly king and the cockatrice of Renwick.

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The Maybe Project via @rockingfraggle fragglerocking.org/2024/08/0…
The Maybe Project

The Maybe Project

Another week working my own shifts on Mon-Wed and then doing Lynn’s job on Thursday and Friday, so again photography has taken a back seat all week. Still, I’ve found a couple of cats t…

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The Dangers of a Medieval Siege: When a siege began, no one could predict how it would end. The only thing that anyone knew was that many people would die. buff.ly/4aJozbH via @aprilmunday
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Sketch Pad '24 #1: Chairs and Holidays via @CowboyBuilding monsterinthenextroom.wordpre…
Sketch Pad #1: Chairs and Holidays

Sketch Pad #1: Chairs and Holidays

I was going to try come up with a new ‘toon but its just not there so as I have a few sketches knocking around, I thought I’d share them. I used to draw all the time in a lot of tight d…

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What Was An Aventail?

What Was An Aventail?

Tomb of Edward of Woodstock, Canterbury Cathedral Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons This week we’re back to chainmail, but it’s a relatively small piece. In the…

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What Was An Aventail?

What Was An Aventail?

Tomb of Edward of Woodstock, Canterbury Cathedral Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons This week we’re back to chainmail, but it’s a relatively small piece. In the…

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Happy dead dragon day! via @rockingfraggle fragglesotherplace.com/2024/…
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What Was An Aketon? aprilmunday.wordpress.com/20… via @aprilmunday
What Was An Aketon?

What Was An Aketon?

This week’s piece of armour is the aketon. It’s another padded jacket, this time worn under armour rather than on top of it. It doesn’t take much imagination to realise that a body might need to be…

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🇮🇹 Domani avrò risolto l'enigma. This week we'll read an old letter together, we'll unravel a mystery and we'll learn all about the #Italian future perfect. New B1 grammar lesson coming on Wednesday on YouTube 😎 #learnItalian #langtwt
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What was Cuir Bouilli?

What was Cuir Bouilli?

I’ve written quite a bit over the last few weeks about what knights and soldiers wore over their armour and only briefly looked at what constituted that armour. We’re looking back to the thirteenth…

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Britain enters the contest to be second best via @ellen_hawley notesfromtheuk.com/2024/04/1…
Britain enters the contest to be second best

Britain enters the contest to be second best

Britain’s Conservative Party, masters of social media that they are, have done it again. They posted one of history’s stranger political ads on Twitter–or at least on the site that used to be Twitt…

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Friday Faves: Monkeying Around via @CowboyBuilding monsterinthenextroom.wordpre…
Friday Faves: Monkeying Around

Friday Faves: Monkeying Around

Here’s another one that needed trimming. See original below. I was riffing on well-meaning advice from smug marrieds so the blowing hot and cold joke was just not needed. It’s much bett…

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Will the real London please stand up? via @ellen_hawley notesfromtheuk.com/2024/04/0…
Will the real London please stand up?

Will the real London please stand up?

In preparation for London’s mayoral election, the Conservative Party ran an ad on what used to be Twitter saying London has been on the brink of chaos since its current mayor, Sadiq Khan, “seized p…

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