SNEAK PREVIEW! Second of a Two-part Glimpse into “The Bluebottle Boys” (Volume Two) [This is the second part of the excerpt from The Bluebottle Boys (Volume Two), relating to Moseley Bog. At the point where it ends, Reggie is headed into the Bog, but it will be an “alternative” sort of Bog, with many more […]
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SNEAK PREVIEW! First of a Two-part Glimpse into “The Bluebottle Boys” (Volume Two) Notes: (1) Today and next Tuesday, I’m presenting a Sneak Preview of a portion of Volume Two of “The Bluebottle Boys.” On Thursday, May 4, there will be a special announcement. The serialising of Volume One of “The Bluebottle Boys” resumes on […]
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Tolkien’s Birmingham: A Modern Visit To Moseley Bog The modern Moseley Bog is not, I’m sorry to say, very visitor-friendly when it comes to visitors arriving by motor vehicle. They’re a bit abelist, and expect everybody to walk – a walk that could be some considerable distance for some. There are two (count ’em, two) […]
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Tolkien’s Birmingham: (Part 4): Impressions of Moseley Bog from Sarehole Mill — as reflected in The Bluebottle Boys [This is the second part of the excerpt from The Bluebottle Boys, relating to Moseley Bog. At the point where it ends, Reggie is headed into the Bog, but it will be an “alternative” sort of Bog, […]
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Tolkien’s Birmingham: (Part 4): Impressions of Moseley Bog from Sarehole Mill — as reflected in The Bluebottle Boys [The featured picture is no fantasy painting but an actual photograph, shot shortly after sunrise, of Moseley Bog. This post and the one that will follow Thursday are truncated excerpts from my upcoming novel The Bluebottle Boys, […]
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Tolkien’s Birmingham: Part 3 (Sarehole Mill – The Real Shire) “Hobbiton was a village on a stream locally known as The Water, a short distance west of Bywater. It had a mill, (Sarehole Mill) and there was a small inn called the Ivy Bush at the eastern end of the village, on the road to […]
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Tolkien’s Birmingham: Part 2 Wake Green Road, Gracewell Cottages, Sarehole Mill – The Outskirts Of The Shire Take Birmingham’s A4040 outer ring road from Stratford-on-Avon road west at speed towards Moseley, near the M42 turn-off. You’ll pass plenty of suburban homes – fairly leafy, not a mass, of regimented grids and circles, the way you’ll […]
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