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Coxwold, Laurence Sterne, Regency, The Fauconberg Arms, The Viking and The Courtesan, TIme Mutants, Tristam Shandy, Vikings, Yorkshire
Places stayed. Hovingham – one free night. The Worsley Arms.
Easingwold – The George Hotel.
Places would stay again – 1
Places visited. Hovingham, Coxwold, Helmsley, Easingwold, York, Ampleforth Estates.
Places driven through by mistake…rather a lot. …
Places not stayed. The Old Vicarage Easingwold now closed.
Walks – Ampleforth Estates. York Walls
Hecklers spotted- One
Attractions visited – Railway Museum York
Attractions not visited. The Minster- there was a wedding on as in NOT just the ceremony….place closed.
Pubs visited – The George Hotel, Easingwold, Yorkshire Terrier, Three Legged Mare, Guy Fawkes,York. Fauconberg Arms, Coxwold -where Malice spent her non wedding night with her her cousin/hubby in the Viking and The Coutesan backstory. The Malt and Shovel, Hovingham.
Faux Pubs – The Cricketers Arms, Hovingham.
Alcohol consumed – No telling.
Dundee mentions – one
Pairs of shoes and boots worn – all of them.
‘Twice, the sight of him had almost caused her to expire. When she had walked into the church at Coxwold and seen him standing there with a carnation in his lapel—their wedding day—and then that night in his apartment. Very well. She lied. It was thrice. When she had knocked on the door of his room at the little inn across from the church.
Now, seeing him chucking wine down his throat as if the vineyard was about to run dry, casting his eye over some serving girl–her backside rather—and wagering what Lady Grace possessed, nausea rose in her gorge. When she considered a man who made her heart pound–a man who she should not be thinking of here–her heart also pounded wastefully. Whatever the problem with Cyril—and there were a good twenty dozen—you knew where you stood with him. That was nowhere at all.
She glided closer. She had come to speak with him, wife to husband. And she had chosen here to do it because it was public. Those who thought the sun shone from the backend of his brown velvet breeches had a lot to learn.
“My lord.”
Of course, she might have known Cyril would be more interested in looking at her breasts than her face. Maybe she should have ventured in here topless? Still, at least he was looking at her.
“Cyril. Husband.”
Now that jerked his chin up. If ever there was a way to bring a dog to heel, this was surely it.
“I knew I should find you here before me, my dearest. And involved in a wager too. My lords, you must excuse Cyril, especially when he does not possess the money to pay any debts. And, we are shortly to require every penny we own.”
“Malice?” He peered at her closely. “Malice? Is that you?”
“Most certainly it’s not Aunt Carter’s silver teapot, my dearest husband.”
copyright Shehanne Moore Soul Mate Publishing.
That’s about right for a Shey holiday….trains that go nowhere…. the church warden saw you coming and locked up quick….you propped up a wall ….and had an endless pub crawl. Yep, a good holiday then ! 🙂 ❤
And all in a few days flat too Ralpha. Nowt like it x
Great fun post Shey.. the Dudes have some laugh out loud dialogue here Excellent! Pxxx.
Dear Paul,
We would have had more but Shey never let us.
Love
The poor deprived dudes. who never got on that holiday either.
Wot a meanie Guys! Honestly!!!
We know. Sob sob sob
The weeping dudes
x
What an adventure you’ve been on! Lots of yummy ideas!
It was hectic but fun yah know, places tah visit, things tah see and we have been to Yorkshire so many times that we tend to walk for one of these days and ahem pub crawl one of the others…
A good pub crawl would be fun right now. I’ve never done one and I’m getting up there in years. Might be too late for me!
Leslie!! You HAVE to do one. We do them often cos we are bad….. In fact going crawling in Dundee on Sat cos the Almost Blue Festival is on. So the added advantage is we will hear a pile of bands….
What a super break in York – a gorgeous city. Lovely pics. And I bet York Minster saw the dudes coming and bolted the doors! The Malice extract is a cracker too. Congrats.
OF course they bolted the doors. Who could afford an actual wedding reception in there after all??? York is a great city. Hoping to get back next year and take the wee man to see the trains. He loves trains. We won’t get to all the places we love round about but hey, we will hopefully do that another time. The 20 quid is in the post as agreed. You are way too kind. c
Lucky Riley! I took my own wee man on a steam train ride to Dartmouth last week and he adored it.
He is train daft Kate. I think they do adore trains and being on them at that age. We took wee man to Arbroath from the wee station just down the road here last summer. My god, he nearly zoomed there himself with excitement. A ten min journey and you would have thought we had taken him to the moon. We were actually down in Yorkshire with the intention of just checking out the museum again and seeing how we’d do it. Hoping to stay in Easingwold still cos we just bus from there to York and that place was really nice. Not our usual but just across the road. So we could go down by train with him. Anyway we think we have it planned. Bet your train trip was lovely down where you are.
‘Attractions not visited’ has to be the surreal line of the day. It stands alone but would make for a great metaphor in a lyric. Enjoyed this, Shey – also the old man reminded me the other day to send his regards.
Help yirself to that line if you want. I would be well honoured. I bet my boots you get a whole fantastic song out of that somehow. Tell yir old man, missing his poems and delish prose. Hope he’s no behaving x
Ps… glimpsing the floor of the minster all covered with fancy tables and chairs for a wedding reception WAS surreal actually.
Fantastic post,gorgeous photo series,darling,darling Shey!You did have a great time,my lovely one.I particularly like the Minster photo with the magnificent upward perspective,glad to see your self portraits,my beautiful Scottish Lady xxxxxxx
Listne my gorgeous darling, darling, Doda you take such amazing photos, if I can get my camera to focus I am lucky. The Minster was just a diff perspective. We did have a great time. Very hectic but good. I thought I would allow a few pics.. xxxxxxx
Me taking gorgeous photos?I I’m a completely amateur photographer,I usually photo at random without using any specific techniques because I mostly focus on the subject and I don’t intend to become an expert … Thank you for your compliment,darling darling Shey xxxxxx
I always think your photos are stunning , there you go. Maybe it’s because you Do focus on the subject, ro there’s that subject for us. x
Dear Shey, for some reason, WP seems to have unfollowed me from you in the last few days, so I’ve just had to re-follow you. I’m most bemused, as I’ve been receiving email notifications of your posts throughout my time of not being around much.
Of course, I love your book extract, and you already know that book is on my to-read list.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sarah, I know. I have been getting a ton of notifications and they are all from people I know follow, who, like you, are getting my notifications. In fact I am not just getting notifications once of everything but in triplicate. And today I got another load about comments on other blogs that someone had liked. The same set that came in yesterday AND the day before. I am just wondering if it is that hair tearing new law under which I too have to accept everything on MY site before getting on it. And don’t get me started on the window damned dressing it is when it comes to Big Brother. My fangs will fall out from gnashing them. You’re too sweet. I did have fun with that scene as it went on between Malice and her totally useless hubby. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Shey, that sounds a nightmare. What on earth is going on? Have you asked the WP techies about it? Perhaps they should check it out, just to be sure that nobody has hacked into your site and are playing silly b’s with it. As for Big Brother — my teeth are bared at the very mention of all the intrusion. I hate this new darned EU cookie laws that pose as being for our protection but are quite the opposite. If you say “no” on some sites to allowing the cookies, you’re stopped from looking at the site. That’s when the “f-word” escapes my lips, and I’m darned if I’ll be forced to say yes to something I want to say no to. Grrrrrrr. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
That law is a snooper’s charter. it’s disgraceful. it’s just legitimizing their snooping frankly which we all know they do by the ad choices you get. If this goes on I will get onto WP. BUT it has just been since that law came in and I know others are having trouble too. xxxxx
Only six pairs, Shey? What about all your other pairs – it is always a good idea not to play favourites with shoes [smile]. Looks like you had a great time and visited a lot of pubs which is always a plus.
Oh my 150 pairs of shoes understand they can’t all come for what is essentially a three day trip if you take the travelling time off. And they will get their turn. We did indeed have a great time in a fab area. x
Wow, what a beautiful tour, like walking through a story book. And of course, the dudes make it extra fun. 🙂 xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yorkshire is a lovely place and York is some city. We’ve been so many times that we tend to go to do walking now and also a have one of the days just spent wandering York, listening to the street music, visiting the bars, shopping. x
I’ve been there, 20 years ago now! Lol that makes me feel old 🙂 xxx
Well…we first went in ahem… 1983…. And we stayed in the Old Vicarage in Easingwold, and you know we have stayed there every time until this time.
A wonderful trip Shey… I keep meaning to write more desert Island stories… but only six pairs of shoes for three days.. what were you thinking!! hugsxxxxx
Well… I had to make room for the several bags, scarves, sundry outfits, coats and of course Mr Shey. Yes. It is really nice in that bit of Yorkshire. You can’t help but enjoy it.
Looks like a great trip..and weather held by the look of it.. xxxx
It did Sally. We never usually bother too much about weather. I mean when we go to Glencoe you just accept you could be spending the whole weekend in pouring rain. The Thursday was that day after that storm. it was also the day we chose to spend walking so we did battle that a bit at times still. But the other days while it clouded it wasn’t cold or rainy.
Sounds fun Shehanne and I really enjoyed the excerpt. 🙂
Lol…alas I am a born to party girl Marje. I just wanna have fun and this was. Hectic — oh yes — but fun. And thank you seriously. I had a lot of fun writing them as a couple who aren’t, not in any way.
Glad you had fun Shehanne. I’m a great believer in fun too! xxx
Life’s too short to have anything else but fun Marje xxxx
Love the pics, and the pubs mentioned and the menu and oh everything, lol. Glad you had a great time. xxx
Adele, that menu at breakfast was great actually and I say that as someone who does not eat breakfast. Never have. As for the pubs? We is bad that way. xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I love going round different pubs, or I used to before I needed a stick to walk. Damn back. xxxx
Adele, that is awful. Hell, lassie, awful. I admit I love a good pub crawl. Especially of a winter afternoon. And we aye have one day in York where we just wander about, listen to the buskers, shop , etc, and then do the rounds before grabbing a fish supper and heading for the bus back to Easingwold. Sorry you have that bother. xxxx
Ah, it’s probably for the best those dudes out on a delightful holiday. But then I can’t imagine you having to bail them out of jail, Shey, after trying to steal a train or three.
Oh! And the excerpt is, of course, exquisite. I love how your characters dish it out to one another with luscious relish. 😉 xxxxxxxxxxxx
Yes they’d have eaten those trains….. AND run rover half the countryside, . like gangstahs. You are way too kind Lady Jean. I did love writing that scene cos boy does she dish it out in every way, turning every table you can turn. But then it all backfires when he turns one back. I loved writing their dynamic even if they are not and never will be a couple. He’s actually pretty awful as you can see but I didn’t want to make him an outright shit, the villain of the piece who has never loved her. I wanted to make him quite quietly likeable.
And you did! I’m realizing that with one of my baddies in my Princeborn series, too–the villainy, you could say, is just one part of him, sewn in him very early on. If the villainy is all there is to a villain, they’re just so…meh. Shoulder-shruggers, you know? But your characters are never, EVER flat, my dear. A spark from your imagination is all it takes to ignite the fire of a new character. 🙂 xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
There’s no such thing is my book as an out and out villain. Every one has a past and a present they are trying to keep hold of. That’s it for me/ x
fun
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adventure 🙂
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I LOVE it xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx And a happy week to you.l
I´m proud with people so lovely as you my dear Shehanne.

I am proud to know you my friend x
Look at you, beauty-face! And good call on the shoes! oxo
One pair was of course my hill boots. They don’t count you know. Sistah, yir too kind xxxxxxxxx
and you are hilarious!😂😂😂
Dir PJ
It is is who r that.
Live
The Dudes
xxx
I’m not sure six pairs of shoes was enough for a long weekend break. I really enjoyed this blog post, I got all caught up in your travels, drinking establishments, location for your book and then the extract from the book…all truly sparkling. So glad you had a lovely break and enjoyed yourself xxxxxxx
You know I’m not sure 6 pairs was enough either especially as one pair were hill boots. I am afraid we do like a hike round the pubs. Work hard, play harder is my motto. I am thrilled you enjoyed. Been so hectic lately I was a bit stuck thinking up a post. And thank you, thank you for your kind words. I truly loved writing the dynamic between a couple who aren’t in any sense of the word and creating the feckless Cyril who has his reasons for doing the things he does. xx
When me and himself used to get away for a weekend or a holiday we had to 1. Try the local fish and chips, 2. Go for a curry, 3. Try out the cocktails in as many bars as possible…Hill boots definitely required in the UK and sometimes abroad too!!! Xxxxxx
Now THAT is my kind of hol xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Am counting days now till we get back to the Clachaig in Glencoe in August. Mountains you fall out your bed onto, sweet air, live music and every type of drink in the bar. x
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A fun and interesting post, Shey. The hammies put a smile on my face and I loved the photos. xxx
Aw Carol xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Glad the dudes did that. And that you liked the pics. I was a bit short on inspiration but they cobbled something together xxx
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I liked the way you wove this post, like those hamstahs weaving a shrug or shawl, Shehanne!
Full of books and place references within your books, which looks like you may have had a vacation. . . I hope so, my dear! 💕 You and the Mister Shey need moments of relaxation. Especially so needed after theatre production, with much of your heart and energy, oh and Dundee included. ❤️
I was excited how you included locations in books I own! Yay! 📣🎉🎆🎈
I still love my books, “The Viking and the Courtesan”, “The Unraveling of Lady Fury,” and “Loving Lady Lazuli!” You are such a fascinating romantic author. No holds barred!! 😊 xx
AW Robin… you are way too kind. We did indeed have a few days away. A very hectic few days at that. It was the week after the play. I did indeed include 3 Yorkshire locations. AS you can see one in the Viking here but Lady Lazuli, the monk’s cell was based on one I saw at Mount Grace Priory and like that while it was called a cell it was a cottage. It was the only one still standing and it was very interesting to wander round it too. Have a lovely day Robin. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Innovative…
Oh, it’s a bit bonkers here, my friend xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yes, with so much love and creativity!❤❤❤❤❤
You are way too kind. The little dudes happened by accident really. Now I just let them run the show xxxxx I hope you have a lovely day.
Ah yes, this brings back memories of a wonderful read– I mean the Viking and the Courtesan of course, though the master’s work is also wonderful. 😉
Dir Carlee, mi wirk is bist ind ……
Dear Carolee, just be glad I have silenced the master AND not let him near my kindle since your new book is there and he will scoff it.
Shey xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx