Author dorabenley

Part of the confusion about high tea vs. afternoon tea is the tourist industry. I could swear that I’ve seen “high tea” promoted in Britain advertising scones, tea sandwiches, etc. I looked it up online.They said the same thing you… Continue Reading →

In my novel Hitler plays his Thomasina card for all it’s worth. He’s trying to force the Wares to hand over the Lawrence maps. If they don’t he’ll convert Thomasina into the Shirley Temple of Germany.

We’ve started to read about the desert pigs online. Apparently they came from South America and are even bigger in the Amazon rain forest. If you get too many of them around your neighborhood or yard, you can attract mountain… Continue Reading →

Can’t wait to see your pictures of your spooky walk. Where on earth are you going? More Bronze Age Burial Mounds? Castles? By the way that’s another thing you have that the USA doesn’t — castles. You can’t really be… Continue Reading →

Boy, you’d better believe it! St Simons Island is REALLY spooky. I will post more photos just in time for Halloween. I’ll add some from nearby Hilton Head in South Carolina, too. Believe it or not, they have alligators swimming… Continue Reading →

As far as St. Simons Island is concerned, though it has nothing to do with Hitler or WW2, I will post some of my photos of the place. It’s pure Southern Gothic. Even you will think the live oaks with… Continue Reading →

One of the scariest ghost stories I ever heard was narrated by a New Orleans lady in Charlottesville who was thinking of coming to my writers’ group and never did. She had a ho hum attitude just like yours. She… Continue Reading →

Stonehenge When I visited Stonehenge two years ago I thought that was the only area of Britain that had Bronze Age Burial Mounds. It made the landscape around the stones so gothic it was over the top. I’ve read that… Continue Reading →

Terrible news about the desert pigs! We called a garden center. They said it was useless to put up garden fences. Only brick walls and chain link work to keep javelinas out of the garden. We’ve got brick walls and… Continue Reading →