Archive | 19.02.2010
- Anita and Tom
Anita spent a few minutes adjusting the table to ensure that everything was set just so for her husband Tom. It wasn't that he was particularly demanding. Far from it, he was actually quite accommodating and rarely pressed her about things around the house. In many ways he was the ideal husband - more than willing to pitch in with the "domestic" chores, and without a chauvinistic bone in his body.
Which was exactly why she was going out of her way to please him, Anita contemplated with a note of ... more
- At His Pleasure
It was the summer of 1685, and my father, Sir James Campion, had been imprisoned for his support of the Monmouth Rebellion. King Charles II"s illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth, had come back from exile to take the throne from his Catholic uncle, James II. He came with 4,000 supporters, Protestants all, who were opposed to the reign of a Catholic. The King"s army soundly defeated Monmouth and his followers at the Battle of Sedgemoor. Supporters of the Rebellion had been captured, rounded up, ... more