Showing posts with label gossip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gossip. Show all posts

Sunday, February 17, 2019

Meet the Village Gossip


A portrait of Tidburg, the gossip responsible for distorting the story that has come down to us as Cinderella.

 You know the sort of person who always seems to turn up when she is least welcome? In Courting Trouble that person is Tidburg. She has a nose for news and an ear for a good story, and both of those are more important to her than accuracy. We first see Tidburg in action when a villager recounts a salacious story about the queen.
The village gossip Tidburg, quick to sniff out a story, slithered into the group right next to the speaker . . . .

Monday, November 19, 2018

The Villagers

A group of villagers in Easton, near Winchester, scheme to get the king and his court to leave town. The year is 801.

The villagers are scheming to get the royal entourage out of town. They don't want to feed the court while they winter in Winchester. Courting Trouble
The villagers had assembled under the yew trees, and the royals were the hot topic. One of the women had apparently heard a good one about the queen.

An Enchanted Evening

In Courting Trouble a young warrior is eager to prove himself. He goes in search of conquest. Along the way, he is directed to an encha...