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18 Nov 2015

Woman in a Yurt Video Diary 11 – We’re Still Standing!

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: 60 is the new 21, Bolder not Older, Communing with Nature, Nature, Wintering in a Yurt Video Diary | 2

Like huge freight trains and low flying B52 bombers the storm hurls itself up and over the land here in the wild of Wales. A massive creature it rumbles and shakes the ground. Tucked up inside my yurt I can … Continued

17 Nov 2015

Woman in a Yurt Video Diary 10 – Baptism By Fire-wood!

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: 60 is the new 21, Bolder not Older, Wintering in a Yurt Video Diary | 1

Baptism by fire? More like baptism by firewood! I had no idea how tough a job that would be – to stack over two dumpy loads worth of dry logs against the clock with no idea when the next torrential … Continued

11 Nov 2015

Wintering in a Yurt Video Diary 8 – I’ve arrived!

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: 60 is the new 21, Bolder not Older, Wintering in a Yurt Video Diary | 8

It’s raining! It’s pouring! But nonetheless I moved in to the yurt yesterday after three months or so of getting ready and vacillating between thinking I was mad for choosing this as a winter home, and being excited at the … Continued

6 Nov 2015

Wintering in a Yurt Video Diary 7 – Its the Final Countdown!!

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: 60 is the new 21, Bolder not Older, Wintering in a Yurt Video Diary | 3

I own a pair of snow boots! Usually the moment I see snow, or even a hint of ice on the street I become incapable of walking properly. I’m so terrified of falling over and breaking something useful like a … Continued

Five Bridges, Three Frontiers and 150 Euros

‘Was the post-break-up adventure I’d embarked upon going to end in the loneliest of deaths in the middle of nowhere? Was my determination finally to live life on my own terms going to kill me as surely as Isadora Duncan’s scarf killed her?’ Sandy Locksmith

Five Bridges, Three Frontiers and 150 Euros Emerging from a fever-induced fantasy of the beginning of the world Sandy faces the shocking reality. She’s held captive by a psychopathic vagrant, imprisoned in a medieval citadel cradled deep within an empty valley in rural France, and being subjected to terrifying sexual assaults. It’s the middle of a freezing December. How did she end up in such a hopeless position and what can it take to transform it? Sandy is certain that somewhere among all the unusual experiences she’s had over the previous month lies the key to her freedom. We journey back with her to the middle of November. In her late forties, post menopausal and childless Sandy has been trying to ‘create her own reality’ for months… The first novel in the Waking The Lions trilogy.