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12 Jan 2016

Woman in a Yurt Video Diary 19 – Is It All Worth It?

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: 60 is the new 21, Bolder not Older, Wintering in a Yurt Video Diary | 4

Warning lights? Why are they on? I’d just finished my online work in The Red Lion pub, a warm place with free wifi and great lunches, when the warning lights came on as I started the car. I pressed … Continued

21 Dec 2015

Woman in a Yurt Video Diary 17 – Stripped Naked!

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

Stripped naked and raw, that’s how I felt on the Saturday before Christmas. Nothing was right with the world. Even the sound of the buzzards over the valley didn’t perk me up. I was miserable, grumpy and generally feeling like … Continued

5 Dec 2015

Woman in a Yurt Video Diary 15 – Fear-full!

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: 60 is the new 21, Bolder not Older, Nature, Wintering in a Yurt Video Diary | 0

Fear-full! My life has been flavoured by fear for as long as I can remember. As a toddler I remember dreams which kept me off balance – strange anomalies in the house I was living in when floors between rooms … 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

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.