The Five Realms Blog
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The inspiration of games
Games inspire me as a writer, that's how I get away with playing them. In my free time only of course, because I know from past experience that it's possible to quite easily lose 8-12+ hours in a game. I get sore eyes nowadays, so I stop sooner. It was in World of...

Dark Cambridge
One night when I was visiting my daughter, we went for a spooky walk around some of the colleges. Once again, I have to apologise for the photo quality. These were taken on a phone which was not quite as good as the one I now have. This was so enjoyable, that I might...

Cambridge: City of Dreams
Pictured above: Top: Newnham college in autumn and a detail of King's College, Cambridge. In the East of England, there's a city famous all over the world for its university. I'm writing about Cambridge today because it's the inspiration for Vanar University. There...