Author Archives: Matt's Tale
A Return to the Road to Canterbury – and beyond….
It’s now almost 20 years on from when I started this blog, and nearly 35 years on from that fateful day I returned back to New Zealand to watch my mother’s decline from multiple myelloma over the space of a … Continue reading
From Tales of One Saint….
As some of you may know, quite a few years’ back now I developed a fascination with Geoffrey Chaucer and not only his significant contribution to the English language – his book, The Canterbury Tales, was the first book to … Continue reading
Saint Gemma’s Tale
There was no mistaking it – a distinct circle of light was shining around her head! The setting was not some historic place, but in an open plan office in a business park. We had recently moved positions in the … Continue reading
The Pirate of Portsmouth’s Tale
“Sometimes you don’t have to go very far to have an adventure….” I wasn’t really expecting anything of Portsmouth – it was just a place I had to come for work. So ’twas much to my surprise to discover a … Continue reading
The Forgotten Highway
Here’s what I call “a crazy caravan thought” as I continue to sit here in England, biding my time, waiting for the next opportunity to call: Is Canterbury now really (and perhaps ironically) like Camelot? A place slowly ceasing to … Continue reading
‘Snow better Down Under
I also learned my lesson that Kiwis run their words together when I arrived in the UK a year after that excursion in the East Coast of Australia – however with rather amusing consequences which managed to lead me to … Continue reading
Accepting the Vegemite Sandwich
OK, fair enough in deference to my previous post on the good choice of Chaucer to buy into local lingo, and even with accepting the so-so nature of the Mark Zuckerberg dialectic, there are some nuances with mis-use of the English … Continue reading
So incommunicado Mr Zuckerberg!
My best British mate, Dave, dropped me an article on Saturday from The Telegraph in relation to the theme of social media following in Chaucer’s footsteps with evolving the English language. Here’s the link to it: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mark-zuckerberg/10833860/So-not-quite-the-useless-conjunction-we-like-to-believe.html In my mind I can … Continue reading
The Way of Life
If only writer’s block had been my only problem, as it was those weeks’ (sorry, months’) back when I wrote my last post. An even bigger challenge has been the absence of sufficient income coming through in time to justify … Continue reading
Just write
So the book, for anyone who’s wondering, is still coming on. Although the means to bring some modern day realism to it – for helping close these chapters of modern day life in parallel with those of Geoffrey Chaucer’s day – … Continue reading
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