Welcome to new visitors; I hope you'll find this site helpful and that you find the information that you want, both about my writings and about Thrumpton Hall, the beautiful house and landscaped park that my family offer for filming, in-house and marquee weddings and events. You can contact me directly about book-related questions on mirandajseymour@btinternet.com.
For information about Thrumpton Hall, please visit www.thrumptonhall.com. I am currently writing a non-fiction account of the love affair between England and Germany that ended in 1940.

Concreting the Pastures

These are two untold true stories of where greenbelt land is being used for the wrong purposes and for all the wrong reasons. The material used here is free for anybody to use. Pictures are available of both areas (Surrey and Nottinghamshire) If you support the idea that Greenbelt land should be used where necessary housing is provided, but not for private gain, corrupt ends or non residential use, please suppor this by sharing it,printing it, talking about it. Democracy must have a voice and - in this situation - I know of no better way to get the news out there.

The material is fully researched, documented and - as of 23 December 2014 - current. Both these sites can still be saved. They are rare and beautiiful and none of this development needs to happen here.

Thanks

Diary of an Unknown Soldier

A gritty print shows the head of a young soldier at Verdun on the Western Front. Softly, in the quiet voice of an old-fashioned breed (it could be the voice of a Siegfried Sassoon or Robert Graves), he speaks of his private terrors. He compares himself to his colleagues. There's Tom, the oldhander who never shows fear and who now, as the young man looks towards him for reassurance, refuses to meet his eye.  There's Crompton, coldly angry, declaring his readiness to bayonet three Germans, at the least, before the end of the day