I always think of individual cells when I think of dungeons, but the two places I’ve seen that have been used as dungeons at castles were one room like this. There was even a “toilet.” I didn’t get a picture of it, very narrow stairs and too many people trying to get a look. But pretty cool. But it’s a place you wouldn’t want to stay for any length of time!
Have to take one of the dogs for his shots and then I’m back to work writing and editing!
Have a delightful day!
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
Can you imagine being a guard on the wall walk watching for danger?
I loved seeing the castles in Scotland and envisioned being there in the far distant past. Of course, I also thought about how all these buildings are in amazing shape for being so old! Don’t you wish your home could last like that? Though with all the amenities we have today!
I’m off on the writing journey for the day. I’m trying to learn more on marketing! I love to write mystery in my books, but marketing is still a mystery to me!
Have a beautiful day!!!
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
I love old buildings and these on the Midhope Castle property in Scotland, the first two behind the castle, would have had some importance at some time. What were they used for? The one has two chimneys. Another residence, maybe? I can just envision the staff of the keep busily working in all of these places.
I’m still working on my website, nearly have it sort of straightened out. I still need to do a lot on it, but for now, at least it has better uniformity for the book covers and the setup isn’t as squirrely. 🙂 I still need to make sure all my buy links are there and they work. With over a hundred books published, the task was daunting!
I’m off to work. Want to get back to writing, but still having jet lag issues. Waking up at 3 every morning. Hopefully, my sleep pattern will be back to normal soon.
Hope everyone is safe where the hurricane is hitting now!
Have a stupendous day!
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
Blackness Castle is a 15th-century fortress located on the south shore of the Firth of Forth, in Scotland. And see the little crab? When we entered the castle, there it was inside the tunnel of a walkway. He had to travel a long way to find his way in there.
Notice all the rocky terrain inside? Can you imagine trying to maneuver over that all the time?The rocks near that one entry into the keep was slippery and though it looks easy to navigate, like there’s a path, it’s not all that smooth and yet it is smooth enough to make it very slippery. It was misting on us that day. Very well preserved medieval castle.
Can you imagine our homes lasting that long?
I’m still redoing my website. Off to work and then having lunch with my granddaughter!
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
Midhope Castle, West Lothian, Scotland. I just love old castles.
It’s the real-life location of Lallybroch, the ancestral home of Jamie Fraser in the Outlander series.
A family actually lives here, which is why it is kept up so nicely.
My birds haven’t come back after I starved them for two weeks. The squirrels are back though. It doesn’t take long for them to figure out there’s a handout for them. It was so nice and cool this morning, I was out weeding. I hope it continues to be cool in the morning so I can keep after it.
I’m off to work on the two stories I’m finishing up that I wrote scenes for on the plane coming and going and I need to work on my website pages some more.
Have a super fun day!!!
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
I have no illusions of grandeur. If I had lived at this castle in times of old, I’m sure I would have been one of the scullery maids.
But it sure was fun checking them out. I’m off to bring the puppies home. I’m sure they feel I abandoned them forever!
So if you had been here, what would you have been? A Lord? A Lady? A warrior? A farmer? Whatever it was, you would NOT have wanted to have been a prisoner in the dungeon!
Have a beautiful day!
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
I was going to share some trip pictures but I can’t download them to my computer, so I’m getting an SD reader that will hopefully download them instead.
I’m off to get some weeding done. When we got back, everything was green, just like the grass in this picture and the weeds and the new flowers are all out. lol Which means I have to weed again!
But I need to work on edits too and pick up my dogs from boarding them. We wanted to pick up the dogs yesterday, but they were closed for Easter. Poor dogs. As soon as I walk in the house, I’m greeted, they want to sit on my lap, want petting, etc., so it seems so weird not to have them underfoot with their cheery little expressions.
Just got a call from the groomer at the kennel. She says they are so badly matted they can’t groom them without shaving them. I don’t know how they get so messed up at this place. The other place I’ve taken them to were fine. So I’ll pick them up, groom them myself, and once they’re not matted, I’ll take them to a different groomer to trim them up nice and neat and bathe them again. So I have my work cut out for me.
We’re also seeing The Lost City this afternoon. I hope it’s as good as Romancing the Stone–another romance author story where the author gets caught up in the real world of danger.
The castle is actually a picture that I had taken, along with the castle gardens in another picture and the clouds were another shot. In Scotland, I would often get white sky backgrounds so I needed to add clouds. I also added texture for fun. And the dragon, of course.
Ugh, Daylight Savings Time. I need to remember to reset my car clock.
I soared with the dragons yesterday! I ended up writing 7,000 words on Wolf Pack. It’s a novella, so now I have 9,000 words done. Yay!! I shoot for 23K on a novella, but sometimes they end up around 33K. It just depends on the story, but I’m having a blast writing it. It’s a medieval Highland wolf story, first that I’ve done.
I’ve got to run errands, not wanting to, but we’re celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day and I am out of food again.
Cemetery in Scotland, pretty flowers growing on the ancient stone. And the dark, dark castle. You can imagine without torches, it would be very dark, the only light coming from the window above. 🙂
Baby is here and between a cold and getting two more teeth in, she’s a handle, poor thing. So just getting my blog done during a 15 minute nap.
Hope your day is going great! It’s COLD here. Loving it. 🙂
Terry
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
