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Step Two - Playing with your Puppy
Step 2 – "Spend time playing with your puppy to create a bond of trust."The book recommends the simple game of ‘Fetch’, which sounds ever so easy. You throw a stick or a ball or some other toy and...
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The Contradictory Portrayal to Two Like-Minded Kings
It is interesting the way in which propaganda can be used to destroy or to extol a character, and more interesting, perhaps, that in spite of years of being bombarded with slanted stories, so many...
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Step 3 – Socialise Your Dog
“It is important that your dog gets used to people and other dogs while he is still a puppy. Socialise him as much as possible by introducing him to new people and situations.”Ah ha, here is the easy...
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"Wonderful Walter"
I am delighted that very soon, as I continue to work on a biography of Princess Alice, we will be bringing out a series of children’s books – ‘Wonderful Walter’. Beautifully and brilliantly...
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"Look Inside..."
The first book in our Walter series - Wonderful Walter - is now available in Kindle format.In this first story, Walter’s attempts to help his mother lead to disaster when he inadvertently bumps into...
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Free For One Day Only!
Free Today!For one day only Wonderful Walteris available free on Kindle! Please help yourself to a copy and enjoy the story and the pictures!
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I apologise for the failure of the previous video to open; and thank you to those people who wrote to tell me of it.This one works!
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The Diary of Olga Romanov - An Interview With Helen Azar
I am delighted to present an interview with Helen Azar, librarian, translator and author of The Diary of Olga Romanov, Royal Witness to the Russian Revolution, which will be released this autumn. Based...
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7 Things I Like About This Book
A very lovely post from the Crochet Concupisence blog. Seven things I like about "Wonderful Walter"
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Queen Victoria - A Caring Mother
Further to my post about the documentary 'Queen Victoria's Children' , during the research for my forthcoming biography of Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, I am frequently left in amazement at...
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...murdered in Ekaterinburg, July 17th 1918, by the Bolsheviks at the behest of others... A moving video from 'Mikolaevich'
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Happy Yorkshire Day from Yorkshire!It might be a vain hope now, but Yorkshire Day is a good time to remember that Richard III was made very welcome here and did a great deal of good for the people of...
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Step 4 - Join a Puppy Class
Making slow progress on our own, Bertie and I joined an excellent puppy class. Here, we can learn how to work together on things like walking, stopping, meeting other dogs, meeting people...and general...
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Now Available in Paperback
I am very happy to announce that our children's book Wonderful Walter is now available in paperback via Amazon in the UK and Europe as well as in the United States. The book is aimed at 7-11 year-olds...
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FREE - This Weekend Only
To celebrate the launch of of Wonderful Walter series in paperback, we have made Kindle versions of the first book: Wonderful Walter available for free this weekend. Do, please help yourselves and, if...
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Carrots, Apples & Puerperal Fever
Researching my forthcoming biography of Princess Alice, I came across some interesting and rather sad accounts of the ‘Laying-In Hospitals’, ostensibly founded to combat the high infant mortality rates...
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The Kaiser's Gentlemanly Kindness
As someone who firmly believes that Kaiser Wilhelm has been shockingly defamed by many historians, I was delighted to come across this rather touching story...
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Queen Victoria's Granddaughters
This blog has been a little abandoned for a time due to various circumstances - including a change of computer programmes, which made it difficult for me to sign in! I am happy to say it is now back up...
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Happy Birthday, Grand Duchess Elizabeth
Happy Birthday, Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia, who was born on All Saints Day 1864 and named after her ancestor St Elizabeth of Hungary. The lives of the two Elizabeths were to bear a remarkable...
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Coming soon
Coming soon – Alice, The Enigma - a new biography of Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse. Over the next few days, more information about the inspiration for the book and my purpose in writing it...
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