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Dear Reader,

Always a satisfying moment, Iā€™ve completed the storyboard for Operation Cameo, book six in my (Amazon #1 šŸ™‚) Eveā€™s War Heroines of SOE series. Next week, I will start on the first draft. Eve is feisty while her partner Guy is a pacifist. Based on true events.

My direct ancestor Joan, Countess of Kent (29 September 1328 ā€“ 7 August 1385) known to history as ā€˜The Fair Maid of Kent.ā€™ French chronicler Jean Froissart described her as ā€œthe most beautiful woman in all the realm of England, and the most loving.ā€

Joan gave birth to my ancestor Thomas Holland and later when married to her third husband Edward Plantagenet ā€˜the Black Princeā€™, Richard II.

My direct ancestor Thomas Meade was born c1380 in Wraxall, Somerset. His parents were Thomas Atte Meade and Agnes Wycliff.

Thomas died in 1455 and this extract from his will offers an insight intoā€¦

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The Child Who Should Never Have Been

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Short Story: The Child Who Should Never Have Been by Penny Luker

If Iā€™d only listened to my father just a little more carefully; shown a bit more patience. I regret it now of course. Now I can no longer see him. I didnā€™t know anything about my mother, just that sheā€™d been beautiful and quickly bored. My father said that when mother found she was pregnant, she didnā€™t want to have a baby, but because he so desperately did, sheā€™d been dutiful and careful and given him the best present that anyone ever could.

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Dear Reader #122

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Hannah Howe

Dear Reader,

Some chart news. The pre-order for Damaged has entered the hot new releases chart at #48 alongside international bestselling authors Robert Bryndza and Michael Connelly.

Damaged is book nineteen in my Sam Smith Mystery Series. Many thanks to everyone who has followed Samā€™s story.

A new yearā€™s 2021 resolution achieved. Victory against chess.comā€™s computer, level 2000. This is the final position from a RĆ©ti Opening: Nimzowitsch-Larsen Variation. The computer over-extended in the centre (a common motif in this variation) lost a pawn and allowed my rook to reach the seventh rank. My a and b pawns became active and the computer had to sacrifice material to stop them queening.

Computers are very good at calculation, and can out-calculate me, so I use positional openings against them. If I gain a positional advantage, sometimes I can convert that into a winning position.

In this monthā€™s issue of Momā€™s Favoriteā€¦

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Singing Bowls and Healing Sounds

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Singing Bowls and Healing Sounds by Val Tobin

Vibration, the third sacred principle of the Kybalion, the book written by unknown hermetic teachers and interpreted by Doreen Virtue in her book Divine Magic, states that ā€œNothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.ā€ In sound therapy, singing bowls, the voice, or even music use this principle and the science of entrainment to encourage healing in the body.

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Dear Reader #121

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Hannah Howe

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Iā€™ve received messages asking me when Operation Cameo, book six in my Eveā€™s War Heroines of SOE series, will be available. Iā€™m pleased to say that the book will be listed on all major platforms as a pre-order later this month.

The earliest photograph to feature people. The Boulevard du Temple 1838 by Louis Daguerre. Because the exposure lasted for several minutes the moving traffic in the busy street left no trace. Only a shoe polisher and his client remained in place long enough to appear on the printed image. Sam mentions this in my latest Sam Smith mystery, Damaged.

Summer 1915, C Company, The Queenā€™s Royal West Surrey Regiment, Number Nine Platoon. This picture includes my 2 x great grandfather Albert Charles Bick.

On 25 September 1915 the Royal West Surrey Regiment engaged in the Battle of Loos, which resulted in 80% British casualties, including Albert, whenā€¦

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