Narrelle M Harris: writer | editor | songwriter | crafter
Words are like oxygen
After the full-on days of Comic Con in San Diego, I was able to pull back a little on the running around and spent some time chilling out in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and some smaller towns nearby. Santa Barbara The Pacific Surfliner train from San Diego passed through LA and on to the sunny shores of Santa Barbara, […]
» Read moreThe annual San Diego Comic Con is said to play host to over 130,000 attendees. In 2016, I was one of them. (As proof I offer this picture, wearing the ‘We’re Werewolves not Swear Wolves’ T-shirt – a line from What We Do in the Shadows – which I picked up from Steam Crow). For those wondering how I scored […]
» Read moreTucked away on West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, in an area called Echo Park, is a very special little shop. Time travellers, whether planning to visit the distant past or the distant future – or to bounce around between the two – will find anything they need at the Time Travel Mart. Era-appropriate facial hair; jars of nanobots; barbarian repellent; […]
» Read moreWhen we were planning this trip to Los Angeles, my husband, who knows me well, said ‘Esotouric does great crime tours; they’ve got one on the Black Dahlia murder. Do you want to write about that?’ My response was a red hot YES! For those unfamiliar with the case, the Black Dahlia was the nickname of Elizabeth Short, a beautiful, […]
» Read moreHere I am, travelling once more and taking in the atmosphere with eyes and brain wide, ready to learn new things. This is my second trip to the United States, my first to Los Angeles, and as always I’m finding a place to be both exactly like and nothing like I expected it to be. The inherent contradiction in that […]
» Read moreStratford Upon Avon. Birthplace of the Bard. The village where William Shakespeare’s relatively humble origins lead some to believe (rather snobbily, I think) that a fellow with a fairly ordinary education could not possibly have written plays which still resonated with audiences 400 years later (as though all, or even the best, education happens in schoolrooms). After several trips to […]
» Read moreBury St Edmunds is a lovely little market town in Suffolk. Well, that’s one thing it is. It’s also a lot of other things. It’s the place where an Anglo Saxon hamlet stood, and where a monastery was established, and where, in the early 10th century, the remains of Edmund, King of East Anglia (martyred and sainted in the 9th […]
» Read moreOne of the great joys for me being in London is not checking off things from a ‘must-do, must-see’ list: it’s simply wandering around the streets of this great city, preferably in the company of good friends who love this place as much as I do. Yesterday was one such joyful day. London gave us one of it’s warm, sunny […]
» Read moreWhen I was a kid and my brothers and I were pestering Mum about what was for tea, she used to tell us: “Stewed bugs and onions!” to annoy us in turn. Today in London, the bugs may not have been stewed, and came with ice cream instead of onions, but the fact remains. I ate bugs today. To be […]
» Read moreDuring my recent travels, I was lucky enough to see Martin Freeman in the title role of Richard III at the Trafalgar Studios in London. Of course, while Freeman was a major draw for me (I’m a sucker for a Watson), I’m always up for a spot of Shakespeare, particularly with plays I’m not as familiar with. I’m sure I’ve […]
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