Cyril Lucas
Author
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I’m delighted to announce the publication of my new novel: A Flash of Spanish Eyes. Witty and fun, the story is a spicy blend of romance, adventure and history set in the stunning wine country of Provence.
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recent Posts
Blogetty Blog 22: A Bright Spark – Charles Thomas Lucas
Agriculture apart, the first commercial operation in Britain may have been flint knapping. Flint, expertly split, was fashioned into the sharpest tools and weapons available before the discovery of metallurgy.…
Blogetty Blog 21: Languedoc Obverse
I have written enthusiastically about my unforgettable experience of holidays in Saint-Pons-la-Calm where we owned a house thirty years ago. As is so often the case though the Languedoc story…
Blogetty Blog 20: Languedoc Encore
Languedoc literally means the tongue of Oc – the ancient romance language of the region which is listed today as endangered. An article I read in a Smithsonian Magazine said:…
Blogetty Blog 19: Fortune’s Favourite.
My great-grandfather Charles Thomas Lucas (CTL 1820-1895) is a pivotal figure in my family’s history. For he was able to make the leap from his modest origins as the son…
Blogetty Blog 18: Life in the Languedoc.
Provence and the neighboring region of Languedoc-Roussillon in the Southf of France are renowned worldwide as a shining haven of hedonism. My wife Vicki and I fell in love with…
Blogetty Blog 17: A Primrose Path.
‘Harbinger’ is the word used to describe the sign-bearers that tell us spring is imminent. I had to look it up on Wiki for it is an uncommon word and…
Blogetty Blog 16: Times of Trouble.
Astrology, historically reputed as serious science, has largely declined in modern regard. If anyone besides Oedipus ever had reason to bewail the slings and arrows of his outrageous fortune it…
Blogetty Blog 15: A Pause for Fossils.
The snow has thawed on my deck overlooking Discovery Bay on the Pacific coast of northwest Washington State and has revealed the two fossils which ‘live’ there – if that’s…
Blogetty Blog 14: The Lucas Quakers.
In my last blog – Lucas Beginnings – I traced my Lucas family back to 1630 and introduced my direct ancestor James Lucas (1747-?) who presents something of a genealogical…
Blogetty Blog 13: Lucas Family Origins.
Do my Lucas family origins stretch all the way back to pre-Roman Italy? There is a theory that the surname Lucas originates from Lucania, a Greek colony occupying land between…
Blogetty Blog 12: On Rannoch Moor.
In order to revisit Rannoch Moor I am obliged to tell an odd anecdote about my French Teacher, Hubert Riley, who was accidentally responsible for my escape from Wellington House,…
Blogetty Blog 11: Boarding School.
“Bloggety” has assumed a patchwork quilt form devoid of chronological order so I shall resume the story of my childhood and continue with my education at boarding school. My…
Blogetty Blog 10: Visiting Ancient Turkey
My family laughs at my interest in the TV series ‘Ancient Aliens’, shown regularly on the History Channel in my area. It has national US and some European distribution. A…
Blogetty Blog 9: A Far Away Island
My family has an early connection to Oz in the person of Nathaniel Lucas, a cousin many generations removed who arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788 on the First…
Blogetty Blog 8: A Home of our Own
Kindergarten at Parkfield School in Horsham was followed by proper day-schooling across the road at Springfield Park when I was six. Surviving term reports from 1934 tell me my class…
Blogetty Blog 7: Golden Years
My father’s 21st birthday party on 19th August 1908 was a splendid occasion at Warnham Court, the estate in Sussex owned by my grandfather, most notable for the astounding array…
Blogetty Blog 6: Idyllic Days
My mother’s photo album illustrates a tradition of summer seaside holidays, starting when I was aged two in 1928 and continuing to 1931. Successively at Sandwich, Littlehampton, Westgate, Alnwick and…
Blogetty Blog 5: A Fine Romance.
This week’s episode relates the romantic details of a highly unusual love story. How many girls select their future husband at the age of seven? My Scottish maternal grandfather Colonel…
Blogetty Blog 4: Caterpillars
Blogetty Blog 4: Caterpillars The caterpillar cages were an outstanding feature of our schoolroom. They have emerged clearly as I have dredged my brain for childhood memories, Made of plain…
Blogetty Blog 3: Of Silver Bands and the Cresta Run
The entrance hall in Warnham Court, my grandfather’s house in Sussex – where I lived as a child with my parents, Geoff and Aileen, and my younger brother Rupert, as…
Blogetty Blog 2: What’s In a Name?
Soon after I was born my father decided to move his family from Warnham Court, my Grandfather’s house in Sussex, to London where he rented the house at 32 Walton…
Blogetty Blog 1: Reminiscences.
To market, to market to buy a fat hog, Home again, home again jiggety jog.English nursery rhyme by John Florio, 1958 I have somehow allowed myself to be persuaded to…