The Black Mule of Aveluy
A year or so ago, Ben and I were perusing the shops in Brighton when I found a selection of elderly books. I collect antiquarian tomes, and although none of
A year or so ago, Ben and I were perusing the shops in Brighton when I found a selection of elderly books. I collect antiquarian tomes, and although none of
One of my favourite past-times involves combining my love of mules and history, and going in search of the role played by the humble longear in centuries gone by. For
A couple of weeks ago, a half-assed doodle (in every sense of the word) that I made 15 months ago inexplicably went semi-viral and brought a lot of new people
A couple of months ago, a friend of mine shared some photos that she had taken during a visit to the British Museum in London. A large stone relief in
I recently stumbled across a collection of essays entitled “Frontier Army Life”, by James Steele. His chapter on army mules is hysterically funny. It seems to me as though Steele
Continue readingMy Top Ten Quotes from Frontier Army Sketches
Back in 2016, I came across a poem called “Absence, or a record of the creation of a fabulous animal” by Gisela Kraft. Towards the end are two lines which
1. Mules are intelligent, not stubborn. Ah yes, the big one! Mules have unfairly earned the description of “stubborn” due to their high intelligence and strong sense of self-preservation. If a
It’s fright night! I bet you thought I couldn’t combine Hallowe’en and mules, but it turns out that there are several mule-related monsters to be found around the world –
Followers of the Mulography Facebook page may well have seen me mention Buttons once or twice (ha). Medieval games and mounted combat are precisely the kind of thing I dreamed of doing when I
In Ostia, an ancient harbour city situated around 20 miles South West of Rome, there are the remains of a 1st century bath-house known as the Baths of the Cisiarii.