Jane and OSG and I…on the littlest dinner cruise boat, the Osprey, in a 40 mph gale with blowing dust. But we love the upper deck…so there we sat, having dinner (the boat was near the hilly shore at that point, which, gave us enough calm to keep the plates on the boat.
We took a lot of good photos. A few not so good (person with no head because of pitch and roll). And then my new camera broke. But it’s under warranty. So…that’ll get handled.
I love being out in weather, with no lightning to worry about. This was a dry blow, so we were fine to be out there.
And because the dinner is salmon and beef with ample salad, I could keep to my diet. Jane had a little cheesecake, and OSG, well, I think OSG had cheesecake, too. But mostly we had a really good time.
You requested historical novelists or novels, and I’d suggest Lawrence Schoonover’s The Burnished Blade, The Spider King, The Gentle Infidel, The Chancellor, The Queen’s Cross; Thomas B. Costain’s Below The Salt, The Black Rose, The Tontine, The Moneyman, For My Great Folly; Samuel Shellabarger’s Captain from Castille, Prince of Foxes (my favorite of his books)or Lord Vanity. Newer authors could include P. C. Doherty’s histories and historical novels, P. F. Chisholm’s English border lands novels, starting with A Famine of Horses, Steven Saylor’s Roman mysteries and Anya Seton’s “Katherine.” I’ve heard argument on her historical facts regarding the background of Katherine herself but for incredibly detailed research of nearly every facet of life in the England of Edward III and Richard II, I don’t believe you’d find anything better.
Those are good ones.