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Yesterday I wandered into a new plan for a change.  I am now looking at some writing about Kate W Aimson, the original discoverer of Fleams.  I am working in the area of short story - novelet for length.  Or maybe just short story.  We will see.  The vintage horror magazines (see post Badgers, Books and The Curse of Amen-Ra) are an inspirational example of short-story writing, and I am working my way through them.

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Casual visitors to this blog are perhaps unaware of how I came to be interested in the work of Kate W Aimson, the story is this.  When we moved into our current house six years ago, one of the first houses ready on a new estate at Ladmanlow, Derbyshire; we found a collection of papers in the loft.  Of a new-built house.  It's very mysterious.  The papers dated back to the years before the First World War, about a hundred years ago.  At this time Mrs Aimson was travelling in this area on research expeditions to the woad-vats of the East Midlands.  She was distracted from her research by some fascinating discoveries here in North Derbyshire...