“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Receipt is the olde fashionede way of saying RECIPE. I’ve done this meal TWICE this week. Why twice? Because the first time I didn’t make enough! Both times, I did it in bread tins lined with bacon but the filling was out of this world! BTW : I’m a Dijon mustard girl. BT…BTW : I […]
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Oh. I’ve had such a giggle today :o) I ALWAYS fill in the Census Form. Not because it’s demanded by LAW so much as because I’ve used the Census Records many times in my own research. This newest one is 32 pages long. I always fill it out. For the 4 of us. But the […]
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MARK Did y’all know that? 6 feet 6 inches tall and built like a brick shithouse. Sorry but. When y’all get precious and #serious. I just get that SILLY vibe :o) WELCOME TO THE BEAST
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Oh My Goodness. After more than half a lifetime of Lovejoy battles, someone sits down after work and ACTUALLY watches this show on TVFREEVIEW. I walk into the room and say – that’ll be when so and something happened. I’ve read the Lovejoy books. I’ve listened to the audiobooks read by Michael Fenton Stevens (A […]
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via IrishForeignMinistry. BARFTASTIC :o( Begorrah. All the Irish people that I’ve known and still know will be so NOT social distancing. Have y’all ever been to a Celtic Wedding or a Celtic Wake? The hugs and the kisses and the dancing and the kilts and the music and the food and the ……. ! Even […]
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From Gordon to mine! This is why I vibe with him. Shared experiences. Almost exactly. I left home 5 weeks after my 17th birthday. Being the only other female in the house, I was the one who’d pick Mum up off the floor and dress her wounds. My reward? Well. She could never beat him […]
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The earliest traces of the enlightening proverb date back to the Cherokee tribe of Native Americans, who warned: “Don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes”. Y’all would crash and die before 11 steps without social media to prop y’all up. FACT! I’m loving Martin Gore more with each passing […]
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I’ve been re-listening to the Depeche Mode songs from my stupid youth. OMG. So ALL song-writers are programmed by the Tavistock? Rewind to 1984. A pivotal year for me, personally. People are people, so why should it beYou and I should get along so awfully?People are people, so why should it beYou and I should […]
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A Word of Advice to Brit travellers in Venice. Do NOT blag a table in a restaurant that you’ve not booked, get given that table by a very nice Italian waiter, and then get into an argument with him on the night that England are playing Italy in a World Cup. You’ll get served : […]
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Around 2003 I was dead set on moving to France. I’d found us a gorgeous place to buy and had even talked to the International School at Toulouse about taking my boys. I’d put our house on the market and ….. ! My only two reservations were about losing Corinne, my gorgeous friend and hairdresser […]
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I love D. She’s been a mate for ages and she works in Tesco on a Tuesday. So I went in today hoping to see her. They treat me with a measure of tolerance in there now…being the only unmasked person who can smile at everyone as they give me a wide berth. Anyhoo. Previous […]
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I didn’t part company with him. I just had a Sarah Bernhardt tantrum about my own experience with the symbology and the reality of White Feathers. My bad :o(
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