SITREP : It’s Far Too Complicated :o(

Saturday, 16 January 2021, 15:34.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Every single music video that I post here is connected to a REAL LIFE person that I have known/know and have loved/love. JJ is not my music. It belongs to someone loved and lost.

The Club Dumas : Arturo Pérez-Reverte.

Saturday, 16 January 2021, 14:31.Reading time 1 minute.

I was advised to read this fictional book MANY years ago as I researched mine own novel. The Club Dumas I WILL admit to missing many of the references within the book. A Study in Scarlet? Dante’s Divine Comedy? Milton’s Paradise Lost? Gone With the Wind? Moby Dick? The Hunchback of Notre Dame? I once […]

The Man in the Iron Mask

Saturday, 16 January 2021, 14:12.Reading time 3 minutes.

O Giddy Aunt. This is my favourite love to hate story. If you read the original by Dumas or the multiple “mystery solved” books or even watch the film below ….. ….No. I retract watch the film below. Apart from watching the brilliant comedies of Irons, Malkovich, Depardieu, Byrne and Hugh Laurie, this film is […]

Mil Mi-17 aka HIP aka Survival of the Fattest

Saturday, 16 January 2021, 13:33.Reading time 1 minute.

It’s amazing what knowledge you can pick up from other people. I already knew about his good (mad, bad, dangerous to know) mate, the Russian helicopter pilot who was shot down in Iraq. He flew a Hip. Survival of the Fattest? Hip? Link? The helicopter that drops the cargo in Mongolia for Clarkson, May and […]

“Come Ben” : A Short Lesson in Scottish Greetings

Saturday, 16 January 2021, 12:02.Reading time 1 minute.

What do you do if you go to the Highlands of Scotland and get greeted with “Come Ben?” Well. You say, “Thank you.” And then walk into their home. But why “ben” and not “in?” It’s all to do with the architecture of the Butt and the Ben. In Ye Olden Days, the butt was […]

Pushing the Boundaries of Historical Research

Saturday, 16 January 2021, 7:08.Reading time less than 1 minute.

When I read this along side of the many other sources that I have been researching this past year – it makes sense to me. In a weird and wonderful way :o)

Awoken vs Despair Squid

Friday, 15 January 2021, 17:45.Reading time 1 minute.

Aunty Giddy – I NEED to re-watch these. So many memories. The Grassy Knoll? BTW : Kryten is played by Robert Llewellyn. Who also played a a great one-off role in Bottom with Ade and Rik. He was the Falklands War Hero with the false leg! My personal fave in this show is the Smooth […]

POETSDAY : Poems Are Words. Words Are Feelings. Feelings Are LIFE!

Friday, 15 January 2021, 16:52.Reading time less than 1 minute.

“All This I Did Without You” I didn’t plan to do this one but it played next and I listened. Then I shared. TGIF :o)

Remembrance of Things Past

Friday, 15 January 2021, 16:29.Reading time 1 minute.

I F1RST came across Tom Hiddleston through Ken Bran’s Wallander TV series. Yum. Thought I. That’s one HANDSOME man. He also has a great schwoony kind of voice. In my humble opinion. Not QUITE KB but …Close Enough :o) For a girl without a single sweet tooth, there are somethings that I ADORE. Chocolate. And […]

I Saw the Sign & IT Opened Up MY Eyes : The V Sign

Friday, 15 January 2021, 16:09.Reading time less than 1 minute.

IT Opened Up MY Eyes.

Love Is : A 65 year old Cockney with Plastic Boobs!

Friday, 15 January 2021, 15:02.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Really? How far has TV shaped the male view of the #PerfectWoman? Aaah. Sweet. Bouncy. Big. PlasticTits! Is that ALL y’all want? To Suckle Off a bag of whatever? Gobsmacked :o(

Chance : Lost pearls of great price

Friday, 15 January 2021, 14:32.Reading time 1 minute.

Only love she seesHe controls on loveLife throws a curveEverything is possibleIn the game of lifeEverything is possible We live in the country and our house is a Never-Ending Quest/Battle against the cobwebs. I’m beginning to love the way that the men of the house do the J.Edgar Hoovering :o) It’s always a straight path […]

The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the centre of the known world, Jerusalem. Come and be my fellow Far-Farer. Come travelling and unravelling with me through Wales, Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Russia, Constantinople, Italy, the Balkans, the Holy Land. Come and Far-Fare through every degree on my 12th century compass.