“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.”
You never know what people are saying behind your back. This is a true statement. Unfortunately, more often than not, it will be something horrible. But once in a while…! The homemade cake above was hand-delivered to me this morning with a message. I know you had a crappy birthday ‘cos the boys were on […]
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In honour of St Andrew, this post is about the Fiery Cross that the Scots used to light to call in the clans. A little bit obvious, you say? Running around the mountains with that lighting the way! Yes. But they also had other ways. The image above is a watermark showing The Fiery Cross. […]
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The History of Watermarks in Paper is a long one. It’s fascinating and little known about outside of Academia. The process of watermarking paper reached expert levels as far back as the 12th and 13th centuries – mainly in the South of France where the Cathars and Huguenots had to hide their heretical religious leanings. […]
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Why did this just show up in my feed? Go figure. I watched the filum about 1,000 years ago and all I remember about it is the music! A Scandinavian Version followed by the final scene. Shrug. Make MY Day, Punk. Oh. Confused is me?
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aka The past two years of MY life. Sowing seeds on BARREN land. What a waste of time it has been. SMH. Waste of Time. A total killer :o( Jeremy Irons has one of those voices that’ll raise goosebumps. Well. For me, anyhoo. T.S. Eliot.
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You’ve got to have a small amount of sympathy for those/they/them who’ll take anything and EVERYTHING that has been given to them free of charge and Unconditionally and will use it – not to thank you for the gift – to BIG THEMSELVES UP. In the UK we call peeps like that PRECIOUS aka Entitled. […]
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If you’ve never watched Top Gear with Clarkson, May and Hammond – you’ll have no idea who STIG is. He is the quintessential Mystery Man! At around 2:07 mins in this video I recognised a song. Marie Fredriksson vocals are unmistakable. Where to go with this one? OK. A 3fer P.S. WE ALL love Sandwich […]
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I’ve never been to Prague – but I’d love to. I can’t Tango – but I’d love to. I was forced to watch porn (against my will and by wicked means) when the “boys” in the platoon invited me out one night for a drink down the Ku’damm in Berlin. It’s still a Looooong standing […]
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Fludd (1574-1637) is on MY List. Over 20 years ago he was presented to me as a teacher and influencer of Claude de Lorraine, Duc de Chevreuse Make the links with that one yourselves ? Don’t y’all just love it when multiple paths open up and multiple timelines converge? Shakespeare’s quote is in Agatha Christie’s […]
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And his swanky new AL -YOU -MIN -EEE- UM Defender ! Our smelly, many years old, rickety, but GLORIOUS Defender (R.I.P.) was a laugh a minute. Especially when you hit 50mph. We used to take Tsar Dog on “walks” in it too. Well, we’d drive him around the local countryside for an hour or so. […]
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I’m still totally freaked out by this… Nope : My BAD : I FAILED AGAIN Posted not even 24 hours ago. And we wake up to the news this morning that David Prowse is no longer here :o( If you grew up in the UK, you’ll remember him (maybe better) as The GREEN CROSS CODE […]
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January 2019 : Tartary – A Modern Hijack Ain’t it grand to be ignored….NOT! Every single person is now an HEXPERT on Tartary. P.S. If y’all EVER see that word in a yt vid or as a FAF yt chan name/commenter………RUN AWAY. Puhlease. For the love of True Truth. I beg you. Please ? Case […]
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