“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.”
A Thread of Red and Gold A poem. She came to us in Autumn A world of Red and Gold A land already dying A life forever Old She grew up in the Winter Horizons Light and Cold Waiting, always Watching Bought but never Sold She left us in the Springtime Shook off our stranglehold […]
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Alanis has been vilified for many years about this song. Smart Arses say that she has No Idea about Irony, what it means and how it works. I feel that she knew EXACTLY was she was saying when she wrote this song :o) The irony is that I thought we could help each other. Always […]
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If there is just ONE person whom I NEED right now. Today. This moment. It’s Leslie. I’ve kept most of her voicemails to me. This is the F1RST time that I’ve listened to her since ….! Help?
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At 3 am this morning, I sat with my finger on the trigger…aka the DELETE WHOLE WEBSITE BUTTON. This week has been slightly, uurmm, traumatic (?) But a little voice inside said – What? And lose years of work? For why? For who? I couldn’t answer that one. With ONE view in the past 10 […]
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Crying your eyes out is NOT a good look to carry :o( I’d’ve never chosen to watch this film but last year we had Netflix fans staying and I gave one of them full control of the Telly Box. WE HAD to watch this film. I’ll never watch it again. For me it is the […]
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I’ve known about this instrument for Years but…I’m suddenly obsessed by it. Go figure ! P.S. I HATE Physics but LOVE Music :o)
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I might’ve given away my total admiration for Cate Tate – once or twice (?) I also love Shelia Hancock aka Mrs John Thaw (Inspector Morse) Put the pair of them together as Nan Taylor and her Crazy Sister from Spain and you get a Genius Female Classic Comedy Cockney Couple :o) Signed….Yackie
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Yes. I know. He wasn’t even fashionable when he was at the height of his career. Maybe that’s why that little imp in me chose him as MY champion in the Lower 6th Common Room Battle of the Musicians. I still, to this day, have a great fondness for his music. And – Deepest of […]
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A short lesson in languages and history and timelines. I called my both my Grandmothers NAN. In Italian she is Nonna. You can use Nanny, Granny, Nanna etc There is a Welsh Female Saint called Saint Non/Nun. From Pembrokeshire. She was the mother of Saint David – patron saint of Wales. She was raped and […]
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Oh My Lord. Something just started playing on the big TV and I went……Can this day get any worse? Oh. Yes. Another public STFU video has been posted by someone who has just re-christened me Yackie. OK. Sheesh. Just twist that knife. I’ve not been tortured enough yet :o(
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Sometimes the GREATEST Pain brings about the GREATEST brilliance. I’m familiar with the story of Richard Dadd. A truly tortured Artist (!) And we all know Freddie :o) He, Freddie (and this blows my fricking mind) was also familiar with Richard Dadd and his most famous of all paintings – The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke. Two […]
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