“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.”
I was watching this and the name Nellie Bly kept bugging me. Then I had an AHA! moment. Of course. Tut! By The Pricking of my Thumbs : Agatha Christie. There’s a character called Nellie Bligh. This Nellie in the video below was either Very Brave or Extremely Crazy (?!)
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The cable coat is just about finished. Woohoo. Yes. Well, spotted. It’s a different colour. I was half way through the first one when I realised that I didn’t have enough wool to finish so – I started again. And I’m kind of thrilled. I thought it would take until November to knit one coat, […]
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There are far too many people still riding my back and using MY work to make themselves look # good. They….IT…needs to take a leaf out of Reggie Perrin’s book and just DISA- fecking- PPEAR. That’s all I ask for. Peace and quiet. PUHLEASE? Go away and STOP the Rape and yt Fakery??? IT IS […]
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Where did this come from? Oh. That’ll be the creepy crawly ants in my house triggering a memory :o) “Do us all a favour“ P.S. I once (in my sternest Mother voice!) asked my 5 year old son if he had ants in his pants. Quick as a flash he replied : Yeah. And fleas […]
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Oh. That’ll be NONE! Although I have sort of studied Screen Writing. But…I will NEVER be able to get close to the Master “The Play What I Wrote” playwright. ERNIE WISE :o(
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BRITISH : a pompous, reactionary type of person. Nuff said!
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Hell’s Bell’s and Buckets of Fire, peeps. IT has ALWAYS been here. Right in front of your blind and sleepy eyes! Dooooooofus’s’s’s’s Sorry. Moriarty vibe took me over there :o(
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Throughout my teenage years – well from 10 to 17 – I lived with a poster on the back of the bathroom door. It was similar to the image above but had only two words on it… …OH, SHIT My father had a strange sense of humour :o) Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!Alas! […]
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Strange but true! Did y’all know that Clara Miller was not only an Irish “Seer” but she named her third child Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller? Agatha Miller married, then was divorced by, Archibald Christie who preferred his fancy-pants mistress, Nancy Neele. Clara home-schooled Agatha and nurtured her daughter’s love of literature. And from there – […]
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In the early years of the 20th century the phrase, See you, Oscar, was Glaswegian Slang. It meant – See you, Oscar Slater/See you later. There are many reasons why I love Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle. George Edalji was not the only Real Life person whom Conan Doyle saved. There was also Oscar […]
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The places I come across in my research are far-flung and wondrous and very intriguing :o) How about this…? Felsenkirch Which is here…. A Secret Location in Europe !
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OM Good Grief. Like I need to be side-tracked any more. Tut! This “case” has been on my mind for days and I’ve only done the most basic of research. The “friend” who left Netta to fend for herself was Dion Fortune. I’m disliking the “occult” references/innuendos – deeply. To my (strange!) mind, Netta was […]
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