You Raise Me Up : Live from Croke Park, Dublin

Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 17:38.Reading time less than 1 minute.

What a Mistake-a To Make-a!

Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 17:14.Reading time less than 1 minute.

This, at first viewing, might be very offensive to many. BUT – I have been “accused” more than once of Speaking with MY Hands. And I’ve spent many a happy time watching real Italians and the way they greet friends and family. Go Figure (?) This is a #parody, made with love, of the French, […]

Il Monte Grampio

Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 16:53.Reading time 1 minute.

OK. I might have some Italian DNA but beyond being polite and asking for food and drink, that’s the extent of my language skills. I understand the gist of this passage but had to look up a few words with the limited resources at my disposal. TRAMONTANA – All I could find was Northern Wind. […]

Places We Go

Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 15:47.Reading time 1 minute.

I was taught this a very long time ago and it was reinforced by a beautiful friend who once told me that whatever/wherever/whomever I write about has a connection to me. Where we “travel” is NEVER an accident! I was once given the chance to go through Past-Life Regression by a hypnotherapist. I declined. Through […]

RED DWARF

Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 14:52.Reading time 1 minute.

This was/is in my eldest’s Top 5 Comedy series EVER! I watched every episode of the first 3 series too and loved it because it is right up there with the very best of BIZARRE, totally inexplicable Brit humour. I have fond memories of Lister, Rimmer, Kryton, Holly and Cat and their own surreal brand […]

Camera Obscura

Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 14:15.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I know this subject has been yt-M.O.C. covered ad infinitum but…did y’all get your info from here? ‘S OK. I don’t expect a single Honest True Answer from anyone. Learned that Lesson the HARD way :o(

Glued. Screwed. Plastered Over!

Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 13:40.Reading time less than 1 minute.

And STILL, a MAXVOL passive/aggressive Silence that says everything. Not ONE single question answered. Not ONE single truth spoken. Not ONE single climb down off that High AS Horse. I called it over a year ago. But all I got was public humiliation and my whole world destroyed, piece by narc piece…….. every single day, […]

Terror By Night

Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 13:26.Reading time 1 minute.

Despite the modern MS History “stories” (!) It took a long time to get rid of….sorry….modernise British Rail. Dr Beeching and his pals in government may have won in the end but, there were certain routes that survived the Brave New BR plan. Namely the route from King’s Cross that goes all the way from […]

Euston : Arch Enemies

Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 13:07.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Old Snooze but where you have an Arch, there’s usually an Enemy right behind wanting to pull you….it down (?)

Moravia

Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 12:32.Reading time 1 minute.

What month are we in? It feels like November and my birthday! Presents galore. What I’m loving (as well as the wonderful gifts) is the fact that they come with just a tiny clue or two. And I’m being trusted to do the research myself and make up my own mind. OK. I might’ve got […]

Penn, Teller, Tim & Vermeer

Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 10:14.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Nope. I would never have put those names together either! The things you learn when you wax lyrical about Caravaggio’s painting techniques (!?) Mother. Just go on youtube right now and watch Penn & Teller : Tim’s Vermeer. You’ll love it. OkeyDokey.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610)

Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 9:12.Reading time 2 minutes.

Realist revolutionary: The painter who brought the heavenly down to earth Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was always a name to be reckoned with.Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: Violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the […]

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