“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.”
IRK : Irritate; annoy.”it irks her to think of the runaround she received” RUNAROUND : deceitful or evasive treatment. BTW : The rose on the left is Paul’s Himalayan Musk…up to the gutters now. The rose on the right is Rambling Rector entwined with honeysuckle and they’re both trying to get into the front door. […]
Read More
My Grandad, Sam, was a tanner by trade. I have dyed wool and cotton using natural materials (tea, coffee, nettles, onion skins, walnuts, ink etc) after researching the history of dyeing right back to the Egyptians of one hundred thousand B.C. (!) Both trades used urine. Poop is dung is manure is compost. Our old […]
Read More
The arena is used as a venue for many concerts. Performances have included ones by; Foo Fighters, Luciano Pavarotti, Đorđe Balašević, Plácido Domingo, Andrea Bocelli, Patrizio Buanne, Jose Carreras, Dino Merlin, Jamiroquai, Anastacia, Eros Ramazzotti, Maksim Mrvica, Norah Jones, Zucchero, Zdravko Čolić, Alanis Morissette, Sinéad O’Connor, Elton John, 2Cellos, Sting, Michael Bolton, Seal, Il Divo, Tom Jones, Gibonni, Manu Chao, Oliver Dragojević, Leonard Cohen, Grace Jones, Moderat, David Gilmour, and Frank Zivkovic. It has a capacity of about 5000 spectators, and also hosts operas, ballets, sports […]
Read More
What is the connection? Read M.C. Beaton’s Blood of an Englishman. Watch Sweeney Todd. Read/watch Titus Andronicus (Andronicus Comnenus?) For the flaky filum fans …
Read More
Mmmn. Not a fave of mine even though we did this for my EngLit exam. I prefer the HISTORY behind Chaucer. He married a girl called Philippa de Roet, who had a sister called Katherine, who had a lover called John of Gaunt, who was a patron of Geoffrey Chaucer and the third son of […]
Read More
OK. I’m a baby. I cried. Lavinia : GB 4th of June 2019 Lavinia – The only daughter of Titus Andronicus, she spurns Saturninus’s offer to make her his empress because she is in love with Bassianus. She is brutally raped and disfigured by Chiron and Demetrius in the forest during the hunt. Thereafter, she is […]
Read More
Simon had four cats – like me – each with his/her own personality. This reminds me of DeeDee. Black as the Ace of Spades and rescued from a farm stable. Even then she’d sit with her back to me when miffed…taking a sneaky peek over her shoulder to make sure that you knew that she […]
Read More
Super Full Strawberry Moon (?) All I know…..NOT being an astrologer…is that this is the time for certain people to grow up and taste the strawberries. Or get the silver bullet. Your choice :o)
Read More
This is what the yt TRUTHER commenter community has fallen to. I’m having such a laugh now that I’m their fave REJECT :o)
Read More
I met Charlie Drake in Skegness. Well. We walked past each other and I smiled at him. He smiled at me. Sherlock. BOOMer Ang Death. Whodunnit?
Read More
Been here. Done this. GB 24th Feb 2020 : I Write the Songs AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, MUSIC I Write The Songs Monday, 24 February 2020, 16:55 When I lived in Berlin, the girl I shared a room with finagled me into a Barry Manilow concert in the American Sector. She had two tickets and […]
Read More
This is EXACTLY how Martin F|E|B treats people like ME. He also told a recently widowed female commenter to “go back to her ironing” when she challenged him. Some peeps CANNOT EVER COPE with those who don’t kiss their arses and tell them how wonderful they are. P.S. I’ve 100’s and 100’s of screenshots providing […]
Read More
Hidden History Research 