Leek & Potato Soup & a Damn Good Cry!

Monday, 5 October 2020, 10:31.Reading time 2 minutes.

I was up and at ’em early this morning. First task – Post Office. The queue stretched half way across the Market Square and around the corner. Every one at least 4 metres apart and masked. We’d all have fitted in the Post Office on a normal day! The girl in front of me had […]

Retraction Action

Saturday, 3 October 2020, 17:40.Reading time 2 minutes.

Retraction 1.the action of drawing something back or back in….”prey are grasped between the jaws upon tongue retraction” 2.a withdrawal of a statement, accusation, or undertaking….”he issued a retraction of his allegations” Just HOW LONG will y’all make me wait for the Public RETRACTION of the #accusations that y’all have PUBLICLY made AGAINST ME ? […]

Dorothy Dunnett vs Ian Fleming

Saturday, 3 October 2020, 16:22.Reading time 2 minutes.

OK. Been there. Done this. DD and IF were good friends. Both wrote a series of books with an Anti-Hero. Lymond and James Bond Both of their heroes were #Cold #Unemotional #DidTheirDuty #SurvivedEVERYTHING. But…BUT. DD wrote Lymond through some of the very worst things that can happen to a man. And ended the series with […]

August 2018 : Shadow Self

Saturday, 3 October 2020, 15:05.Reading time 1 minute.

Within a few days of opening this website I wrote three (off-the-cuff, from the heart) articles about writing HisFic. GB 4th Aug 2018 : HISTORICAL FICTION: RESEARCH & WRITING – EPISODE 1 GB 5th Aug 2018 : HISTORICAL FICTION: RESEARCH & WRITING – EPISODE 2 And then – to compound this truthful GB atrocity – […]

Analysing Lady Macbeth

Saturday, 3 October 2020, 13:46.Reading time 2 minutes.

Today – Lady M would be labelled a DISTORTED FEMININE. A woman who ruthlessly seeks HER wants and needs through her famous spouse. She ridicules him. Manipulates him so much that he comes to a crucial point in his life when the ONLY thing he can do to appease her malicious and baleful nature, is […]

The FALL of MAN

Thursday, 1 October 2020, 17:38.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Please – correct me if I’m wrong. And I could very well be because I’m not a Biblical Scholar but…Wasn’t The Fall of Man blamed on Eve? The Fall of Man ORIGINAL SIN and all that jazz. Oooooh. Who’s Sorry Now ?

JUST GIMME A BREAK!

Thursday, 1 October 2020, 14:30.Reading time less than 1 minute.

From the yt BS. PUHLEASE, God. Please. Channels that I Did NOT want to promote……..I’ve just shared. FFS. Shit. Leave ME ALONE.

No Blame. No Shame : I FELL for IT Too!

Wednesday, 30 September 2020, 15:25.Reading time less than 1 minute.

M’eh. Pretty package. NOTHING inside :o(

Radio Call : ENDEX

Wednesday, 30 September 2020, 14:19.Reading time 1 minute.

Endex is Military code for End of Exercise. My fave Radio Call! When I served in Berlin, the powers that be (?) would often call a Rocking Horse. See image above. They didn’t give a crap about us “feet on the ground” when the Fricking alarm sounded….at any of the 24 hour clock. I remember […]

THE Master Manipulator

Wednesday, 30 September 2020, 12:51.Reading time 2 minutes.

She’s good. Very good at her Devilish Mission. She threatens and cajoles and love bombs and bans and insults and gets rid of and cat-fishes and lies and hides and destroys and manipulates and weaves such a web of deceit that few can ever see beyond the truth. A bit like Nikki : NIKKI THYTHLODAY. […]

I Can Feel IT Coming in the Air Tonight, oh Lord #Karma

Monday, 28 September 2020, 16:41.Reading time less than 1 minute.

What goes around, comes around. Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion : ‘every action has an equal and opposite reaction’

May I Present : The WORST Mistake I EVER Made ?

Monday, 28 September 2020, 15:26.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Nothing Compares to U Wow! The beginning of my end was THAT comment :o(

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