“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.”
The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and reflects Christie’s experiences travelling in the Middle East with her husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. The main settings are Jerusalem and Petra. As always – and this is no criticism (from a HistFic writer that’d be hypocritical) – this episode strays somewhat from the original book which portrays Lady Boynton as PURE EVIL […]
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D’y’all know this song? Maybe not. It’s a “traditional” UK song called A Mother’s Lament. David sings it at the end of Taken at the Flood. See below. Your Baby Has Gone Down the Plughole(A Mother’s Lament) Traditional Song A mother was bathing her baby one nightThe youngest of ten and a delicate miteThe mother […]
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This place is FAMOUS. Just outside London. QOC just triggered me. In a good way. At around 17:40 in the video that I just shared Wikidped says that parts of The Shining were filmed at EMI-Elstree. Uuurm the same place that Space Odyssey was filmed? And about a 1,000 other famous films. ELSTREE STUDIOS This […]
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The original book had a different title. That was the book that I read and what I know it as. U N Owen was just one person against several in the book. One person executing man’s justice for their sins. Today there are several people executing man’s justice against one person who is fighting for […]
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Read the book…best. Watch the programme…love it :o) For the lazy WikiTribe : Multi-millionaire Simeon Lee, frail in his old age, unexpectedly invites his family to gather at his home for Christmas. The gesture is met with suspicion by the guests. Simeon is not given to warm family sentiment, and the family are not on good […]
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OMG. I missed the Tennyson bit? And he is my homie. Bad. Head Hung/Hanged in SHAME :o( From the Guardian Newspaper : We have recently pointed you at a graphic novel about the history of puzzles and at the first novel by Guardian setter Picaroon, each of which remains heavily recommended. Time for a peek at a golden-age […]
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BTW, sweet reviewer below…Poirot is BELGIAN not French. FACT. And he’s always very annoyed when he’s called French. P.S. The image above is a quote from Death on the Nile. For ME, David Suchet IS Poirot.
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This is so far removed from the original book. But – whatever – it’s still a wonderful TV story. Claude Darrell, known as the Destroyer. He is an obscure English actor and a master of disguise. He is the chief assassin of the group. He appears with ever-changing faces and multiple identities throughout the novel. He can […]
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When we can see ourselves as just a PLAYER in this game… we are talking objectively ?
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About a thousand years ago I had a website selling my hand-crocheted handbags. The above was my tagline. From the poem below. POETS DAY? I still have well over 100 handmade handbags here. Never sold a single one on t’internet. GAVE away, free gratis and for nothing, more than a few to family members :o( […]
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Dinosaurs like me grew up with these old Nursery Rhymes. Agatha Christie used many of them in her book titles. See below. BUT : The line – 5, 6, pick up sticks is monumental to me. Why? Because when you find out the date that 5 turned into 6 and 6 turned into 5 … […]
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If you know the Agatha Christie canon, you will know this book. I read it with the original title. Image above. AND – when I was a very young child, this rhyme was a regular playground game. We knew it off by heart. Back in the day. When we were innocent. I loved playing that […]
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