How Does Your Garden Grow?

Silver Bells. Cockle Shells. I love this episode of Poirot for several (Russian??) reasons. Unfortunately yt will only show the crappy crap below. M’eh I even have an original 1935 magazine that premiered this Agatha Christie short story. OCD? Moi?

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CURTAIN

For me, this has always been the MOST bittersweet of Agatha Christie’s novels. If you know the book, you’ll understand the bitter part. The sweet part – in my humble opinion – is the fact that one of the characters is based on Shakespeare’s Iago from Othello. Yes – Iago. The character that I love […]

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Blood Diamond

OK. Whatev’s. My stats tell me that I’m being mined for info from/in long ago posted posts. A bit like…. Which is soooooo similar to Agatha Christie’s book – Hercule Poirot’s Christmas. Which just happens to be on of MY fave AC books and one of MY fave DS Poirot’s episodes (which – no surprise […]

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Adoration of the Mystic Lamb

I’ve known a little bit about this work of art for many years. It was always a bit of a mystery to me. But, just one of those crazy things that keeps happening. Stolen from over and over again. Restored. Mis-represented. Painted over. Back is front. Front is back etc. And ALL of Europe seems […]

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Sing a Song of Sixpence

Agatha Christie was Brilliant at using Nursery Rhymes in her stories. A Pocket Full of Rye is good. Four and Twenty Blackbirds too. Sing a song of sixpence,A pocket full of rye,Four and twenty blackbirdsBaked in a pie. When the pie was openedThe birds began to sing—Wasn’t that a dainty dishTo set before the king? […]

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A Lifetime of Myth and Legend Fascination

WOW! Never, EVER did I even begin to imagine that MY lifetime fascination with M&L would lead to this moment in time when I have FULL, Documented EVIDENCE of an attempted murder! WTF is going on, Miss Marple?

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Cards on the Table – Agatha Christie

In the UK Trump means Bottom Burp !   Trump : Verb. To break wind from the anus, to ‘fart’. E.g.”There’s a disgusting smell in here. Has someone trumped?” Noun. 1. An act of breaking wind. 2)The resulting smell of having broke wind from the anus, a ‘fart’. Maybe this is why I’ve NEVER learned to […]

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Death on the Nile 2020

DEVASTATED :o( Not even Ken Bran and Jen Saunders can save this for me. RUSSELL BRAND???? A despicable excuse for a …….STFU, GB ! P.S. That’ll be EVERY single thing that I have treasured my whole life totally corrupted by money/fame/fortune. Ken & Jen – WHY?

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WHO are THE BIG FOUR?

Take this or leave this. I DON’T Care Watch Mr SitA. Dean K, me’h. It was done way before him!     Then go back to the 1920’s and read Agatha Christie. The BIG Four.   Wiki : The Big 4   Or watch my mates on TV. A bit of a travesty of the […]

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