“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.”
I am not a fan of the Tube. Never have been. Nor the Métro. Both of which I have travelled on. But this video has been on my mind for a while and a re-watch has reminded me of a weird theory (?!) that I have. If you watch this/and if you’ve ever been on […]
This is a beautiful song sung by one of my favourite voices. I understand the spirit behind the fundraising but – all lives matter, surely? Yes? No? #BlackLivesMatter A Change Is Gonna Come Total raised: $2,357 Boyce Avenue, organizer We are donating all of the proceeds from this song and video to My Brother’s Keeper […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about pretty, witty Nell and the Historical Timeline. I come from my research into the generation before. Charles I Stuart, Henriette Marie etc. 1660 and the Restoration of the Monarchy in UK via the eldest son of the two above named. Cardinal Richelieu had it written in their marriage contract […]
The emails that I’ve received recently asking for the “secret” password for something that is NOT secretly password protected have made me LOL even louder than I LOLed at this CLASSIC :o) P.S. MSM said that Spike Milligan blew the raspberries. In FACT it was David Jason !
And they called Sarah Bernhardt melodramatic. Pish :o) We inherited several of the original Victorian Cast Iron gutters with the house. They were a little rusty and no good as gutters and abandoned in the garden. I’ve lost count of the times that “workmen” have offered to take them away for free (!!??) I’m using […]
Hey. I can get away with this. Tomorrow is Sunday, yes? Wiki : Roman de la Rose This is a fancypants Frenchified early version of many books like the much more dour John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. It even pre-dates the great Chaucer tales (!?) And yes. I have the book. I’ve read the book. I […]
That up there in the title is the Latin name for Giant Hogweed. The image is a photo of MY garden and just how BIG this weed grows. (It’s the one with white flowers now taller than the first floor roof of the stable. How do I know this Latin name? Via La Belle Dame […]