Windmills of Your Mind

Friday, 15 November 2019, 13:13.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE singeth.

The Reason (One of them) Why I DESPISE…

Friday, 15 November 2019, 12:57.Reading time less than 1 minute.

…! &…! Well. Nuff said :o( If you don’t GET IT – you don’t GET IT!

Gaius Octavius

Friday, 15 November 2019, 9:12.Reading time 1 minute.

Wiki : Augustus Bloody Romans. What did they ever do for us? From SparkNotes : Octavius Caesar Ocatavius Caesar is both a menacing adversary for Antony and a rigid representation of Roman law and order. He is not a two-dimensional villain, though, since his frustrations with the ever-neglectful Antony seem justified. When he complains […]

In the Dark About The Dark Ages?

Friday, 15 November 2019, 5:27.Reading time 2 minutes.

A nice, concise explanation from NC : Let’s skip the indefinite period up to the IXth century. After this, begins a new chapter in the history of China allegedly from 860 to the year 960 AD. That is approximately 100 years of darkness. L.N. Gumilev calls it “the dark age” and builds some geophysical […]

Basil

Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 17:14.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Having a Basil day today. Meggie’s brother was called Basil. We’ve a Bassett in the family called Basil. Love Basil Fawlty. Then there is Jordan Tabov’s article about Basil And – THE Sherlock. Basil Rathbone in my Go To Holmes movie whenever things get blah! House of Fear. Scary Wary Woo

Sacha Baron Cohen

Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 16:23.Reading time less than 1 minute.

True story here! There was I being the Guv in th’office. Doing Serious Big Boss Business things. My PA runs in. OMG. OMG. Just had a phone call from my brother. He’s in a pub in Grimsby talking to Sacha Baron Cohen. God’s Honest :o) I don’t really like a lot of his work but […]

Nothing Really Matters To Me

Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 16:06.Reading time less than 1 minute.

There was (were ?) me, myself & I thinking that the music had died :o( But, then, like, in came faultless Freddie. :o)

Hanged, Dissed and Slaughtered

Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 14:24.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Is what I’ll be – like – if one brother-in-law and one sister-in-law ever see this. Both ex-RAF. And me living so close to the luxurious wartime home of the Dambusters. I am shamelessly blingless. Like :o(

The Gentle Art

Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 11:59.Reading time 1 minute.

I was given this book as a gift. It’s a bit tatty now yet still loved. It’s the kind of thing a pathetic, worthless HOUSEWIFE enjoys. Jane Brocket delights in domesticity. Lively, curious and creative, she takes inspiration from her surroundings, from art, literature and nature and, through the gentle arts of knitting, baking […]

Fire from Heaven

Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 11:09.Reading time 1 minute.

Mary Renault is a fine writer. I’ve loved her books. My sadness, now, is that I can no longer read them with the same joy and excitement :o( In the first novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created […]

Very Important Historical Point

Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 10:23.Reading time 3 minutes.

NC (in the excerpt below) makes this V.I.H.P. Basically – the damage had Already been done before they decided to play jiggery pokery with Chinese history. It makes sense to me :o) The landmarks of the parallelism between the Chinese and the phantom European history before the X century A. D. We haven’t […]

St Mark’s

Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 6:36.Reading time less than 1 minute.

OK. I’ll stop complaining about the huge puddles in my garden!

The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the centre of the known world, Jerusalem. Come and be my fellow Far-Farer. Come travelling and unravelling with me through Wales, Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Russia, Constantinople, Italy, the Balkans, the Holy Land. Come and Far-Fare through every degree on my 12th century compass.