Tough Love

Thursday, 7 November 2019, 12:54.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For some children, a simple smack would feel like a loving hug does to other children. Great things are happening out there :o)

Scientists Now Claim…

Thursday, 7 November 2019, 12:35.Reading time 1 minute.

The notion that houseplants can meaningfully improve indoor air quality is ‘simply a myth’, a new study has found — with potted plants being practically as useful. ‘This has been a common misconception for some time,’ said paper author and environmental engineer Michael Waring of the Drexel University in Philadelphia. I saw this on BBC news […]

Marina Warner

Thursday, 7 November 2019, 12:03.Reading time 4 minutes.

Two for the price of one I’ve read Marina Warner for a long time. These two books of hers are sort of special to me. BTW – Usual usual, I don’t agree with the mainstream history stuff but that does Not take away from her work. This unique study of the cult of the […]

Perseus

Thursday, 7 November 2019, 10:43.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The Doom Fulfilled, 1888, Southampton City Art Gallery, part of a series of paintings revolving around Perseus, created by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones Back to where I started this morning. With Perseus. I’ve been thinking about him quite a bit over the past few days. If you know the myth then this will make sense. Use the highly […]

It’s Official!

Thursday, 7 November 2019, 9:41.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Despite Everything that Everyone has told me my Whole Life… …I am NOT the only Weirdo in the world. Wooohoooo! What a relief :o)

Tenochtitlan

Thursday, 7 November 2019, 7:21.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Castle Cloud

Wednesday, 6 November 2019, 17:10.Reading time 2 minutes.

Oooh. On a Gothic Horror Book Vibe here. I have VIVID memories of where and when I read this book by Elizabeth Norman. I was living with my beloved Nan. She was a book freak too. Last time I saw her, she was in an “Old People’s Home.” Relegated, alone, to a corner in the […]

MyMadMusicMixUp. Rewind. Rewind. Rewind.

Wednesday, 6 November 2019, 16:35.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I Need Sleep! OB. Thirsty P.S. One of his names is the same as my eldest son!

I Am in Heaven

Wednesday, 6 November 2019, 15:20.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A RARE gift. I love John and Caitlin Matthews and their works. Today, another deep love/obsession/joy connected with them.

I REJECT This.

Wednesday, 6 November 2019, 14:19.Reading time less than 1 minute.

FFS. OK. I know. Humour and Humbility (as M.Poirot calls it) are better than their bombs and their guns and their guns and their bombs but…there is a limit on the BS meter. Apologies, sincere and undiluted, to the maker of this. You say Drag – ut. I say Drag- oo. But I could be […]

Access Denied. Verboten. Interdit…

Wednesday, 6 November 2019, 13:47.Reading time less than 1 minute.

,,,Choose YOUR language. Same word! Lisa smacks an open minded Italian Nice one, Lisa :o)

I AM Bovvered

Wednesday, 6 November 2019, 13:10.Reading time less than 1 minute.

What is Corned Gunpowder? Never heard of it before and it’s bothered me all morning. Enter the fount of all whatever… Wiki : Gunpowder Oooh Kaaay. Clear as mud. More research needed.

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.