“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.”
…Shakespeare. Well, in my world anyway. The following was written by a British Admiral/Pasha serving in the Turkish Navy. “Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to […]
Four books found. Written by a 19th c “British” Sir who served as Pasha (Admiral) in the TURKISH Navy…writing about the Scots who served in the Imperial Navy. Light at the end of the tunnel or counting chickens? Time will tell.
Flag of Trebizond Wiki : Thomas MacKenzie The Highlander who founded Sevastopol. Khouter MacKenzie, in the Crimea, is so named from Admiral MacKenzie, who. commanded the Black Sea fleet under Katherine II, and fortified Sebastopol. In 1738 MacKenzie of Conansby was a colonel under the Empress Anne, and Captain MacKenzie of Redcastle, another […]
I give up. This is even too effing bizarre for me. Cream crackered now. My BFF (known each other since we were 11) and I went to stay with BFF’s cousin in London. Said cousin was married to an actor who’s BF was an actor who’d starred in Monarch of the Glen with Tom Baker […]