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Pish. How about keeping warm in 2019? Go to coal shed and fill scuttle. Roam around a damp, cold garden collecting twiggy sticks and fir cones. Pile all into the burner. Along with every bit of scrap paper you can find. Shout out loud “Where’s the **************** lighter.” Open dampers. Set fire to all the […]

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Ice Skating on the Thames

Wiki : Frost Fairs   The River Thames frost fairs were held on the tideway of the River Thames in London, England in some winters, starting at least as early as the late 7th century all the way until the early 19th century. Most were held between the early 17th and early 19th centuries during the period known as the Little Ice Age, when the river […]

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An Uncomfortable Truth

It’s a SAD Truth but– TRUTH is rarely sweet or beautiful. Max Igan knows how ugly it can sometimes be :o(  

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John Elphinstone

Wiki : John Elphinstone I’m going round in circles here! I’m very well aware that I have a subjective POV but…Things just are not adding up. So. We have John Elphinstone, an Orkney man, working closely with Samuel Greig, a Fife man, in the Imperial Navy. Both are under the command of — Wiki : […]

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Leghorn

OK. This gets weirder by the day! Still investigating my ancestors and I came across this strange but connected fact… LEGHORN. What does it mean? Let’s go to the all-seeing – Wiki : Livorno Now. What does that have to do with the 1770’s, the Romanov, Scotland. the Imperial Navy and the Admiral? Go away […]

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The Greatest Deception?

Betty Edwards This is a kind of follow on from the last post. Betty Edwards wrote a fabulous book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It’s an artist’s manual but not just for artists. She talks about our two brains. The Left. The Right. And their various functions. Look into it. For me, […]

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The Octave of Salvation

…they came from “Ut Queant Laxis,” a well-known hymn of the Middle Ages that was chanted for vespers. Each succeeding line of the song started one note higher than the previous one, so Guido used the first letters of each word of each line: UT queant laxis, REsonare fibris: MIre gestorum , FAmuli tuorum: SOLve, etc. “Ut” was eventually deemed too […]

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My LEAST Fave Saying

Snooze, You Lose   It’s going round chez moi. Even the dog and cat are saying it. Doggie eats her food. Puddy eats his food. But when it comes to my secret stash of chocolate…..! A Sayin’ too Far. Wake Up????

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Heads Up…

…I have a Cunning Plan Oooooh. Why not USE & ABUSE anything and everything GOOD, TRUE, VALUABLE & GENUINE? Oh,. Yes. I like it. A lot. (Dumb and Dumber vibe?) Anyhoo – How Big is YOUR World?  How many feel that it is their God Given Right to RULE it? Take it or Leave it. […]

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