“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.”
Puhlease – do NOT be #stupid and #programmed and leap to the #obvious. This is NOT a Sherlock Holmes fictional story aka The 5 Orange Pips. This is REAL LIFE. If you understand that? Someone very close to me served for 6 months at a time (as in 3 times 6 months) in what I […]
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Oh, yeah… OBSERVABLE REPEATABLE REPRODUCIBLE Well. You can OBSERVE over 6,000 posts since July 2018. I can & do SELF-REF aka repeat myself often. Reproducible? See both the above. And then make a video or comment under YOUR FAKE name and reproduce MY stuff. Simples.
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I totes understand why y’all HATE me :o) Humber Pig Been there. Done that Vibe. Londonderry. L’ill Ol’ Me, 2 male RMP, lots of RUC, some D&D for fire-power! It was the wifey whose home we bashed into at 3am who scared me most :o( But then…she was far less vocal than I’d’ve been in […]
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He is a man. I’m a woman. He is dark-skinned. I am fair-skinned. He is tattooed. I am not. He is #famous. I am not. He speaks. I write. He is American. I am not!!! None of the above matters to me. He does EXACTLY what I do. When we get a download, we upload. […]
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I’ve talked quite a lot here about my paternal family and their being Scottish Presbyterian. I’ve also talked a bit about anagrams. OK. Prove this FACT wrong ? An anagram of Presbyterian is… … BEST IN PRAYER Not that this means anything important. It’s just one of those things that JUST ARE!
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I’ve just spent several hours piecing together bits and pieces that I could find from a book referenced everywhere. Suddenly – I come across a picture of the cover of said book and Cuss Loudly. That looks familiar. I rush to my shelves and sure enough, the bloody thing is sat sitting there!!! Oh. I […]
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If y’all know Renaissance History, y’all will know why Francis 1 of France was called The Salamander King. And why Francis/Francois became Leonardo da Vinci’s last patron. And what the Salamander symbol means. And why FIRE is the element du jour. Cue Billy Joel…again. P.S. I met an America man in my shop (and knitted […]
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OK, y’all. If you want a piece of me it’ll cost you £50,000. I -as in ME – bought this property for twice that price in 2004 with the help of money left to me by my Mum. After the sale of HER property (14 years later) in Benalmádena, Spain. This building was my shop. […]
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There is a (square) point to this. To be honest, I’d’ve had to go through all the Poirot books to show his MANY Art Deco rather than Art Nouveau preferences. But could not be arsed. Poirot was – eeerm – slightly OCD on the Straight vs Curved thingy. What’s that got to do with (schwoon) […]
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I came across the book featured in the image above several years ago and Immediately fell in love with it. Why? Because it put into words something that I had known all my life. I was fortunate enough to live in a place and a time when knitting was taught in school. To both the […]
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OK. What is Jeremy wearing? The only clue from me is the country they are in : Albania. PLAIN SIGHT ? Or am I just plain evil? And useless? And not worth a thing because I have Nothing to offer? Just demolish MY house, peeps. Years of work for ZERO income because something decided to […]
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…I’m in the WRONG Library, methinks :o( I’m having a Top Gear day. Why? Because this programme (too many letters in that word?) reinforced mine own belief that many, Many, MANY Truths can be shown through Humour, Self-Deprecation and Outright STOOPIDITY. Lesson of the Century – BE Very WARY of those who call themselves Experts/Knowledgeable/Educated/TrailBlazers/Life-Changers/Gurus/Teachers […]
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