A Right Pickle!

Oh, dear. I seem to have got myself in a right old pickle here! After days of being trapped in Florence with the Medici, I’ve suddenly found out why. “Our explanation of the dispute between Florence and Rome. As we already understand, the “ancient dispute” between the Italian Rome and the Etruscans must be the […]

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Nerissa and Katharine

I’ve known about this story for a very long time. Watching the video about Kaiser Wilhelm reminded me of “The Family” and what they do to hide their own flesh and blood! Check out : JBL And Betty’s cousins. What a #lovely Fam THEY are. NOT!

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It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum!

I bought the DVD boxset a few years ago. A trip down memory lane(!) But we could NOT watch it. Yes. I know. Done this one before. Sue me…all y’all’ll get are my debts. But I met these two in Woolworths (long gone) in Salisbury. They were lovely :o) BTW – H.M. Forces give cruel […]

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James Bond – Dr. No – Three Blind Mice

NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM in nearly 2 years has EVER splatted MY Mind. The same old, same old, same old BS. Week in. Week out. Hour after hour after hour – apparently. I don’t watch so….M’eh! FFS, guys. YT MEN ONLY CLUB… change your shared, run down, over played record and do SOMETHING […]

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Too Many GB Links

Sis-in-law married in a secret location somewhere near Hereford. Himself and his father worked with ’em. I wanted to buy a house in Hereford. Mortgage declined. Too poor! Booooooom! 17 minutes of Fame made three letters famous. Yet, yet….a true Welsh soul who’d been there and done that and knew himself in Iraq……. almost, nearly […]

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An Unkindness of Ravens

I seem to be having one of those everything-coming-together-kinda days. I was living in Ireland when I first started watching the Ruth Rendell Mysteries on TV. FACT! I fell in love with Inspector Wexford (Irish County) immediately and started reading the books. This one freaked me a bit. But today I understand why :o) Percy […]

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HOMER

NO. NO. NO. Not that one. D’oh! I’ve often lamented (what I thought was) my lack of a “Classical” education. We were not taught Latin or Rhetoric or all that jazz. I might’ve made up for it over the years (!) BTW – I’m reading (C)Ovid’s Metamorphoses right now. Will get back to The Odyssey………sometime!

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