“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.”
OK. Left to me. I can do this. L’il Jackie Greig aka Great Brookes is STILL forbidden. Hunted. Trashed by people who believe that the world started in 1850 (?) My children will NEVER be proscribed. As I Live & Die I WILL reclaim MY family. P.S. I don’t like CAMPBELL’s. Sorry. It’s in my […]
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Blimey O’Reilly…I’m going to have to think twice every time I do the SFA thing :o( I had no idea about the origin of this saying. And it’s even worse for me because I used to live near Alton. I was commissioned to write a piece about Jane Austen’s house there, so visited quite a […]
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I HAVE to rewrite the obit below from the Skegness Herald. My Dad died on the 26th of June. My eldest’s birthday. Younger brother phoned me a half hour later as I was shopping in Tesco for birthday party food. My Mum was called Fernley. Dad was cremated on the 5th of July – his […]
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Last night I was caught short aka needed a wee. I left my ipad downloading The Secrets of Pain audiobook by Phil Rickman. I went back to said ipad and found – The Prayer of the Night Shepherd downloaded. TRUE. FACT! OK, said I. Emma Powell narrates. I love her voice. I love this story […]
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Hey. Asti Spumante IS NASTY ASTI. Sorry but…have y’all tasted it? Sorry John :o(
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TAB : Don’t mind if I do. I don’t have a Cat Or Ull key either. MuMuLand. Oh. Song incoming !
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OOOps. Comment from January the 24th 2019. GRAND TARTARIA, LOVE TO ALL, RESEARCH, THE HIDDEN HISTORY PROJECT Tartary Empire – A Modern Hijack (?) Thursday, 24 January 2019, 16:23 The great BUZZ subject today seems to be Tartary. The enigmatic Tartarian Empire. Yes. It is intriguing. And the most intriguing part of it – for me – is […]
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I have a DOME in town that I see most mornings. It is in “the yard” aka the Local Council Depot. The paper for it is …. 2016? It’s a huge domed barn that stores the GRIT & SAND needed to fill the multiple GRITTERS who make our roads safer in the Cold & ICY […]
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A Q was asked in a live chat a few days ago. About kids. It was ignored by the channel creator and the multiple mods. Whom, I’ve always assumed, are close and trusted friends. If the answer was YES, why ignore it? If the answer was NO, why ignore it? When my husband and I […]
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Phil Rickman books are hard to digest. But WELL WORTH the effort. I’ve read all the Merrily Watkins ones. This one stands out for personal, REAL LIFE reasons. My sister-in-law married her husband (their two year old son was at the altar between them) in a secret location located near Hereford. Her father worked there […]
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I have played the Dull & Boring version of this game. Known as Cluedo in the UK. Tut. Too many letters used by us snobby untrustworthy Brits. It scans with Clouseau (?) How to play. Via a child.
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I came across Arthur G in the late 1980’s. Looking around secondhand bookshops. I’d read HistFic about the Cathars so AG’s book about reincarnation intrigued me…and led onto many future years of studying this persecuted Christian “sect.” All these years later, I’m still intrigued. The video below recommended the video below the one below. Proviso […]
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