“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.”
I’d bet that most people in the UK have heard about Broadmoor Prison/Hospital. Few know about it’s history though. And fewer understand (!?) Like so many similar Enormous, Elaborate buildings in this country, it was built in the second half of the 19th century…as an ASYLUM! Gordon Bennett – we must’ve had so many #MAD […]
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IN DECEMBER 1926 Agatha Christie disappeared in bizarre circumstances from her home in southern England. The discovery of the crime writer’s abandoned car led to the biggest manhunt in British history for a missing person. Eleven days later she was found in a northern spa town claiming to be the victim of amnesia. Until the […]
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GB : 8th August 2019 Y’all chose to ignore me then. Try this for size ? 8+8+2+2 = urrrrm? Ignore again? I DOUBLE DARE U! P.S. We used to call our builders Bodger & Badger. Not Nice but…….I swear that they plumbed in the shower, the bath, three loos and four sinks with mashed potato!
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I half watched a yt video today that made me spit feathers!!! It mentioned Iolo Morganwg and then dismissed him straight away with the very long-running MS History sentence…“but he faked every antiquarian document he used.” I beg to differ! No surprise there. If you don’t know already, I’ve spent many years researching 11th/12th cc […]
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I was watching this and the name Nellie Bly kept bugging me. Then I had an AHA! moment. Of course. Tut! By The Pricking of my Thumbs : Agatha Christie. There’s a character called Nellie Bligh. This Nellie in the video below was either Very Brave or Extremely Crazy (?!)
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The cable coat is just about finished. Woohoo. Yes. Well, spotted. It’s a different colour. I was half way through the first one when I realised that I didn’t have enough wool to finish so – I started again. And I’m kind of thrilled. I thought it would take until November to knit one coat, […]
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Where did this come from? Oh. That’ll be the creepy crawly ants in my house triggering a memory :o) “Do us all a favour“ P.S. I once (in my sternest Mother voice!) asked my 5 year old son if he had ants in his pants. Quick as a flash he replied : Yeah. And fleas […]
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Hell’s Bell’s and Buckets of Fire, peeps. IT has ALWAYS been here. Right in front of your blind and sleepy eyes! Dooooooofus’s’s’s’s Sorry. Moriarty vibe took me over there :o(
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Throughout my teenage years – well from 10 to 17 – I lived with a poster on the back of the bathroom door. It was similar to the image above but had only two words on it… …OH, SHIT My father had a strange sense of humour :o) Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!Alas! […]
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In the early years of the 20th century the phrase, See you, Oscar, was Glaswegian Slang. It meant – See you, Oscar Slater/See you later. There are many reasons why I love Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle. George Edalji was not the only Real Life person whom Conan Doyle saved. There was also Oscar […]
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OM Good Grief. Like I need to be side-tracked any more. Tut! This “case” has been on my mind for days and I’ve only done the most basic of research. The “friend” who left Netta to fend for herself was Dion Fortune. I’m disliking the “occult” references/innuendos – deeply. To my (strange!) mind, Netta was […]
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This is a subject that does NOT sit well with me. The idea that much of our natural world is made up of fossilised human organs is just a horrifying concept. The only way that I can reconcile what is shown/taught is through analogy. NOW is the perfect time for us all to be shown […]
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