“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.”
Oooh. I’m being given fascinating videos today :o) This one is a STUNNER for me. I got to know Somerset House quite well. By 1625, it was given over to Marie de Rohan as temporary accommodation when she escorted Henriette Marie to her new husband, Charles I Stuart, in England. By then the building had […]
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I built my shop around my innate love of textiles. 15 years ago it was not so difficult to buy clothes from the 30’s, 20’s, Edwardian, Victorian eras. I’d examine them closely…many handmade…and admire the delicacy of the stitches, the way they were constructed. So – no surprise – I found the video below to […]
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WRF The image above is a very bad picture of my front room. Shrug. I’m blaming my tools! The focus is the picture straight ahead. A William Russell Flint print that I’ve spent half a day trying to find on the internet. I started collecting his prints when I was in my late 20’s. This […]
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I LIKE it. Build me one. NOW, James. In my garden…please :o) How hard can it be?
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Paganini brought me to this channel in early 2018. I felt that I’d met a fellow traveller. I first commented in a live chat a year later……..and got #banned. Anyways and whatever – I’ve always and will always love this toon :o)
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I have such a deep love for marbled paper that I taught myself how to do it…on the cheap! Ordinary paper. Ordinary marbling paints and a cat litter tray (brand new!!) One day I WILL learn how to do it properly :o) I’ve always been a sucker for books with marbled endpapers or covers. Happy […]
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Sometimes the GREATEST Pain brings about the GREATEST brilliance. I’m familiar with the story of Richard Dadd. A truly tortured Artist (!) And we all know Freddie :o) He, Freddie (and this blows my fricking mind) was also familiar with Richard Dadd and his most famous of all paintings – The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke. Two […]
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I have a special fondness for the Pre-Raph/ArtyCrafty movement. For many years I had a huge poster of Flaming June on my wall. And I totes agree with William Morris’s sentiment above. This is a good little video.
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There is a school of thought being taught right now that fountains ARE ancient “TARTARIAN” Free Energy devices. They may well be. I don’t know. But some fountains are something quite different. I’d love to say that I have a FULL explaination of all the finer details in the image above. But I don’t. FACT! […]
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For centuries everyone knew the Labour of Months. Even those who did not work the land. This was as common as common knowledge can get and depicted in art everywhere. January — Feasting; exchanging gifts on New Year’s. Often there’s an allusion to Janus, the god of doors, with two or three heads facing in different directions, […]
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Mmmm. OK. SHUKRAN For That Public Quote about ME yt…………………………………………………. Barf! Hidden History Project/Research aka Dark Ages aka An Age of Light (?) Islamic Art, anyone? I have seen and marvelled F1SRT Hand. P.S. When you travel to Islamic Countries you also SMELL their vibe. OUD/Incense. The place smells AmazeBalls :o) P.P.S. She and I […]
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Don’t Ask! Conversation in supermarket this morning with a masked woman who turned her back on me. OK. She was looking there and I was looking (unmasked) at the opposite shelves. Her : I’m NOT looking at the chocolate. I don’t need it. Me : I do! Her : It’s just that it looks sooooo […]
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Hidden History Research 