“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 know, coming from a multi-generational military family, that STANDARDS are flags. I even know a little bit about the history of STANDARDS. They are called several names : Colours, Flags, Oriflammes, Pennants etc To Raise The Standard used to mean To Fly YOUR Flag. As High As Possible so that everyone could see it. […]
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OR Go To Edinburgh. Via The Forth Rail Bridge. To Waverly Station. And then WALK the walk as opposed to Talk the small talk ? So Arthur’s Seat – the volcanic remnants upon which Edinburgh Castle was built (FACT) is a Melted Building? Where are the Towers? Where are the Domes?
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Thank You! BTW : I saw a live interview with Tom Walker about this song. It was written by him for a friend who was deep inside Drug Abuse and how everyone was trying to to help. I Will Leave A Light On. Loving the puppet astronots. Boing. Boing :o) P.S. I prefer the men […]
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My turn now after nearly 3 years of TORTURE. I’m calling in mine own. The gallowglass were from the western coast of Scotland, principally Argyll and the Western Isles.[2] Their weapon of choice was a battle axe, but claymores were not uncommon. The gallowglasses (also spelled galloglass, gallowglas or galloglas; from Irish: gall óglaigh meaning foreign warriors) were a class of elite mercenary warriors who were principally members of the Norse-Gaelic clans of […]
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More Bingo :o) A follow up to my last post. Sometimes, after calling Bingo, I’d go to the bar at the Holiday Camp (where I lived btw) and find my Policeperson Dad there. Sheesh. Did it piss me off? OH YES! Dad being Dad would say…What are you drinking? Me: Lager. Half a pint. I’d […]
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I’ve done this in my Dad’s hometown in Scotland with whatisname (my much loved brother – btw I LOVE both of my brothers but younger one was sunning himself on a Navy Ship in the Caribbean or SE Asia or the Med !) and our Auntie Christine, who was married to Dad’s younger brother for […]
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Today is an important family day. My brother’s Wedding Anniversary. His GORGEOUS wife’s Birthday. And my parents’ Wedding Anniversary. Celebrate Good Times, c’mon :o) P.S. Blythe Duff is most famous for the TV show Taggart. A Scottish Murder/Cop Series. Always loved her first name – BLYTHE ! And she’s a Sagi/Scot. What more do us […]
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What a grand name for a firm of solicitors :o) OK. Back on the WhoWroteSheakspeare debacle! Who was, if not THE pioneer, the best known voice of the Baconian Authorship theory? Yup. Name Game She did include others as possible authors but she is reported to have travelled from America to Stratford in 1856 “for […]
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From : ourgrandmotherskitchens.com The genesis of the word “rhubarb” comes from its presence along the banks of the Volga River in Siberia; it is a combination of “Rha” (the Greek word for the Volga) and the word “barbarum,” or barbarian. (Obviously those who named the plant were less than enthusiastic about it. I don’t find it at all barbaric.) Beyond […]
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Loving ZiZi Top – Cable Knit? And…..AGAIN…………..An Amazing Performance that I’ll watch and post ad infinitum :o)
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Aha! Drum Download. I love and adore thunderstorms. Viking Thunder Clap Thunder Beings # 1 Thunder Beings #2 Thunder/Drum Being #3 MY DAD. Royal Marines Drummer. Mentor. Highlander.
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Today has been a bloody GOOD Day. I’ve somehow cleared a centuries old Karmic debt of persecution, spite, murder, malice, silencing, revenge and PURE EVIL that had only one goal. THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF ME & MINE Finally. I can GO HOME with my head held high. My self-respect in tact. And MY vows honoured. […]
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