B.F.P.O.

Thursday, 24 October 2019, 13:41.Reading time less than 1 minute.

British Forces Post Office. In my day it was based in Mill Hill. No idea if it still is. So many past addresses were BFPO. Sigh. Kate knows………How? The All-Seeing Eye?

Laura in the Kitchen

Thursday, 24 October 2019, 12:43.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Oh. Ooooh lala A gal after mine own heart. Dijon mustard. Honey ham. Swiss cheese. It’s called Wooster Sauce here. Yummy. Guess wot we’re having for tea tomorrow???

Cemetery of the Innocents

Thursday, 24 October 2019, 12:25.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Again with the old 17th century France research. Wiki : Cimetière des Saints-Innocents The history books say that the soil there was so rich (!) it could consume a cadaver in seven days! This links with more of my past searches. Wiki : Cour des miracles Always with the “gypsy” slums. […]

I’ve Fallen Back in Love with…

Thursday, 24 October 2019, 11:22.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The Allegory of Love: A Study In Medieval Tradition

Thursday, 24 October 2019, 8:35.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I have this book :o) The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called ‘courtly love’ and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual […]

The Divine Adalina

Wednesday, 23 October 2019, 13:34.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Has – for some weird reason – gone TITIAN! Love it :o) While Titian was mixing rose madder, His model reclined on a ladder. Her position to Titian Suggested coition, So he leapt up the ladder and had ‘er. Now. That’s just rude. Stop it.

Mackerel Sky

Wednesday, 23 October 2019, 12:46.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I’ve just let Tsar out of the front door. My dog. Is this what the Experts call a Mackerel Sky? I dunno. The only thing that I’m expert at is being a non-expert. Whatever. Whatever. It’s very pretty :o)

Christina

Tuesday, 22 October 2019, 16:14.Reading time less than 1 minute.

NOT Aguilera NOT Onassis Not even Christine….Stephen King Stylieeee Christina

Keats Vibe. And No Birds Sing

Tuesday, 22 October 2019, 15:30.Reading time less than 1 minute.

And this is why I sojourn here, Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is withered from the lake, And no birds sing. La Belle Dame sans Merci And throw them in lake – as Kate says :o)

International Cuisine

Tuesday, 22 October 2019, 14:13.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Some mad female announced this morning that she wanted French Onion Soup today. Well. That would be the cat or Me!? French recipe. Don’t cry for me Spanish onions. Local beef stock. Greek Olive Oil. Irish butter. Italian panini. Italian dry white wine. English cheese. (I’d use Swiss Gruyère but I don’t have enough limbs […]

Da Vinci Code?

Tuesday, 22 October 2019, 4:17.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Leonardo da Vinci – John the Baptist Whenever you see the symbol above – right hand, forefinger pointing upwards – you don’t need da (n) Vinci Brown to tell you the message. John the Forerunner is showing you the way :o)

Northern Heart

Monday, 21 October 2019, 7:42.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the centre of the known world, Jerusalem. Come and be my fellow Far-Farer. Come travelling and unravelling with me through Wales, Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Russia, Constantinople, Italy, the Balkans, the Holy Land. Come and Far-Fare through every degree on my 12th century compass.