Even Chopin Honoured My Family!

Saturday, 13 February 2021, 19:43.Reading time 6 minutes.

CHOPIN The Raindrop Prelude. I am NOT making this up. If I was – how could I prove the same thing time and again? ? ? Greig’s Tulip ‘Chopin’ “Like a tulip, my robe I’ll rend,and come forth, O Padmani,as thy beloved.”-Ghulam Rasool Mir,Kashmir,India Tulipa greigii ‘Chopin’ bears a cultivar name after Frederic Francois Chopin (1810-1849). […]

Turgot Map of Paris

Saturday, 13 February 2021, 5:55.Reading time 1 minute.

Yesterday I suggested that someone study the 1739 Turgot map of Paris. It’s very telling. I have used this map many times to walk my characters around the city. The image above is the part most used. If you expand the view, you will see the Rue Saint Thomas du Louvre between the Louvre and […]

POETS DAY : Sir Philip Sidney

Friday, 12 February 2021, 11:09.Reading time 1 minute.

I’ve a soft spot for this poet. He has so many links for me. His mother was sister to Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. His sister was Mary (whom some think might’ve written the Bard’s works.) He fell out with Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford and challenged him to a duel. Which […]

da Vinci’s Star

Friday, 12 February 2021, 5:53.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Some extremely clever person took the image above, which was published in the Rosicrucian pamphlet Speculum sophicum rhodostauroticum – 1618, and worked out the sacred geometry encoded there. He found da Vinci’s star. The same star that is hidden in Vitruvian Man. He also found several other hidden secrets in the lines, including something that […]

VAINGLORY

Thursday, 11 February 2021, 17:13.Reading time 2 minutes.

Vainglory by Geraldine McCaughrean is one of those HistFic books that is a keeper on my shelves. Vainglory : excessive or ostentatious pride especially in one’s achievements. 2 : vain display or show : vanity. This book starts in 1429 (Jehanne d’Arc : Siege of Orléans !) An oft quoted line from this novel is […]

Doubting Thomas

Thursday, 11 February 2021, 13:58.Reading time 2 minutes.

There is a HUGE gap between Beyond All Reasonable Doubt and Circumstantial Evidence or the Balance of Probabilities. Because of my previous life, I’ve been a strictly Beyond ALL REASONABLE DOUBT kind of person. A bit like Thomas. Don’t tell me. I have to see it with my own eyes…etc. But – there is also […]

Twice Cooked Bubble & Squeak Baked Potatoes

Wednesday, 10 February 2021, 14:23.Reading time 1 minute.

I watched this yesterday. Beef Cheeks. No. Beef & Ale Stew. Oh, yes. Nan used to make that. Bubble & Squeak Baked Potatoes? Mmmnn! I knew that I’d like them. And eldest would too. But – Imagine my surprise when I described tonight’s tea and EVERYONE ELSE changed their minds and said YES! So Simple. […]

POET-APE

Wednesday, 10 February 2021, 13:05.Reading time 2 minutes.

I have a huge fondness for Ben Jonson. I’ve come across him many times during my research. He was a Wit, a Scholar and a Brainiac ;o) Poor POET-APE, that would be thought our chief,Whose works are e’en the frippery of wit,From brokage is become so bold a thief,As we, the robbed, leave rage, and […]

Too Many Connections!

Wednesday, 10 February 2021, 8:34.Reading time 2 minutes.

I’ve been hounded by a thought/theory for days now! So, I’ve done some preliminary research. The arms above are those of the Earls of Oxford. Two connections : The colours red and yellow and the lone 5-pointed star. Red and yellow are associated with the Cathars. And MSM tells us that the silver star (the […]

Shakespeare’s SuperNova

Tuesday, 9 February 2021, 10:41.Reading time 2 minutes.

I’ve been saying for ages now that I had a feeling that something major happened in the first two decades of the 17th century. Well. I came across this today – the picture and the tale of two supernova. In 1600 a new star appeared in the constellation of Cygnus, the Swan. It was a […]

WooHoo : I’ve Worked it Out. Eventually!

Monday, 8 February 2021, 15:48.Reading time 1 minute.

WHY 24 & 18? Well. 24 is my birth date. There are 18 letters in my birth name. 2+4 = 6 1+8 = 9 9-6 =3 3 6 9 The Goose Drank Wine… Oh. eff. Done that :o( And I have a fondness for the man called Nikola Tesla. Truth. Maybe John Dee would understand […]

“WALL. What’s the World Coming To?”

Monday, 8 February 2021, 13:43.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I love Shirley Valentine :o) I SHOUT at my microwave! My bad :o(

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.