“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.”
Lovejoy. Tinker. Eric…and always in the background… Lady Jane. Antiques. Laughs. The DIVVY. And – you can’t kid a kidder. Kinda like Ian McShane…whose Dad was a Scot with an Irish surname. And who named his son Ian. Whereas IAIN (my brother’s name…middle name Stewart…is the Scottish Gaelic for John) Stewart/Scottish – Stuart/French WTF did […]
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Rumi – nating on Rumi :o) Ruminate : to think carefully and for a long period about something
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A few years back I used to go to Spilsby Theatre twice a month. It was my local Writing Group! Always loved the place – the group was…urm…fraught with ego (?!) Those bloody artistic types. Sheesh! From the official Spilsby Theatre Website : Significance Spilsby Theatre was formed in 1984 from a former sessions […]
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I’m one of those very annoying people who rarely get “sick.” Today has been a bit “Woe is Me”. But… The plum tree is so loaded that I had to do something. I love Nigel Slater. His recipes are simple and pure and taste divine. Even someone unsweet like me who doesn’t do dessert might […]
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Word. Words. Words. It was a joy that Joyce brought to me While William Butler waits And Oscar, he’s going Wilde Ah sure, Brendan where have you Behan? Sailing to Byzantium W.B. Yeats– 1865-1939 That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees —Those dying […]
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This will not be for those who have problems with the ethereal/intangible stuff ‘n’ nonsense in life. But it’s of interest to me on a few levels. In 1927, an incomplete set of playing/tarot cards was found in the Topkapi, Istanbul. I’m reading up the literature – apart from the main book written about this […]
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My all time favourite TV series. Not a bad episode anywhere. The late, great John Thaw.
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From my sorely missed mentor and friend – Leslie Kenton… Radiance From The Living Earth Clay is a pelloid—from the Greek word pellos, meaning mud. The pelloids are a class of earth substances derived from magma deposits. Amongst natural materials, they are unequalled for their therapeutic and health-promoting properties. In Europe they have been […]
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Hagia Eirene (photo between 1888 and 1910). The current building dates from 532. Its predecessor was the first church commissioned by Constantine in Constantinople. From NC : The Church of St. Irina is one of the first basilica temples of the apostolic Christianity, which replaced the former circus temples of patrimonial Christianity FromWiki : Hagia Eirene […]
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The Very First Keyboard Solo Still the Best | UAP
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“Antique” circus in the Syrian city of Bosra When it is a 13/14th century temple/circus. “Antique” temple of Bel in Palmyra (Syria) “Antique” temple of Bel in Palmyra (Syria) – different view P.S. Temples came before Basilicas.
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Something that I have never noticed before… …In Tarot, the World card almost always features the Tetramorph. Well, I never. My Giddy Aunt :o)
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Hidden History Research 