‘Erbs vs Herbs

I’m being petty. Sorry :o( Brits say Herbs. And my sage needs to be dried. Sage has been my one and only great success this year in the garden. So, as I’m potless (no money) and just about out of dried sage to burn…I’m gonna dry mine own. Yay :o) It’s been, like, forever since […]

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Three Blind Mice : Agatha Christie | FREE AUDIBLE

I’ve been Very stupid in the past and spent money – lots of – on Apple itunes audible books. I still LOVE them. ‘Specially Greg Wise (schwoon – Sorry Emma Thompson but – gorgeous voice) and Saskia Reeves | Dracula I’m on my 20th or so listen. I keep falling asleep as Jonathon and the […]

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Ref : Previous Post

“THEY/THEM” have – over the past nearly two years – www PUBLICLY called ME Dinosaur/Stalker/Evil/A Need To Study More/Dolphin Sex-Fetishist?/So Hidden that I can’t be found/NO CONTENT/Hopefully the 101th Death in the UK/Don’t like MY ways/Useless/Worthless/Hopeless/Crazy/Mad/et al Mmmmmmmn. Let ME SHOW Y’all the cards that I HOLD? #JupiterDirect? Suck IT up, Phoneys :o)

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A-ha : Victory Column

I drove down this road countless times en route to do a 12 hour stint/duty at Tiergarten. The office was right between the Brandenburger Tor and the Reichstag. Fond memories of Russian conscripts going through MY gates to guard their Soviet War Memorial. I opened the gates. They smiled and waved :o) BTW – I […]

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Palazzo della Ragione, Padua

This is another MUST SEE place on my list! Palazzo della Ragione, Padua Those frescoes – Schwoon :o) One of the frescoes is the image below. Who is she? LOOK AGAIN! Yup. She looks very much like Mary and the Holy Child but she’s NOT! In a Catholic country, in the 15th century, Venus and […]

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Diego Velázquez : Lady with a Fan Controversy

Weave a Garland of my Vows by Greta Brookes

I don’t think that I have ever truly revealed this before but… … I chose the image for my novel with great deliberation after learning about this major ART controversy decades ago. Diego Velázquez painting – And the ART vs HISTORY collision came from – I feel that this is a portrait of Marie. She WAS […]

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Cosimo the Coward

Grand Duke Cosimo I de Medici was so rich and so famous that he could not walk out in public amongst his plebs…for fear of assassination (?) So he spent squillions to have the also-but-not-quite-as famous Vasari build him an escape route way above the commoners’ heads. It is called – The Vasari Corridor Good […]

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The Symbology Within Bronzino’s Allegory of Public Happiness

Below is the first part of a much longer article. The Symbology Within Bronzino’s Allegory of Public Happiness By Greta Brookes Bronzino spent many years as court painter to Cosimo I de Medici in Florence during the 16th century. The painting above is called The Allegory of Public Happiness and like many, if not all, […]

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Family Photo – 1915

My beautiful second cousin (Mum’s cousin) has sent me some treasured photos of our shared ancestors. The photo above is of my grandfather (Clarence)the eldest, aged 9 in 1915. His mother and two younger brothers. Clarence was my Mum’s real father. Annie and he divorced when Mum was about 6/7 years old and I only […]

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Reading Energy

If y’all wanna be Hex-perts in Reading Energy. May I humbly suggest (?)….# That you are A NATURAL BORN EMPATH (or even an advanced Empath aka an Heyoka?) HEYOKA is a title that many can claim via various means (Cough…yt commenters?) – but it’s God-Given, not man made. You were born a Sacred Clown. Someone […]

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