Son of Odo

I will NOT go into the real life story of exactly who used this nom de plume when……….ZIP! But my children bear the same name. surname could be from “‘the son of Odo‘ from the nickname Oddy, sometimes Hoddy, whence Odson or……! It’s a common name in Wales. Taken from their father and grandfather and…..maybe (?) […]

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JOKE

Y’all have The BEST Laughs ever – at MY demise. In MY end is MY beginning :o) Guess who’s laughing now ? ? ? What goes around, comes around. #KARMA #DancesWithWolves #FalseFakeFoney #ENDEX #NOTNEEDEDWANTED

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HISS&HERS

Guess what I’ll be re-re-re-listening to tonight! Because I’m SURROUNDED BY THEM – Both HISS&HERS And If I shout SNAKES & BASTARDS one more time today……….!

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MY Local Newsagent

As a kid I visited this shop every day. Since we moved back here I’ve visited this shop thousands of times. Last year the original family sold their shop to a family from Colombo, Ceylon/Sri Lanka. #Controversial? The new owners are lovely. Whenever I go in now I’m greeted with… …Good Morning, Madame. I reply… […]

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Sir Francis Bacon

“REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.” Say what y’all like about Bacon/Freemason/Shakespeare. I’m sooooooo beyond that BS. Though I do quite like Jacobean (James I Stuart) Revenge Tragedy plays. As re-enacted here, below.

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Deryn Lake/Dinah Lampitt : Virgo Rising

I have just opened my FB for the first time in forever to search for something and came across this…! Deryn Lake Deryn/Dinah has been a fave author for decades and she and I connected on FB. So much so that she, very kindly, did my astrology chart for me. Without my ever asking. She’s […]

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Solarization

Which version do you believe? Wiki or Lee Miller’s son? I have NO idea. I’m a point and click and hope for the best photographer :o) Solarization

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Lee Miller

Lee Miller is in my Top 5 list of Amazing Women! LEE MILLER In the 1920’s she was a “model” and some of her most famous pictures were taken by … MAN RAY #ImageAbove As well as being photographed by him, Lee was taught how to take photos (by him.) Her later career was as […]

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Cecil and Garbo

I love this book. I’ve read it several times. That’s why I know about Reddish House. Reddish House Toyah Willcox and her husband, Robert Fripp once owned it. Beaton asked Garbo to marry him MANY times. She always refused. But she did visit him in Wiltshire and allowed him to photograph her… long after she’d […]

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Nine FEMALE Worthies : Neuf Preuses

I talked about the Nine Worthies the other day. These are the Nine Greatest/Most Virtuous/Chivalric Males. They have female counterparts. And the fresco at Castello della Manta shows them too. But – unlike the men who seem to be fixed in history, the women are not. Depending on which source you research, the names of […]

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Tests of Faith

And – Oh, boy. MY Faith has been tested almost too many times for me to survive this! Last night I was given back a much loved but heretofore lost possession in the weirdest way possible. Today I sat with my head in my hands wondering where to go/what to do/why has all of this […]

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Beg Pardon : HOW VERY DARE YOU?

I’ve NEVER been so INSULTED in my life! Please & thank you BUT I NEVER want my name connected with/to a single yt channel EVER! The video below might amuse a few – it’d amuse y’all more if you heard my world traveller-in-crime tell TRUE her story about one of her “charges” in the Private […]

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