“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.”
Mmmn. The coat has turned out better than I expected. I knitted the collar and trimmed the entire garment with reverse single crochet in a very pale beige/coffee PURE wool/silk yarn. It’s now been washed (again) and set on the dummy to do it’s own thang. I love this part of the process. Zero stress […]
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A purist would pronounce Alcazaba with a “Castilian Lisp.” It was from watching Agua Cadaver that I found out what an Alca-th-aba really was. And I’ve spent all my visits to Spain in the al-Andalus region…….! Rosemary and Laura are invited to a place near Málaga, Spain to “do-over” the garden of one of Rosemary’s […]
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The cable coat is just about finished. Woohoo. Yes. Well, spotted. It’s a different colour. I was half way through the first one when I realised that I didn’t have enough wool to finish so – I started again. And I’m kind of thrilled. I thought it would take until November to knit one coat, […]
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Where did this come from? Oh. That’ll be the creepy crawly ants in my house triggering a memory :o) “Do us all a favour“ P.S. I once (in my sternest Mother voice!) asked my 5 year old son if he had ants in his pants. Quick as a flash he replied : Yeah. And fleas […]
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Hell’s Bell’s and Buckets of Fire, peeps. IT has ALWAYS been here. Right in front of your blind and sleepy eyes! Dooooooofus’s’s’s’s Sorry. Moriarty vibe took me over there :o(
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Because of past experiences of posting yt chans that I watch…I’ve hesitated to share Brooke’s videos. But – I’ve been watching her for about two months now. Catching up, WOW! She is prolific. And beautiful. And does her research. Of all her vids, this one has intrigued the most. The only one that I feel […]
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The White Crow, one-time Soldier-Scholar of the Invisible College and a practitioner of Hermetic science and magic, and Baltazar Casaubon, architect and lover, a man not too particular about his personal hygiene, are two of Mary Gentle’s finest creations. The worlds they stride across range from the Renaissance city where aristocratic rats rule the human […]
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As in New. Not done before. I’m giddy, fizzy, dizzy about the singer/poet person. Did you know…Kate wrote this song when she was 13 years old. She recorded it 3 years later. What did she see/feel/know about This Man? Did she also see the amazing, unique, loving, beautiful child behind the MASK? Y’all’ll have to […]
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From : ourgrandmotherskitchens.com The genesis of the word “rhubarb” comes from its presence along the banks of the Volga River in Siberia; it is a combination of “Rha” (the Greek word for the Volga) and the word “barbarum,” or barbarian. (Obviously those who named the plant were less than enthusiastic about it. I don’t find it at all barbaric.) Beyond […]
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Verb. kiss the gunner‘s daughter. (archaic, idiomatic, navy) To be flogged or beaten while restrained over a cannon. I’m being kind to myself today. I’m halfway through a list of 50 or so Greek and Roman names that I’m researching (ouch) and have decided to STOP! This story is probably my favourite Ruth Rendell Mystery. Several reasons […]
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Hidden History Research 