Explomo : Ignoring The Lockdown BS

Wednesday, 10 June 2020, 14:13.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Woohoooo. Go, lads. Carry on exploring. #Respect :o)

Enough is ENOUGH

Wednesday, 10 June 2020, 12:29.Reading time less than 1 minute.

GB Lyrics : Enough is Enough. I CAN’T stand your Fluff. I’m too Tuff. I’ve ‘ad ENOUGH :o)

RISSOLES

Wednesday, 10 June 2020, 12:10.Reading time 2 minutes.

I blame either the TV or their mother (!!) but – every time I cook this and am asked “What’s for tea, Mum?” and answer Rissoles. I get the same response from my sons. “What did you just call me?” Sigh. Anyway. This is MY late mother’s recipe, with a few tweaks. Mashed potato (I […]

ONE Message Caused a Landslide

Tuesday, 9 June 2020, 15:34.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Pouty Vibe :o( Who needs friends like that? Oh. I DO. Thank YOU :o) P.S. BUT…c’mon. Just STOPstopstop with the fluffing MacWoodFleet. Puhlease ? ? ?

C.S. Lewis vs D.I. Robbie Lewis

Tuesday, 9 June 2020, 10:37.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Oh. I made myself LOL there :o( Whomever wrote the Lewis series (and Stephen Churchett was one of the best) knew a thing or LOTS about Life & Literature!?! The Allegory of Love – Murder Mystery Styleeeeeeeeee. P.S. Go away. I have 40 minutes free to ogle at D.S. James Hathaway. Schwoon!

Depeche Mode

Monday, 8 June 2020, 14:46.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I’ve loved this band from the first time I heard them – about a million years ago. Some people think that their music is dreary and boring and LOW vibe. M’eh. I love their lyrics. ‘Specially in THIS song…….Reach out and touch faith :o) P.S. Go away Freddie and your Barcelona vibe!

Björk Guðmundsdóttir : Mad As A Box Of Frogs

Sunday, 7 June 2020, 14:25.Reading time less than 1 minute.

That’s why I love her vibe :o) It’s oh so quiet ? ? ?

Melodrama : I Can Do That !

Sunday, 7 June 2020, 10:49.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Quite well, actually. Crédieu, mes braves. Je meurs. Je meurs. Schwoon :o)

I’ve Just Given Birth in a Gutter

Sunday, 7 June 2020, 9:55.Reading time 1 minute.

And they called Sarah Bernhardt melodramatic. Pish :o) We inherited several of the original Victorian Cast Iron gutters with the house. They were a little rusty and no good as gutters and abandoned in the garden. I’ve lost count of the times that “workmen” have offered to take them away for free (!!??) I’m using […]

P O E T S Day #2 : Roman de la Rose

Saturday, 6 June 2020, 17:01.Reading time 1 minute.

Hey. I can get away with this. Tomorrow is Sunday, yes? Wiki : Roman de la Rose This is a fancypants Frenchified early version of many books like the much more dour John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. It even pre-dates the great Chaucer tales (!?) And yes. I have the book. I’ve read the book. I […]

Change IS Coming You Better Run

Saturday, 6 June 2020, 15:39.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Smack myself silly. I REMEMBER now why I loved Marc Bolan so much. What an amazing, prophetic, fricking lyricist he was!!!

Heracleum Mantegazzianum

Saturday, 6 June 2020, 14:52.Reading time 1 minute.

That up there in the title is the Latin name for Giant Hogweed. The image is a photo of MY garden and just how BIG this weed grows. (It’s the one with white flowers now taller than the first floor roof of the stable. How do I know this Latin name? Via La Belle Dame […]

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.