“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.”
You’ll probably not remember this! GB : 14th of May 2020. Heirloom Seeds. Many of the seeds that I planted last year in the cast iron gutters lying abandoned at the back of the stable, chucked on bits of waste ground etc were biennial seeds. I knew what I was doing but still kept my […]
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BEESWAX I used to be able to buy blocks of beeswax in town but this wonderful shop closed and is now a COSTALOT Coffee. Not the point. Or is it? I used to buy Mason and Kilner Jars there too for my lime pickles, chutneys, jams etc. NOT the point. Get on with it , […]
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Anita, the Gibraltarian, taught me how to cook this dish. In the RMP office kitchen one day after I’d badgered her for the recipe. So. To me, it has always been a Spanish Dish – Not Italian or Italianish. Anyhoo…I’m drowning in our friends’ surplus chicken eggs and I have some cooked potatoes, a red […]
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Andrea and his son Matteo. Wishing you a wonderful day xxx
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The Quality of Mercy. In order to prove a date, I’m chasing a colour. The trouble is – I don’t know which colour! But I’ve a very strong feeling that the answer lies with the 16th (or maybe 17th) century Venetian artists. This line of thought took me to Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice) which […]
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There is only one Incense product that I have used for the last 25 years. Satya Sai Baba Nagchampa Incense Sticks. A few weeks back, on Mother’s Day, my boys gave me an Amazon Coupon. So I bought three boxes of the Californian White Sage in the image above. Each box contains 12 boxes of […]
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Arsenal :o) Dorothy aka Caroline Quentin is amazeballs. See her singing Nessum Dorma below the below? She starred in Men Behaving Badly and Jonathan Creek and had her own series Restoration Home. All of which I adore. Jonathan aka Alan Davies. He’s an Arsenal fan. ‘Nuff said :o)
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REAL GHOST TOWN? Yes. A town that once had people living there. NOT a fake Ghost Town. Built for FAKE people :o) I’m so embarrassed by the BS content put out nowadays by the “truth community.” Egg shaped starforts in water around 1850 in America with grid lines on an FE map ? C’mon. Get […]
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Or Hermes This “mysterious” sign has been used by merchants since AT LEAST the 1300’s But that’s just history. Who wants to know about anything that happened before the 18fiddies? Not MY audience :o)
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Oh My Goodness. After more than half a lifetime of Lovejoy battles, someone sits down after work and ACTUALLY watches this show on TVFREEVIEW. I walk into the room and say – that’ll be when so and something happened. I’ve read the Lovejoy books. I’ve listened to the audiobooks read by Michael Fenton Stevens (A […]
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But I’ll fogive you. Posted a few moments ago.
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Hidden History Research 