“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.”
I adore this book. As you can see above…my copy is almost stuck together with sticky notes. These are all MY rewrites of the history from a different point of view. Just because I disagree with his conclusions, does NOT mean that I reject his book. FACT! I’m having an AbFab Day :o)
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The video below had me scurrying to my shelves to disprove wiki info. Darn. St Bart’s WAS “founded” by a jester called Rahere. Henry I’s jester. As in Henry I, youngest son of William the Bastard Conqueror. OG Source RRAN 2 (Regesta regum anglo-normanorum) numbers 1794, 1795, 1943, 1761…and NO…these are NOT dates. Anyone who […]
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I love the incongruities of this channel. A bit Jane Austen and afternoon tea with buttered scones and strawberry jam. A lot HomieThug dripping in gangsta gold. Genius :o)
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I was 12 years old when my Mum lent me her copy of the novel Katherine by Anya Seton. We were living here then, and it ignited my interest in local history. From Bolingbroke Castle to Lincoln Cathedral which are about 26 or so miles apart. And it also helped me with the English Royal […]
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If you remember the nursery rhyme. My brothers and I used to build a huge pile of sand on the beach, walk a long way away and then race each other to see who’d climb the hill first. Whoever did, got to sing the rhyme. P.S. We were NOT averse to dirty tactics and a […]
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This was written by Horace Walpole in the 1700’s. Hang on…..1764. It’s said to be the very first “GOTHIC” novel ever. I have a copy but…to me it’s on the shelf with the likes of Dickens and Hardy and Waugh etc. When (LOL) I have an entire month in total isolation, I may finish it […]
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And y’all think you invented this? Shame on y’all. Will Carpenter BTW : This is the best that yt has to offer. Not My fault :o)
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I adore her books. Especially Ash. She doesn’t promote herself all over the internet. Which I admire – even when I’m trying to researrch the woman behind the books. Nota Bene : GRUNTS is a word we use in HM Forces for the front line “Cannon Fodder.” Sorry but They are the REAL workers. The […]
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Why don’t people write Gothic Novels like this anymore? Oh. I’m being olde-fashionde and longing for an innocence that is long lost. Heyho! This is a LIKE bloody LIKE crap review of the LIKE Victorian Gothic LIKE genre. Great story though.
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Last night I was caught short aka needed a wee. I left my ipad downloading The Secrets of Pain audiobook by Phil Rickman. I went back to said ipad and found – The Prayer of the Night Shepherd downloaded. TRUE. FACT! OK, said I. Emma Powell narrates. I love her voice. I love this story […]
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I came across Arthur G in the late 1980’s. Looking around secondhand bookshops. I’d read HistFic about the Cathars so AG’s book about reincarnation intrigued me…and led onto many future years of studying this persecuted Christian “sect.” All these years later, I’m still intrigued. The video below recommended the video below the one below. Proviso […]
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I have this book. I KNOW I have this book. And I read it as part of my research for Weave a Garland. Can I find it ? No. I bought and read it for one reason only. Wat Montagu, Marie de Rohan’s best friend, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham’s spy and one of my […]
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