“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’m planting in memory of Ophelia. A part of my garden will be dominated by Rosemary. Pansies are so very gorgeous. Sigh. Fennel I can take or leave as food – but the foliage is amazing. Columbine is my favourite name but I grew up calling them Granny’s Bonnet. Now they are Aquilegia. Whatever. Gorgeous. […]
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Wiki : Malory Towers Where the fluff did that come from? Well. I was in the garden this morning, remembering my grandparents and how much they taught me about nature. And remembering the back bedroom. The single bed. The rag rug my Dad had made. And the little bookcase filled with Mum’s childhood books. Mostly […]
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Yep. I’ve found a teacher. This summer I will be taking time out. I have 2 acres of Mother Earth to regenerate and food to grow for my family. Strawberries and new potatoes seem to be the most popular, right now. Go figure! Being a “fair-weather” gardener and this being the UK…I’ll pop back inside […]
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OK. Whatev’s. My stats tell me that I’m being mined for info from/in long ago posted posts. A bit like…. Which is soooooo similar to Agatha Christie’s book – Hercule Poirot’s Christmas. Which just happens to be on of MY fave AC books and one of MY fave DS Poirot’s episodes (which – no surprise […]
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I wonder if I should keep these diaries under lock and key. Jenny Spede has disturbed them again . . . What does she make, I wonder, of an old woman, deformed by arthritis, stripping naked for a young man? The pills worry me more. Ten is such a round number to be missing . […]
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Because I have no time right now to trawl through thousands of pages of handwritten notes and hundreds of books Anne of Austria’s Opulent Bathroom Cardinal Richelieu’s SECRET librarian who plundered books from all over that now lie in reverence in MAJOR French libraries P.S. The Palais Cardinal/Royale in Paris is amazeballs :o)
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Mmmmmmn! I grew up watching Baz Rath Sherlock Holmes. My fave film with him and Nigel Bruce has always been….see below. But when my youngest was in hospital, way back, I read the original short story. The 5 Orange Pips. The two could NOT be more different. Thanks UnHolyWood. NOT :o(
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In case you didn’t know. Sheesh. From the year dot. I’ve loved this genre. IF I ever get the time & chance – I’m gonna write one. Just like but maybe different to M&W and it’ll be called…. Murder at the Grange :o)
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For some strange reason, the yt channel below keeps on triggering me. I can’t have been more than 12 or 13 when I first read a HistFic novel about Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Calico Jack…all those dandy pirates. A few years later I came across… Wiki : Grace O’Malley There’s something a bit too […]
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Not only is it my youngest son’s birthday (Happy Beltane) It’s also Friday. POETS Day. Have I done Edmund Spenser before? Whatev’s. I have the book Faerie Queene. It’s HUGE. That’s not a poem. That’s a magnus magnusson opus that I struggle with many times. Just give me another 100 years and I might finish […]
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Well. As someTHING out there in internet fakeland has decided that it’s now time to completely destroy one of the very best Myth & Legend texts EVER written – may I humbly suggest that y’all read ALL of the above named writer’s works ? Wiki : Evangeline Walton A beautiful friend of mine introduced me […]
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A macabre discovery in the All Saints’ parish graveyard leads Superintendent Alan Markby and his friend, foreign office official Meredith Mitchell, to the dark secret behind the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl twelve years earlier. The vicar of Bamford, Maurice Appleton, knew he was a dying man. When he discovered traces of a strange, […]
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