“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 know a little bit about this French poet. Veee – yon! And despite what may or may not be true about him/his life/his history – I’ve always connected with the verses attributed to him. 1431 ? Correct me if I’m wrong but – didn’t Jehanne d’Arc get burned to death in 1431? ? ?
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One day I WILL visit Sissinghurst Castle. Even though it’s now owned by the National Trust!!! Years ago the BBC filmed a lovely series with Sarah Raven and her husband. BBC : Sissinghurst I devoured every episode. Even knowing (and Sarah admitted this in the show) that their family were “allowed” to live in this […]
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Agatha Christie was Brilliant at using Nursery Rhymes in her stories. A Pocket Full of Rye is good. Four and Twenty Blackbirds too. Sing a song of sixpence,A pocket full of rye,Four and twenty blackbirdsBaked in a pie. When the pie was openedThe birds began to sing—Wasn’t that a dainty dishTo set before the king? […]
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Primrose Pale & Violet. As this is still in Working Title Mode – it may change. The outside BS has been such a bonus for me. The synopsis for my first GB Gothic Horror has been sharpened up. Woohoooo! It started as a Short Story but…a) I’m not fond of Short Story. b) I’ve been […]
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Has been made by having MY work here not only helped by, but also VERIFIED by, members of Anatoly Fomenko’s NC team from South America to Spain to Bulgaria to Russia and many points in between. I find it very sad that so many today prefer the False, Fake & Foney over TRUTH, Hard Work, […]
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SomeTHING on yt has quite blatantly talked about IT’s bloodline. German – Holy Roman Empire French – Isabella the She-Wolf, daughter of Philippe IV (the Fair) Isabella has gone down in history as killing her husband, Edward II of England with the order to stick a RED HOT POKER up his….bleeeeep! The Holy Roman Empire […]
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I’ve gone back to one of MY favourite garden writers. Wiki : Eleanour Sinclair Rohde I think that I have every single book of hers but, puhlease, don’t quote me. And Do NOT ask me my fave book of hers!!! What? OK. If I must… The book above. I make/have made my own pot pourri […]
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Sorry. MY Bad. I hadn’t realised just how far back this fascination went. Programmed? Moi? Going Waaaaay back. To a back bedroom in Nan&Grandad’s house. So small that it had a single bed and a small bookcase. On said bookcase were my Mum’s childhood books. Mostly Enid Blyton. I read this one, in that room. […]
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I have the book above. Why? Well. In case y’all hadn’t guessed by now (!) I have a bit of a penchant for this genre. It started aged about 10 when I read Castle Cloud by Elizabeth Norman. So followed many others (in no particular order) Bronte, Mary Shelly, Daphne du Maurier, Ann Radcliffe, The […]
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WHO has spent her whole life reading books? WHO has read Dumas? WHO knows history? A UAH?
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Aha. But Which one? I’ve had contact via yt and personal emails with FEB – Martin Speaking. In a comment that I made Looooooong ago (and long ago deleted) I asked him if he’d read The Mabinogi – The GREATEST of ALL Welsh Books. His reply to me – Greta Brookes – via a PUBLIC […]
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WOW! Never, EVER did I even begin to imagine that MY lifetime fascination with M&L would lead to this moment in time when I have FULL, Documented EVIDENCE of an attempted murder! WTF is going on, Miss Marple?
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Hidden History Research 