“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 have this weird obsession with the Egyptology bits of museums. The best I’ve ever seen was/were in the Louvre. I have a zillion photos. Many of them of the mummified cats. I still can’t work that concept out. Why do that to a cat? Anyhoos – a book I have but (my bad) haven’t […]
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Through his own choice of source material, the author of this book reconstructs the commercial life of the Middle Ages, giving the reader an appreciation of how energy resources, manpower and sheer ingenuity were applied to agriculture, light industry, the construction trades and mining. He also brings to life some of the great men […]
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I’m off on a journey. I’m starting in Iceland, then on to Scandinavia and down to Germany. All via poetry and music. I can do the poetry bit – I have the Eddas and the Völsunga and the Nibelungenlied but I may need help from my eldest. He’s a bit of an expert of Wagner! […]
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… MY library (?!) Yup. You know the score. Got it. Read it etc Quite Enlightening. P.S. Michael Palin is Perfect in this filum :o)
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I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad…. All of a sudden People are looking into Myth/Legend/Fairy Tales. The difference between THEM and Me? THEY found Fame & Fortune As for me….? It’s all here. Feel Free to Steal and profit!
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…Dave, the postie, just delivered to me (?) Mmmmn!
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Check it out. A gorgeous Czech crystal. As I’ve said here before – I earned the “label” witch by the locals because of the crystals that I have in my house. I’ve had moldavite for years. First one had a perfect heart inside (you have to hold it up to the light to see.) I […]
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No word of a Lie. Just let the dog out for a tiddle and the new church clock struck 17 AND – another person I sub to on yt (a girlie) has suddenly disappeared. Has anyone read The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett?
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I’ve been a “fan” of Denise for millennia. Check her out. Find out what happened to her when she was 17. Her ancestors are Native American and she Honours them all. Books wot I have times lots by her :o) ‘Our homes are mirrors of ourselves. Through them we can interface with the universe.’ […]
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Oh What a Circus, Oh What a Show?! Watching David Wells’ video just now reminded me of a book wot I have, that I’ve been mining for my next post on the Cathars. A don’t-hold-your-breath-vibe :o( What a co-inky-dink? What’s in a name of the game? A best-selling history of the Third Crusade, when […]
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And I’ll throw a Greta in there just to make a point :o)
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The Sacred Virgin & the Holy Whore Anthony Harris “With the growth of Christianity came the destruction of the Great Goddess religion, to which mankind in every culture had up to then subscribed. Its destruction was carried out by force, torture and despoliation.” [opening sentence of book] Yes, I do. Yes, I have! […]
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