“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.”
This’ll confuse a few. Y Gododdin That famous Medieval Welsh poem talks about the last stand of 300 Britons at Catraeth. Catraeth could be Catterick in North Yorkshire. A spit and a hop from Northumberland and Hadrian’s Wall. Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
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When I’m asked to pick someone up from the Market Place at a stupidly early hour in the morning and they are 15 minutes late… …I sit on a bench in The High Street wearing my spotty, furry slippers and watching the birds on the buildings opposite. This is after going into the local newsagents […]
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That’s all I said after telling the uncle that his nephews were Very TALL & Bulky. 6 foot 6 and 6 foot 3. Uncle nodded wisely : Something in the water up there! My boys are blow-backs from generations long gone. CRABBIT = ME on a bad day. Hagliatelli is brother’s new recipe. Work that […]
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My very first M.O.D. admin job was at HQ SW. I was 22 years old. We were in charge of Quartering. Otherwise known as buildings in this vast area. The buildings did not mean just quarters (soldiers’ houses) but also the nearby COIN & FIBS. COIN – unless I’m retarding in my old age – […]
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OMG: I’m all of a giddy right now. I’ve just had a knock at the back door, opened it and saw a vision! MY BABY BROTHER! Well, there’s only 3 and a half years between us with another brother in the middle, but he’s still MY baby brother. Gordon Bennett, he looks well and happy […]
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I am the quintessential little fish in a HUGE ocean. Never pretended otherwise. I also HATE fishing/fish/seafood/sailing but have been blessed/cursed with generations of sailors and fishermen. And I’ve been subjected aka tortured with many years of fishing programmes. Robson Green has always been my own personal fave – but Himself calls RG a girly. […]
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I was looking for a “business” partner to share a new venture with and have received – out of the blue – an offer from a fellow historian who has followed my work for a long time. Way back since my Weave a Garland days in the early 2000’s. Woohoo. Time for a partner-in-historical-crime, methinks […]
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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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Nah. Big. Fat. Raspberry :o) Oh no not I, I will surviveOh, as long as I know how to love, I know I’ll stay aliveI’ve got all my life to liveAnd I’ve got all my love to giveAnd I’ll surviveI will surviveHey, hey
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I’m currently – as I type – inside a BitchSlap with a fanatical yt commenter who TELLS me what to do. One day I WILL meet a worthy opponent and not some stupid attention whore. Maybe? ENTER THE STASI! BTW : My leaving celebration from Berlin was held in a Russian Hotel in East Berlin. […]
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Yeah. Yeah. Every last one of ’em a comedian. Yet AGAIN, the kidnapping of ME, Myself and i has come up as a way to make money for us all. It’s the same old. Same old. Except now…it’ll cost money up front for the face lift, personal trainer, make-up artist and dresser BEFORE they can […]
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I grew up with this total nonsense :o)
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