“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 must be Very BAD…to the point of EVIL! My boys are sooooooo programmed :o( Anytime I play a song MAXVOL they walk in and say…Oh. That’s xyz, Mother. You always played that when we were kids. And then walk out again. Rolling their eyes! REM. Point in Case. Also Eddi Reader. Dido. The Cranberries. […]
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I’ve spent half a day trying to find an internet picture of The Princess Royal Block, Europa Point, Gibraltar. But all images seem to have been scrubbed. Anyhoo. We lived there. On the second floor. A four bed flat with four balconies. The living room had windows looking onto La Linea, Spain and North Africa. […]
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And so is the weather! Three days of rain and it’s been proper snowing in Lincoln :o( BUT… …My day has been saved. Woohoooooo! After almost a year with no tv and no DVD player in the kitchen – we now have a TV with in-built DVD. Gotta love the younger generation and their technologicamagical […]
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At Roussillon Barracks we had lovely neighbours who’d rescued a fricking gorgeous German Shepherd dog from the German Army because he was deemed too old to do GSD dog things for the German Army. Anyhoo. Every morning we’d hear the command RAUS. RAUS. The doggie performed his duties better to German language orders! Another TRUE […]
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This is one y’all’ll NEVER believe. Whatever. It’s still true. In 1999, the year after that this song was released, my traveller-in-crime and I found ourselves the only two people on the Welsh hotel dance floor at a party celebrating someone’s 60th birthday. The DJ had played it once already and we (me and she) […]
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An old school mate of mine contacted my brother and asked about me. OMyGiddyAunt! He (brother) passed on the message. She’ll remember when we used to sneak into the music room and play my Northern Soul albums! I remember. I remember NOT being a fan of Northern Soul music. And maybe…sometimes…arguing my case with him! […]
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As a young girl in Berlin, I shared a room with a Here she is/There she’s gone girl. When she was “here” she had two tickets for a Barry Manilow Concert in the American Sector. I was her 3rd or 4th choice. The only one who said YES! We went. We watched. I’m NOT a […]
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I used to be a member of the village Pub Quiz Team. We’d travel around the local pubs showing just how Very Clever we were (!?) There seems to be a theme to my life. Last- two seasons running on the Ladies Darts Team, Second to Last on the unit Squash Competition, Last- on the […]
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I had an inkling, even before this book arrived, that it would be fantastic. If the intro is anything to go by, I’m in good company. BTW. I loved my school years. Almost every day was FUN. Maybe because we were a very happy bunch of kids who placed the “education” part of going to […]
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I’m so in love with and enthralled by the Liars, Cheats & Thieves :o) They now watch what I watch…..but haven’t got a fkin clue why they do it. Apart from TRASHING me and myself and I ? Aaaaaw. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! These Three Musketeers are middle-aged 13 year olds Who love life and fun. The song […]
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I love these boys for many reasons. Geordies. Hairy. Bikers. Cooks. Funny. COOKS! Men. COOKS. Men who cook! And no. NOT my curry today. Tempus Fugit. I didn’t even have time to open and read their cookbooks in my kitchen, never mind about the worry of buying lemongrass and galangal in Lincolnshire!!!!!!!! I cheated. Shoot […]
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Fludd (1574-1637) is on MY List. Over 20 years ago he was presented to me as a teacher and influencer of Claude de Lorraine, Duc de Chevreuse Make the links with that one yourselves ? Don’t y’all just love it when multiple paths open up and multiple timelines converge? Shakespeare’s quote is in Agatha Christie’s […]
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