“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 came across the book featured in the image above several years ago and Immediately fell in love with it. Why? Because it put into words something that I had known all my life. I was fortunate enough to live in a place and a time when knitting was taught in school. To both the […]
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No Apologies. This is the image that I get when I see, hear, read, FEEL certain peeps on whytoob! Over-Inflated EGO and made of Marshmallow. Just my TRUE observations! Kill Me or whatever. Bovvered? Nah I love this film. Especially the secretary. F1RST :o) PUFT Up Thang LAST!
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Me and my weapons expert had a bit of a “conversation” yesterday about the LMG. I’d gone on whytoob to see videos and didn’t recognise anything that I was seeing. Belt fed? NO. Not in my day! Way back in the mists of time he was my instructor (Responsible Adult) on the LMG. Hey. I […]
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Bear with me. My chicken pie starts with onions, carrots, potatoes, chicken stock, garlic pepper, salt and tarragon. Oh. And Chicken. Shove in the Aga for a couple of hours to cook and blend the flavours. Hang on – Big Mistake. WATERY. SLOPPY – Too much chicken stock and no cornflour or gravy granules etc. […]
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Pierre Terrail Isn’t it strange that the Knight without Fear is named BAYARD…after a magical horse? I laughed out loud at this video. Trying to get into a car in full armour. Funny guys :o) C’mon. Just think about it (?) Fighting in armour. Just how ridiculous is that ? But it’d stop you getting […]
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AS if my life isn’t complicated enough, right now! I’ve left this one alone for well over a year because of the major complexities and the fact that I knew that I needed to learn a bit more about a lot more before I could even begin to make sense of it. As you can […]
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9 tenths of me is STOIC. I do what needs to be done. But – occasionally I go FULL STEAM Ahead Epicurean. Why not? A little of what you fancy does you good? I’m not the kind of person who sits on some pedestal vaunting my dietary and wine abstinence. WFT? Life is too short […]
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How many places have y’all been thrown out of/asked to leave? I can honestly say that, in my entire life, the only place that I’ve been “thrown out” of was my local medical centre a couple of months ago. Why? I REFUSED, loudly and in public, to wear a mask. No matter what I have […]
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I’m VERY happy today. NDs everywhere. Blue on Blue. Peeps who don’t know when to just STFU and Get Thee Behind Me. Nice Day to be ALIVE and Breathing :o)
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A doorstop (aka a very thick slice)of Freshly Baked Bread, either raw or toasted. Lashings of Salted Butter and a Mahoosive layer of Dundee Marmalade. Droooool. But more than that – it has been far too many years since I’ve had a marmalade making day. I’m loving this lass. She has a onsies too. And […]
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According to Mainstream History. Then came along three stupid men in three mad Car Boats to take on not just a reservoir but…THE ENGLISH CHANNEL! Reservoir Disaster How to drink tea on an English Channel crossing :o)
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Hidden History Research 