“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.”
The Flying Chair Jean-Jacques Renouard, Count of Villayer (1605-1691), is reported to have invented this mechanism. He perfected this system in Paris and, thanks to his ties with the House of Condé, installed it at Chantilly and at Versailles, in the prince’s own mansion. Saint-Simon comments on the invention of these flying chairs, “which by […]
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I’m love…love…loving being Jim Moriarty. James – a school mate. James – my Dad’s brother. Eeerm. Did y’all not guess that Jim was Sherlock’s SHADOW side? Quote : Because we are just alike you & I. I’ve totally embraced MY shadow side. She’s quite beautiful and clever and DARK :o) But she has a good […]
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Computer generated graphics has been in our lives for quite a while now. We can’t accurately predict what it will bring in 35 years, but we can go that far into the past and see where it all began. This video from BBC’s show Tomorrow’s World demonstrates the beginnings of CGI in 1982. The witty presenter […]
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Many times. In real life. God’s Honest. There is a Lebanese restaurant right by the fountains that we always went to. Best Hummus and lamb/beef kebabs EVER. In my opinion :o) Right by the Burj Khalifa. Where I lived for a while… but never went near the whole wall windows 40 floors up because I’m […]
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His name is Jim. He was a school mate and a good friend. He is very like everyone else in my school. Well – the 50% of us that said TFAYCD. TFAYCD – A Boothby Graffoe song. Of course we had the usual goodygoody kids in the class. Then there was me and K and […]
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I’m building a new net-home. Great Success. Apart from the fact that my murdered laptop has most of my previous work on it. I have ONE follower. Eeeerm – that’ll be me automatically being told to LIKE ME :o) And one like. Woohoooooooo. Celebrating.
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We have a scorchio weekend coming up and the traffic is already going mentals…the mad dash to the coast. This is where our main road leads to (image above) Go any further then you’ll be in the North Sea. My earliest memory of Bumper cars is going to the Arbroath October Fair with my Dad […]
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I’ve been hearing this song all day, trying to figure out who sang it. Oh. SOS. Swing Out Sister. It comes from my Thursday gallivant about the local garden centre with a friend who went to the same school as me. At the same time but a few years younger than me. We were comparing […]
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That’s all I need :o) We used to be able to buy Scotch (Mutton) Pies here but, sadly, no longer. They taste better up there, anyhoo. Many a time me and Lily (Nan) would stroll into town to pick up her messages (go shopping in English) and come home with freshly made floury baps and […]
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I’m beyond confused now. An annotation to Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus says this about Aaron the Moor aka Judas… Morian (Aaron’s) account of his previous relations with the “Queen of Mehrenland” and the conquest of that land BY The Romans. Several points. Aaron’s lover in the play is Tamora, Queen of the Goths. By her he […]
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Why not? The men of the house had the pig sty converted into a man-cave with fruit machines, a bar, dart board, super-duper stereo system plus TV…I’m going to have a SHE SHED. So there. We have his and her sheds in the orchard already. Hers has a leaky roof and rotten floorboards but I’m […]
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