“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.”
👺 A menacing, red mask featuring a grotesquely long nose, angry eyes, and bushy eyebrows and mustache. Depicts a tengu, a proud trickster figure in Japanese folklore. May popularly denote evil, anger, cruel or mischievous behavior, and sexual suggestion, due to the phallic appearance of its nose. May also represent supernatural or figurative trolls, goblins, and […]
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Receipt is the olde fashionede way of saying RECIPE. I’ve done this meal TWICE this week. Why twice? Because the first time I didn’t make enough! Both times, I did it in bread tins lined with bacon but the filling was out of this world! BTW : I’m a Dijon mustard girl. BT…BTW : I […]
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A Word of Advice to Brit travellers in Venice. Do NOT blag a table in a restaurant that you’ve not booked, get given that table by a very nice Italian waiter, and then get into an argument with him on the night that England are playing Italy in a World Cup. You’ll get served : […]
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Around 2003 I was dead set on moving to France. I’d found us a gorgeous place to buy and had even talked to the International School at Toulouse about taking my boys. I’d put our house on the market and ….. ! My only two reservations were about losing Corinne, my gorgeous friend and hairdresser […]
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I’m a Sag with Virgo Rising which gives ME the “Catch Me If You Can” vibe. Gemini is the opposite of a Sag. Still mutable. I can J-Turn in a heartbeat. Like a Bat Out of Hell. I’ll be gone when the morning comes etc I like Meatloaf. I’ve cooked it and got a HUGE […]
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Gordon Ramsay has stated publicly, many a time, that Marco Pierre White made him the man he is today on Kitchen Nightmares et al. I had no idea that Marco was such a fan of the crazy BRILLIANT Floyd chef. I LOVE IT :o)
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My youngest son was born in Co. Antrim. Ten miles from Belfast. Knockdhu is 20 miles from Belfast but I never went there. Wish I had. It reminds me so much of the Highlands of Scotland…a bit fierce and unforgiving at times :o) Y’all know how much I LOVE (!) Team Time programming, yes? Let’s […]
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Every page of the new resource I’m reading reminds me of Mr Howard. Our Chemistry teacher. Bless him! Mrs Howard was the R.E. teacher and they both lived in an amazing house about 30 seconds walk from my childhood home. They are both long gone and their house (after decades of being left empty) was […]
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I have no idea if anyone is seeing these posts. I’ve been persona non grata for so long now that I’ve come to love that vibe. Even when I beg to be deleted…I’m ignored! Heyho. Stuart Adamson. BIG COUNTRY. Scotland is not big in the scheme of things…it’s just under-populated because of the hostile environment. […]
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This is something that I have been doing for decades. Painting old furniture. It all started when my Glaswegian Nan died and Dad inherited some of her old furniture. I got her wardrobe. I painted it (aged 10) and Dad helped me to place huge stickybackplastic sheets on the doors. I still do this stuff […]
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If the Turgot 1739 map didn’t impress, how about Agas Map1572, London. In the image above from the Elizabethan 1572 map you will see Somerset Place on the river, next to the Savoy. I used Turgot to walk my characters around Paris and this map to do the same in London. By 1625, when Marie […]
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I’ve got to…Got to…GOT TO watch this film again !
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Hidden History Research 