“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’ve been out in the outside quite a lot lately and my FRECKLES (eeeek) have appeared…across my nose. On my arms. Dad had jet black hair and light grey eyes. Mum had mid-brown hair and deep brown eyes. My hair is dark brown with a goodly amount of red in it. Neither parent, neither brother […]
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OK. New Word Learned. I’ve set myself an almost impossible task. Woohoo. (?) Back to basics to re-find Pliny in a New Chronology. Daggnabbit. I thought I’d got them with RED :o(
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The Quality of Mercy. In order to prove a date, I’m chasing a colour. The trouble is – I don’t know which colour! But I’ve a very strong feeling that the answer lies with the 16th (or maybe 17th) century Venetian artists. This line of thought took me to Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice) which […]
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About a thousand years ago I had a website selling my hand-crocheted handbags. The above was my tagline. From the poem below. POETS DAY? I still have well over 100 handmade handbags here. Never sold a single one on t’internet. GAVE away, free gratis and for nothing, more than a few to family members :o( […]
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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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Seeing Keith Floyd in the Kenny Everett video yesterday gave me the idea for tea today. As did the gale force winds and driving rain. We need GOOD WARMING FOOD. I’d love to say that I cooked from scratch but I didn’t. I cheated by going to Tesco. Heyho. We used to have an office […]
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Well. That’s distressing!!! When researching, I go back as far as the sources available to me at a certain point in time can take me. Today finds me on page 1 of a book printed in the 19th c (an English translation of the original French…woohoo!) It starts well. Using the ancient Greek sources (?) […]
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Hidden History Research 