“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.”
OMG. I missed the Tennyson bit? And he is my homie. Bad. Head Hung/Hanged in SHAME :o( From the Guardian Newspaper : We have recently pointed you at a graphic novel about the history of puzzles and at the first novel by Guardian setter Picaroon, each of which remains heavily recommended. Time for a peek at a golden-age […]
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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 watched a video this morning and the first thing that I noticed in the painting was the Centurion’s left thigh. It just struck me as strange. What if this was a Cilice Strap? But then – why would Veronese paint it into a 16th century portrait? Apparently, allegedly, so the media says, modern day […]
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As a child I did this many times and had my friends do it to me. Himself just mowed the lawn. Perfect swathes. But he annihilated all my buttercups :o( Do you like butter? Hold a buttercup under your chin and folklore says if there is a yellow reflection on your skin it means you do. But the real […]
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So yt says. Just because the U S of A will NOT recognise it’s Indigenous Peeps whereas the UK always has…doesn’t make us a FAKE nation. FACT! So the Native Americans (amazing people in my opinion) are not RECOGNISED by the Land of the Free. DO NOT PROJECT HATRED & BLAME US. WE KNOW OUR […]
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HAEY HEY! I’ve just done something Very stupid. I’ve just set myself up for yet another lifetime ban. Woohoooooo! My father would be proud of me :o)
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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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Marcus, brother of Titus says on line 280 – Suum Cuique is our Roman justice: I was not taught Latin in school but have come across enough of it throughout my research to be curious. And I’ve read enough Shakespeare to question the image above. Macbeth??? Nope. Fake News. I can conjugate the French verb […]
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I’m going loopy, methinks. OK. Meknows. Titus Andronicus Act 1 Scene 1 line 136 : The self-same gods that arm’d the Queen of Troy. What the…? What Queen of Troy. The clue is revealed 2 lines later with “Thracian tyrant.” Aha. That’d be Hecuba then. Then I read the annotation at the end of the […]
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When I took youngest to the hospital t’other day, I did a Time & Motion study before we set off. A certain town is exactly half way between us and Lincoln and I had a bit of shopping to do. So rather than take him there, take him home, get back in the car and […]
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I blame my Mother! Helen Shapiro was 14 when this song became a hit.
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