“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.”
Death of a Gossip was M.C. Beaton’s F1RST Hamish Macbeth book. FEB is named. “What’s this? Men’s lib?” Daphne slid her arm into his and they left the lounge together. Alice stood stock still, biting her lip. “I told you you were wasting your time.” Lady Jane’s large bulk hove up on Alice’s port side. […]
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Today is my late father’s birthday. David Samuel Greig is his name. FACT! He’d be so freaking annoyed beyond annoyed to know that his name has been stolen to make a youtoobia channel that comments BS on FEB amongst other channels. See image above. Today is also the anniversary of the day that I lead […]
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I know of Herbert Rowse Armstrong through the Drama Series Dandelion Dead. Ray Loynd, writing for the Los Angeles Times, called the series “full of rich atmosphere, ripe characters and black humour”. He noted that “The movie’s real accomplishment is in catching the fabric of a whole town, almost in the manner of a Victorian novel.” […]
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Quotes: “Just like ALL the history. Invented since 1850.” “But we have to go back further but, of course, we cannot really trust that information very well.” “Something that is recorded in MOST cultures, if not EVERY culture” “Would it be something that you were made a fool of because it was a hoax?” “Vampiric […]
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We watched this one this morning. Chapter 4? It’s called Wilding, anyhoo. JC digs a pond. Then another one. Gets stuck in the mud. Builds a dam (that leaks a lot.) Ignores the uk.gov. wildlife inspectors. Has Caleb with tractor and Caleb’s brother, with tractor, help him pull his tractor (which is connected to a […]
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Sad to say – I know too much about this Lucy! FACT. 1897. Bram Stoker. GB’s Hidden History Analyses of Vlad, Voivode Drăculești from the House of Basarab. See many previous posts. Lucy the Bloofer Lady who likes sucking on children is my focus today. I’ll start with Sheffield Gothic…as I am NOT a Psychic […]
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He doesn’t know if the pencil-tangles carved in the walls were upside down or not. I tried to explain this… Apparently we are going there at midnight one dark and stormy night. I’ll have a box of matches and a candle and my ipad. He’ll be in the car, down the road, eating a midnight […]
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Himself has been working by here today. Apparently, he’s taken tons of photos for me to look at. His best line was one stolen from Eddie and Ritchie in Bottom : There’s loads of pencil-tangles in here. Translated as PEN-tacles. Well, love. That’ll be why it’s called THE DEMON CHURCH. Yes? He called them PAGANS. […]
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Nightingales are extremely rare in the UK for many reasons. Mainly bad land management and the destruction of the green and growing for concrete and brick. And : Less Coppicing Birds are strongly affected by the three-dimensional structure of woodland. Coppicing is an ancient form of woodland management or ‘woodsmanship’, which was traditional from the […]
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This is a kind of Heavy Jon Creek episode. About murder, eugenics, magicians, innocence destroyed and ye olde ladder lean aka Pythagoras. PLOT : Set five years after the previous episode, “Gorgons Wood”, “The Grinning Man” begins by introducing the Gothic mansion Metropolis. Since 1938, a number of visitors staying overnight in the mansion’s attic […]
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My Mum was a whizz at this dish. It was a Saturday Tea Treat throughout my childhood. Then when I went back to the land of my birth – Singapore- and tasted their Nasi Goreng. I was stunned. But it was about 3 am and we had spent several hours in Raffles Hotel. TRUE! TRUTH! […]
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There are a VERY few people that I Truly Envy. In the true meaning of the word ENVY : a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else’s possessions, qualities, or luck. Maybe just two. This feeling has nothing to do with jealousy or hatred or anything negative. It’s more of a wistful […]
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