“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.”
Spent many a childhood hour in all winds and weathers on this beach. Fascinating rock pools :o) Although my far ancestors were from the Highland and Islands, my Dad was born and bred in the Royal Kingdom of Fife. It was all because of the Act of Proscription! The family were half an hour or […]
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aka I don’t understand My boys loved Dexter’s Lab. We rescued a tiny black cat and called her DeeDee. Why – in my world – is a black cat loved and considered lucky? Yet… Across the “pond” black cats are evil (?) We nursed her through epilepsy. She was beautiful. Bruja?
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Many light years ago, I used to be Obi Wan Tetris. Today…a box of boxes has defeated me. Or Has It? May the Force be WITH Me…….after my girlie tantrum! :o)
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Wiki : Harald Charles Darwin bores me at the best of times. So I’ve decided to go back to my past as a novelist. During the years of research for Ravens of Dinefwr, I fell completely head-over-heels for a Norwegian King. Magnus Barelegs. Trust me. This’ll make sense —- eventually. Magnus was the grandson […]
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A couple of days ago, I was – unexpectedly – sent a link by someone whose work I admire very much. Thank you. It is leading me further down this language path. I Love it :o) Let’s start here: From archaeology.org (Where you can hear this language spoken!) Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European By […]
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Wiki : Etruscan Alphabet Several years ago, Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett (Forensic Historians) translated some Etruscan (Tartarian) script using the Coelbren (Bardic/Ancient Welsh) alphabet. Funny old world :o)
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Oh. For pity’s sake. One step forward, a thousand years back. Wiki : Karanovo VI–Gumelniţa–Kodžadermen But I’m still in the right geographical area. Happy Day. Let’s Waltz :o)
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3 million hectares! Putin sends military to fight Siberia forest fires Russian president reacts as 3m hectares burn and state of emergency covers five regions A jet prepares to pour water on to a forest fire in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Photograph: AP The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has called in the army to fight the […]
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Day 3 or 5 or something and, I’ve got to the end of Page 4 of a 50 page document. Progress. Yay. Ur, no. Not really. I now have 7 wiki pages to read (just to check the BS factor) and another 65 page document. Who’s brilliant idea was it to try and make sense […]
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Same as Sherlock said….
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From NC: “In 1929, the famous Russian linguist M.N. Speransky published a mysterious inscription of nine lines, which he found on the flyleaf – a sheet next to the binding – books of the XVII century. The scientist considered the inscription “totally unbreakable”: there were Cyrillic letters in the record, but they alternated with […]
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