Papermaking’s Mysterious 700 Years of Secrecy

“I’m enjoying the schadenfreude where the physical medium becomes the real history instead of the fake history written upon it…” (Timothy Cullen).     PAPERMAKING’S MYSTERIOUS 700 YEARS OF SECRECY

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Lawless and Immoral

Staying close to home today. A town nearby is a small market town, a bit run down, a bit ordinary, a bit boring. But… …it has a fascinating history and a few famous sons and daughters.   It’s known as a “Roman” town. The library is built around a “Roman” wall.     A few […]

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Bolingbroke Castle

The ruins of Bolingbroke Castle is a handful of miles away. I’ve visited often and used to sit on the stones there, daydreaming! Local legend says that it was destroyed by Oliver Cromwell in the 17th C – the site of the Battle of Winceby is close by.     Bolingbroke was the birthplace of […]

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Sitting Quietly

OK. Maybe I’m just weird. That has been said many-a-time…..and soooooo much more. M’eh. I don’t “do” this kinda stuff shown in the video. Ever. I just sit quietly. In the quiet. And trust the Divine. Sacred is sacred. Faith is faith. Private is private. Jason A – great video again. Thank you  :o)

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“Most Sacrilegious Murder…” said by MacDuff

I’ve always been more of a Baconian than an Oxfordian. Then they threw in Mary Sidney and the whole ‘Who wrote Shakespeare?’ argument started again. I’m soooo over that now. All I know is – whoever wrote the plays was a Genius. With a capital Gee! I especially love Macbeth…..The Scottish Play. NC have done […]

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Children of the Mist

A little walk into the Scottish Highlands ;o) “Scottish poet and author Sir Walter Scot called them “The Children of the Mist.” This was a fitting name for a people who from 1488 to 1775 (1775? What a coincidence!!!)  were stripped of all rights as Scottish citizens, and had to avoid all areas of population. […]

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Legendary Damascene Steel

Original Damascus Steel is beautiful and coveted, supposedly ancient and legendary and now a lost knowledge. It’s manufacture is strongly linked with Syria (it’s in the name!) but did you know that the Cossacks were famous for their Damascus Steel swords, sabres, shields and chain-mail armour? The Cossacks had a fearsome reputation. Their weapons could […]

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9) The Language Reset

Not all RESETS were huge, physical catastrophes. Some were much more subtle. And insidious – “gradually and secretly causing harm.” The last two posts about language were necessary because, to my mind, one of the greatest, invisible manipulations has been the LANGUAGE RESET. This is a subject that I intend to cover in depth (when […]

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Place Royale, Paris

On my last trip to Paris…I’ve talked about it before. Got mugged. most of time spent in British Consulate etc etc…on MY list of things to see was the Place Royale. Why? Because I (thought I) knew that Marie de Rohan had once lived there in the 17th century, cheek by jowl with Cardinal Richelieu […]

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