“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.”
We can go many ways with this one. T’PAU…UAP’T In my day this bridge was called The Potsdam Bridge They must’ve been short of men one particular day because I was the Oppo (Opposite Number/WingMan) in the car that day. We escorted someone from somewhere into West Berlin over the Bridge of Spies. God’s Fricking […]
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GB 5th March 2019 : Royal House of Georgia Tamar (Queen of Queens) was the granddaughter of David IV -The Builder – King of Kings. OK. What does a builder need to do before he builds? Lay SOLID foundations (?) The House of Georgia, in my humble opinion, is a VITAL link in the New […]
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Right from before the beginning of “the stupid” I had my own thoughts on what was happening to the world. The Welsh part of the fam rarely talk to me now. I’ve always got…“You think your thoughts and allow us to think ours.” Which REALLY means – Shut Up. We refuse to listen to YOU! […]
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Waaaaay Back in ’95/96 I wrote a paper (helped by a weapons expert!) asking for the “powers that be” in FCO at Whitehall to allow the Secret Unit in a Secret Place in Hampshire to use Minimi across the world. NO. NOT THAT ONE ABOVE! Fluff’s Sake. Fortunately – said paper made it all the […]
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It’s mine own fault really :o( For falling madly in love with a Medieval (Viking) Norwegian King called Magnus (Barelegs) Olafsson. You’ve gotta love the name of his sword. When he wasn’t shooting arrows into Norman Earl’s eyes, he was hamstringing his enemies with a weapon called Legbiter. He came back to bite me. Tut. […]
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OMGiddy DNA! I’m so excited. I’ve just found out that I have Crawford in my DNA!!!! COUSINS Maybe not the fictional Francis Crawford of Lymond. VOTED ONE OF BRITAIN’S FAVOURITE HISTORICAL NOVELS Before George R. R. Martin there was Dorothy Dunnett . . . PERFECT for fans of A Game of Thrones. ‘She is a brilliant story teller, The […]
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Well. So. As I’ve been saying forever now – certain people are only too happy to stalk and steal from here. Yesterday’s video with May and Hammond playing with Lego produced Lego mentions in the usual yukky places. What I loved most about that video was the moment when James May was asked the question…”Who […]
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Tomorrow is Bonfire Night here in the UK. Ever since I was a child, baking potatoes in the Bonfire in Scotland, I’ve LOVED this night. Have y’all watched the show below? Kit Harington agreed to do this because of his ANCESTORS. One of them being called Catesby. And his mother (a Catesby) named him after […]
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Amber is one of my favourite gemstones. A study of this tree resin is quite interesting. Also the study of ambergris! Forget the BS timelines here… AMBER And(maybe) wonder about the mysteries here… Amber Room There’s more to trees than meets the eye?
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An article that I wrote about 15 years ago is still being used in schools world-wide today. It was about scent and the Middle Ages. All these years later I’m still studying the subject. The book above is interesting – not least because I now place the “Ancient Romans & Greeks” on a different timeline […]
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I rarely connect to my FB account but did today to wish my BFF a Happy Birthday and found…a dm from my brother! He’d been contacted by one of my old school friends (male) who was asking about me and if I remembered sneaking into the music room at lunch times to listen to records. […]
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I have such a deep love for marbled paper that I taught myself how to do it…on the cheap! Ordinary paper. Ordinary marbling paints and a cat litter tray (brand new!!) One day I WILL learn how to do it properly :o) I’ve always been a sucker for books with marbled endpapers or covers. Happy […]
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