“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.”
I drove down this road countless times en route to do a 12 hour stint/duty at Tiergarten. The office was right between the Brandenburger Tor and the Reichstag. Fond memories of Russian conscripts going through MY gates to guard their Soviet War Memorial. I opened the gates. They smiled and waved :o) BTW – I […]
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Read Jane Eyre? It’s a story of abandonment, abuse, secrets and lies!
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Oh, dear. I seem to have got myself in a right old pickle here! After days of being trapped in Florence with the Medici, I’ve suddenly found out why. “Our explanation of the dispute between Florence and Rome. As we already understand, the “ancient dispute” between the Italian Rome and the Etruscans must be the […]
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Nothing to see here. Apart from the fact that I seem to be stuck in Italy with a load of Renaissance artists…..Woohooo :o) The image above is by Giotto. It’s called Stultitia. And is in a fresco painted in about 1303 in the Chapel above. What do YOU see? This image is represented in the […]
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I’ve known about this story for a very long time. Watching the video about Kaiser Wilhelm reminded me of “The Family” and what they do to hide their own flesh and blood! Check out : JBL And Betty’s cousins. What a #lovely Fam THEY are. NOT!
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Can’t Comment. Won’t Comment. Not my Era of Expertise! Apart from Sherlock and Jack and ……..!
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And here is why I NEED to go to Florence. A feast for all my senses. Aaaah :o)
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This is another MUST SEE place on my list! Palazzo della Ragione, Padua Those frescoes – Schwoon :o) One of the frescoes is the image below. Who is she? LOOK AGAIN! Yup. She looks very much like Mary and the Holy Child but she’s NOT! In a Catholic country, in the 15th century, Venus and […]
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To my eternal shame – I’ve lost my rolling R. Can’t do it any more :o( #FakeScot? I blame my English DNA…. (!)
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I have neither the Time nor the Energy to go back here, right now. Been there. Done that. A Looooong time ago. But I WILL re-read. Clueage aboundeth… …When MY Time & Energy are not being sucked out by – !
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Many moons ago we used to watch this show. Sacré bleu, mon braves! Anyone who has been “programmed” to think that the French lack humour………WTF? Jean Paul Gaultier is a seriously SERIOUS Fashion Designer. Sheesh. He’d never, ever try to be funny. FACT! Oh. MY Bad :o(
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I don’t think that I have ever truly revealed this before but… … I chose the image for my novel with great deliberation after learning about this major ART controversy decades ago. Diego Velázquez painting – And the ART vs HISTORY collision came from – I feel that this is a portrait of Marie. She WAS […]
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