“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.”
If you’ve been here from the beginning, you may know that I have my own opinions about “Gypsies.” MY thoughts and opinions come from KNOWING, talking to, Real Romany Gypsies who can trace their families back many generations. I’ve always had a great deal of respect for them. I told a story recently about someone […]
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When I bought Dangerous Brian this book as his Christmas Present in the early ’90’s, he gave me an anti-Aids kiss! The pages of The Diary of Jack the Ripper reveal the unimaginable – that over a century ago, the legendary serial killer at work in London’s Whitechapel kept a record of his bestial mutilations […]
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OMG! Who’d’ve thunk that a life time spent reading literature would be SO relevant for ME today? The Fall of the House of Usher Roderick BURIES his TWIN sister ALIVE! LMFAO :o)
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So THE THEY say – Is full of murderers. I need to get back in contact with Lily. My paternal Grandmother who was born and bred in the Gorbals of Glasgow. She had two brothers. Both policemen. Eeeeeeek. Crime REEL. THIS is why I call myself a peasant! My Scottish Nan was Born and Bred […]
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I will NOT go into the real life story of exactly who used this nom de plume when……….ZIP! But my children bear the same name. surname could be from “‘the son of Odo‘ from the nickname Oddy, sometimes Hoddy, whence Odson or……! It’s a common name in Wales. Taken from their father and grandfather and…..maybe (?) […]
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I read this book many years ago and it still haunts me :o( Richly gripping, nonoccult thriller about telepathic twins- -from the author of Bella Mafia (1991) and writer of the much- acclaimed British PBS series Prime Suspect. Ruda and Rebecca as children were subjects of experiments in telepathy by Dr. Josef Mengele at the […]
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In my entire life, I’ve yet to meet a Normal Person who will wilfully quote tracts of the Bible at me. Even though an “acclaimed” version of said book is named after one of OUR monarchs. KJV. WE just DO NOT do this. We are a Christian country. We understand the Bible. BUT – we […]
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I’ve just half watched something that set me on one of those (for me, usual) research quests. And I came across something very unexpected! A Gest of Robyn Hode Not only was I sent back to Middle English again, but also to Wentbridge, Yorkshire. Way, no way, cried I. Robin came from Nottingham. Sherwood Forest. […]
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This is a real life (!?)Jacobean Revenge Tragedy wrought by a 9 year old girl.
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Y’all have The BEST Laughs ever – at MY demise. In MY end is MY beginning :o) Guess who’s laughing now ? ? ? What goes around, comes around. #KARMA #DancesWithWolves #FalseFakeFoney #ENDEX #NOTNEEDEDWANTED
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Guess what I’ll be re-re-re-listening to tonight! Because I’m SURROUNDED BY THEM – Both HISS&HERS And If I shout SNAKES & BASTARDS one more time today……….!
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As a kid I visited this shop every day. Since we moved back here I’ve visited this shop thousands of times. Last year the original family sold their shop to a family from Colombo, Ceylon/Sri Lanka. #Controversial? The new owners are lovely. Whenever I go in now I’m greeted with… …Good Morning, Madame. I reply… […]
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