New Word of the Day : Catfishing
CATfishing Coming from a family of fishermen, I had NO IDEA what the modern meaning for this word was. But I do now. OMG. Sooooooo Many (Fake) Names….So little Interest :o)
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Loving My Job!
I am SO Lucky. Very few people get to spend their days doing the things that they absolutely LOVE doing. I’m forever grateful! The past four days have been lived with a thought in the back of my mind… …OK. So WHEN are “they” going to turn up? I start working this morning and the […]
Read MoreOrlando Furiouso
I’ve always loved the title of this poem :o) It’s about Swords and Sorcery and Carlos Magnus/Charles the Great/Charlemagne. So much to do, so little time – this came as a side-note to my recent research and I’ve yet to fully figure out why. Could it be the Canto below? ? ? Roland, who long […]
Read MoreThe Hidden World of the Harem
I have written about this subject before. GB 14th Feb 2020 : Harem It’s one of those things that never fails to make my blood boil! I wasn’t called Militant Millie for nothing. MS History like that in the video below has, in my humble opinion, done MUCH to ruin, silence, victimise the female half […]
Read MoreWhy Does It Always Rain On Me?
Autumn is here! A couple of months back I paid three arms, both livers and several little grey cells to have our Victorian Cast Iron gutters cleared and repaired! It’s rained almost all day today and said gutters have spurted leaks again. The worst is right above the back door. So whenever you walk out/in […]
Read MoreSoulMates : Fact or Fiction
I didn’t want to do this for Very Private Reasons but…I was told to just go with the flow and, maybe, bring solace to someone else! Every cell in me believes in “re-incarnation.” Not the way we’ve been MSMedia fed the “facts”… but from MY OWN PERSONAL Real, True Life Experience. ALL MY LIFE I’ve […]
Read MoreDYER
Oh. Erm. OK. I’ve said before that one of the names from my Maternal Norfolk Line was Dyer. We will close over the MS History of Amelia Dyer (such a common name!) This vid has sooo many crazy, bizarre, inexplicable links for me that I’ve gone totally Bats in the Belfry :o( P.S. I always […]
Read MoreRemembering Miss Woodhouse
She was our English Language/Literature teacher – way back when. Poor woman. She must’ve been in her early/mid 20’s when she encountered our class! OMG…and she had a temper. I remember the time she broke into Middle English, reciting Chaucer to a group of 11/12 years olds and we all tittered mightily. Our bad :o( […]
Read MoreThe Nine Worthies
The Nine Worthies were : Jewish – King David, Joshua the Patriarch and Judas Maccabeus Pagan – Hector of Troy, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar Christian – Charlemagne, King Arthur, Godfrey of Bouillon There are many renditions of these characters but it’s believed that they first appeared in picture form in 1312. I’m intrigued […]
Read MoreJudge Not Lest Ye Be Judged
Proverb : If you judge or condemn someone else, you stand to be judged or condemned according to the same standard; do not judge unsympathetically or hypocritically. Judge not, lest ye be judged.” I have been judged – multiple times – and found guilty E V E R Y S I N G L E T I M E. But…for what crime? MY Holier-Than-Thou judges […]
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The Red-Headed League
Read MoreD’Este. Sforza. Visconti.
There is something rotten in the History of Italy. I first came across the image above a veeeeery long time ago when researching my novel. It’s the coat of arms of Hercule de Rohan-Montbazon. Hercule was the father of Marie de Rohan, the MC of Weave a Garland of my Vows. Check out – The […]
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