“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.”
LINKS! OK. Confession. I fell for IT too. THE F1RST EVER winner of Who Wants to be a Squillionaire :o( One Foot In The Grave star Richard Wilson has said ITV “planned” Monday night’s Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? jackpot win. Judith Keppel’s £1m win on Millionaire beat the final episode of the BBC One sitcom, which saw the death […]
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It’s been years since I googled myself. But I did that today. OH MY WHAAAAAT! Not only am I quoted in the bibliography of a WWW published book called A Curious History of SEX (!) by Kate Lister. I am STILL on the National Curriculum of schools/museums in Australia. Oooh. Erm. Oh! Eeeek? P.S. I […]
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Mmmn. The coat has turned out better than I expected. I knitted the collar and trimmed the entire garment with reverse single crochet in a very pale beige/coffee PURE wool/silk yarn. It’s now been washed (again) and set on the dummy to do it’s own thang. I love this part of the process. Zero stress […]
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God’s Honest Truth – Last night I was listening to the book above and then, today, THIS is uploaded!!! There is a link between them :o) Clue : Sticky or Water Soluble!
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I believe that this is what’s called a Self-Inflicted Wound. When is a Celt not a Celt? When he knows SFA about Celtic History…or any HISTORY. And insists on damning his own ancestors (by a different name) of the Most Heinous Crimes Imaginable. When he spouts the i & j 1000 year “theory” but refuses […]
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I’d bet that most people in the UK have heard about Broadmoor Prison/Hospital. Few know about it’s history though. And fewer understand (!?) Like so many similar Enormous, Elaborate buildings in this country, it was built in the second half of the 19th century…as an ASYLUM! Gordon Bennett – we must’ve had so many #MAD […]
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Me/Myself/I have been playing a little game called see title above. If I was to host a huge Dinner Party who would be on my guest list. OK. 1. Ken Bran 2. Garbo 3. Will Shakespeare 4. Marie de Rohan 5. Sherlock Holmes 6. Mary Shelley 7. Robbie Williams 8. Elizabeth Bathory 9. Caravaggio 10. […]
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IN DECEMBER 1926 Agatha Christie disappeared in bizarre circumstances from her home in southern England. The discovery of the crime writer’s abandoned car led to the biggest manhunt in British history for a missing person. Eleven days later she was found in a northern spa town claiming to be the victim of amnesia. Until the […]
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It’s only taken almost 2 years but, FINALLY, someone with the wherewithal to help actually believes every single word that I’ve said about being targeted by a specific gang of yt HATERS, THIEVES & LIARS. Thank you. But – not to sound too ungrateful – I have already LOST all public credibility, my home is […]
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A purist would pronounce Alcazaba with a “Castilian Lisp.” It was from watching Agua Cadaver that I found out what an Alca-th-aba really was. And I’ve spent all my visits to Spain in the al-Andalus region…….! Rosemary and Laura are invited to a place near Málaga, Spain to “do-over” the garden of one of Rosemary’s […]
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I half watched a yt video today that made me spit feathers!!! It mentioned Iolo Morganwg and then dismissed him straight away with the very long-running MS History sentence…“but he faked every antiquarian document he used.” I beg to differ! No surprise there. If you don’t know already, I’ve spent many years researching 11th/12th cc […]
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I was watching this and the name Nellie Bly kept bugging me. Then I had an AHA! moment. Of course. Tut! By The Pricking of my Thumbs : Agatha Christie. There’s a character called Nellie Bligh. This Nellie in the video below was either Very Brave or Extremely Crazy (?!)
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Hidden History Research 