“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.”
Eldest and I were talking about this in the car this morning! I said : I might watch Victor Meldrew as I’m cooking tea. Him : When was the last time you watched Lovejoy? Remember? When I bought you the full boxset for your birthday? Me : Best Birthday Present EVER. I watched all 70 […]
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Silver Bells. Cockle Shells. I love this episode of Poirot for several (Russian??) reasons. Unfortunately yt will only show the crappy crap below. M’eh I even have an original 1935 magazine that premiered this Agatha Christie short story. OCD? Moi?
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Sorry :o( You’ll understand if you watch the video below. I’ve always loved Cardoon. So huge. Sculptural. Impressive. And I have a bunch of seeds ready for next year. Cardoon is also known as the Artichoke Thistle. Mmmmmn. Link (?!) As I’ve never eaten an artichoke, I’ll be growing these for their beauty first…and then […]
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There is a little known source hidden amongst all the Arthurian literature that has fascinated me for a long time. It’s an octosyballic verse – and quite convoluted. Many things intrigue me. Not least the story of it’s “discovery.” In 1911, a crate was opened in a house in Nottingham, UK and the script was […]
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The image above is an intro to Vol 1 of Neil Sanders’ book of the same name. The video below is Neil Sanders talking to Richard D Hall. And in between…Do NOT be fooled by the the RichPlanet Tag (?!) Richard D Hall
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Roger Bore. Move on. Not an Ian Fleming HERO. IMHumbleO Carly Simon. Singing. Yay And – how could I have forgotten this one? Shame on me! Wikyuk : George Baker George. Baker. Inspector. Wexford. In… The Spy who Loved Me. I had NO I-deer that he was born in Varna, Bulgaria. SMH. P.S. I may […]
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You might know – by now – that I am NOT a fan of this crew. but…But…BUT (?)
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Hey. Peeps! Do not EVER try to imprison ME. I’ve been breaking out of JAIL my whole life. Started in the cot. Mum used to find me sleeping underneath it! I’m just stunned that y’all are still trying to LOCK ME DOWN. Your/You’re bad :o)
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Yes. A mess. But, in my defence, only half the disorder is mine. The room has been taken over by others as an office :o( #DoNOTShootTheMessenger?
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I’ve never claimed to be perfect. GB : 2nd June 2020 I have FINALLY got all my Kindle books back. Gritted teeth vibe. Only to find out that I’d made a mistake in the post linked above. It wasn’t a single tulip. It was a bunch of tulips. SMH. But I did write that scene […]
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GB : A Personal Message from ME to AB Read the above and you MIGHT guess why MY hours and hours and hours of research into Part Two of this : GB. 18th March 2019 : Hidden History of the Cathars – Part One Never came to be posted. Something STOLE MY WORK (and the […]
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OK. So! I’ll bank this in the vast vault of “things that I never knew.” Did Conan Doyle KNOW this story and use it to create HIS “Napoleon of Crime” aka Jim Moriarty ? ? ?
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Hidden History Research 