“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.”
Last year…or maybe the year before, Richard D Hall mentioned (just one sentence) something that has disturbed me ever since. It might’ve been in his show about the strange murder of Jill Dando. In just a few words he connected the unexpected death of Jill with the unexpected death of Rik Mayall. The link….Ritual Child […]
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Oooh. Well over a decade and a bit ago, Leslie Kenton put me through Shamanic Training 101. The first was a wolf. The second was a crow. She stopped after lesson 1. With the words…….“You are soooooo like me. Natural.” An extraordinary practical guide book by the UK’ s leading health writer, explaining how our […]
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No. I’m not. I am just an ordinary person who was born into this energy and grew up with it. It was not until I was in my 20’s that I realised that there was a name for people like this. People who I have found myself sharing space with again…and again………AND AGAIN! Any mother […]
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Well. I had a word with the wildlife and they just laughed at me. So – I had lots of words with the hoomans hereabouts. The result…..Humane Mole Traps. 2 outta 4 of us were DISGUSTED by the sight of ………… Anyway. MOLES ARE CUTE :o)
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I got a letter yesterday that sent me stratospheric. It concerns a property that I bought years ago – that is connected to my late mother. This morning I rang the number and failed at the first hurdle. The secretary of the writer of said letter. #Gatekeeper? I’m meant to wait for the govdot BS […]
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Rosa Canina Decades ago, virtually every hedgerow in the UK had a Wild Dog Rose growing. Nowadays, especially around here, they are quite rare. Something that has always surprised me because I’m surrounded by farmland. Anyway – this is the interloper that I found in my sadly neglected raspberry run the other day. And the […]
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Yesterday I was given a handful of copper nails. I’d always thought this an old wives’ tale but our local council use them every day. Mmmmn. I wonder if they’ll work on Giant Hogweed :o)
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Read MoreYup. For the first year I’ve got (in at least two places) 12 to 15 foot tall plants. They are pretty. But……further investigation is very much needed. Phyto/Photo – Toxic ? Oh. Craptacular. I’ve just warned everyone hereabouts :o(
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YepWiki : Ian Fleming I suggest you read up about Fleming ? ! In my humble opinion, Ian Fleming did more damage to several generations of men (&women) than any other modern writer. The Child Catcher ? James Bond ? He loved cold, twisted, Underground, lonely, single, emotionless, Action Men. His influence on Dorothy Dunnett, […]
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OK. Someone caught outta the aether MY family’s running joke about ME – (pun intended) I can usually get of the bottom of the drive and say…..STOP, I need a wee! But….BUT….I can impress everyone around me with the UNDENIABLE FACT that I have travelled from here, to Paris (over 10 hours in the car) […]
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OK. SO. All I wanted to do was go to my Kindle books and take a screenshot of the page where I wrote about Buckingham laying a single tulip at Anne’s feet. Guess What I find ? The book that took me many years to write (the F1RST Draft was over a million words, so […]
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