Beyond A Care

10 or so years ago – without a single clue but – with some arcane knowledge passed down, I planted the roses in my garden….quite well, apparently! Early bloomers. Summer Bloomers. Late Bloomers. I know the seasons have all gone mental but I don’t care. I’m picking my roses again. Shoot – the scent in […]

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The V CODE ?

I thought I’d misheard so I went back to the beginning of Mr Igan’s latest video and put the subtitles on. Yup. The NEW @V Code. Ouch. Hurty from falling off the chair laughing so hard :o) #Justice

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Hugelkultur

Wow! Love it. I’ve never, ever heard of this one before. So – I had to investigate. hugulkultur Well. Yes. That makes sense. Especially as a few days ago we had storm force winds and my garden is now LITTERED with so many very untidy and annoying blown off twigs and branches and etc that […]

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SNAKES & BASTARDS

I just had this impulse to shout out Agatha Raisin’s Fave saying. Why? Tourette’s? Work it out, peeps :o) I’m surrounded by snakes and bastards (?!?)

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80 Years Minus 10 Days Later (?)

As in : 31st August 1888 >>>>>>>>21st August 1968. A leap in place and time from London to Firenze (a place SO HIGH on my list of “places to visit before I die”) Does History Repeat ? ? ? WTF?

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Brilliant Insights

I knew absolutely Zero about the Dalton Minimum etc until I started watching Static last year. I’m still unclear about the science but I do know a little bit about history. SO MANY dates line up here. Thank You, Mr SitA for the research and the BRILLIANT weaving together of historical and “right-in-front-of-our-eyes-today” Truths :o)

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I Have Been Ordered…

…by the powers that love me. To stop “knocking my pipe out” and rest. Thank you, says I. I’ll sit at the kitchen table and watch a series (made from the late Ruth Rendell novels, starring a man whom, if I’d met him many decades before I was born, I might’ve “knocked my pipe out” […]

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Peace & Quiet

From my earliest memory, I’ve always asked, pleaded, begged for peace and quiet. Now I have it. Freaked out, moi? OK. Default, programmed mode for a moment. Manuel’s in Charge :o)

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HeatStroke

I’ve just mutilated a Holly Tree and about 1 hundreth of a Hazelnut Tree (one year I’ll dang well get them hazels before the fecking squibbles who just bury them all over the lawn!!!) in the blazing sun with my bran new long-handled Wilkinson Shears. Very satisfying but… …Feeling a bit fizzy now :o( Catching […]

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Knock, Knock.

Who’s there? Friend or Foe? So, you’ve knocked on my back door and I’ve let you in. Turn right and you’ll see the image above. An old pew rescued from Tattershall Church when the philistines ripped them all out and replaced them with hard back chairs! A home made quilt (with Kaffe Fassett mad and […]

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Where There Is Muck, There Is GOLD!

Teeth gritted every single time I see this channel recommended. No Offence but……? Anyways and by the by…May 25th 1551…the South of England had an earthquake. Or did it?

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