And Her Eyes Were Wild & No Birds Sing

POETS DAY Y’all should know what that means by now (?) I am sooooo beyond disgusted by a recent live (puke) chat that I stoooopidly buttinski’d into. (SMH. Slap my wrist. STFU, GB. My BAD!) That I’ve rescued my uncontrollable ire at the rampant BS in Keats. La Belle Dame Sans Merci – The Beautiful […]

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SPELLS BacKFiRe When Used for Black Magick

This is to the “one & only” dipshit who cast a Black Magick Death Spell on a TRUE HIGHLANDER. Evidence provided by the Kajillions here at gretabrookesauthor.com I KNOW who I AM. I KNOW where I come from. Welcome to a MAJOR LESSON IN KARMA & What IT TRULY is. What goes around, Comes around. […]

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Programmed. Holly. Aids. Vampires. Tar. Feather. M’eh!

I’m NOT gonna play this. Goodbye. Obscene to Relax (?) How about MY Vibe via Holly Johnson and an Amazeballs toon ? ? ? And to the HATERS – Carry ON hating. AMEST I BOVVERED :o) Tar Tar Tweety Pie! P.S. A FAVE IRA punishment (or so they say) Wiki : Tar & Feather   […]

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Burning Bridges

If you are gonna BURN YOUR BRIDGES – just fucking (pardon my french) BURN them says I. NO GOING BACK.   Much like Les Tourelles at Orléans.  That kind of set back the Siege a bit. Stoooopid Wooden Bridges. I know my Jehanne. Love her to pieces!

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Godred Crovan (died 1095), known in Gaelic as Gofraid Crobán, Gofraid Meránach, and Gofraid Méránach

Wiki  : Godred Crovan   Oh my Giddy Aunt. MAJOR download just came in!!! I’ve spent ages researching Godred Crovan. Viking. Ireland. Isle of Man etc etc. He has Always attracted me. I was sooooo pissed off when I learned that he’d died before 1098 – when my novel (in progress?) Ravens of Dinefwr starts. […]

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Writer’s Block

Viking Dragonship

I wrote this first draft of Chapter One’s beginning almost 2 years ago. I’ve not moved on since. Time to revisit MY Ravens ?   Chapter 1 Dublin August 1100 Dubh Linn lay wary and waiting around the Ostman trader now that the oars were shipped, ropes thrown and knotted, sail slack. Still, black waters. […]

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Reedham, Norfolk

Wiki : Reedham    My maternal family come from here. Though both my Mum and her Mum (Nan) were born in Norwich, the extended family were all born in the “village” as it was. We went there several times when I was a child. Renting a tiny house a a few doors away from Nan’s […]

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Colchester

Okely Dokely. If y’all know your MS History, y’all know who is most Famoooosely connected with Colchester. Manda Scott wrote a series of books about her (Boudicca???)  – and her female lover! Read ’em ALL. Passing over that and getting back to reality. My bruv, Iain, is a Policetype person whose HQ is Colchester. My […]

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16th Dec 2019

Greta Brookes : If I Go Down   And – puhleasies – do NOT come at me and say that you were never warned. FAF = Fake as Feck =Funny as Fluff = Fishy and Foney = Fall and Fail = Flat and Finite = Fissy as Fony – nicians = Fun as Flip = […]

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