“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.”
My own personal Dangerous Brian is VERY OCD about cars. He is our go to when we need a cheap new/old car and he has NEVER let us down. He brings us the new/old car in pristine condition. All the way from South Wales. Clean as…and always with this air freshener hanging inside!!! Way back […]
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We have all fallen for those adverts. In a house with three men who like to smell nice, quite a bit of money was once spent on Lynx Deodorant for men. But as money is now very tight, they’ve been stealing my girly deodorant. Why? Because it doesn’t sting their armpits and it smells good. […]
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I’m having a Very Stupid day today :o( Amongst the cheap plants that I bought the other day in the clearance sale from the garden centre down the hill were two limp Artemisia dracunculus. I had no idea what they were but felt sorry for them. Aaah. Anyhoo : I’ve just learned the other names […]
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Yes. I admit it. I threw a right old Paddy this morning. And kicked out at the nettles behind the old pig-sty. Bastard Nettles. And then…I suddenly smelled Chocolate Mint. Then oranges. Yummy Distraction. Way No Way. The chocolate and -AND – the orange mint that I’d planted there about 8 years ago were still […]
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You’ll probably not remember this! GB : 14th of May 2020. Heirloom Seeds. Many of the seeds that I planted last year in the cast iron gutters lying abandoned at the back of the stable, chucked on bits of waste ground etc were biennial seeds. I knew what I was doing but still kept my […]
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BEESWAX I used to be able to buy blocks of beeswax in town but this wonderful shop closed and is now a COSTALOT Coffee. Not the point. Or is it? I used to buy Mason and Kilner Jars there too for my lime pickles, chutneys, jams etc. NOT the point. Get on with it , […]
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There is only one Incense product that I have used for the last 25 years. Satya Sai Baba Nagchampa Incense Sticks. A few weeks back, on Mother’s Day, my boys gave me an Amazon Coupon. So I bought three boxes of the Californian White Sage in the image above. Each box contains 12 boxes of […]
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Seeing Keith Floyd in the Kenny Everett video yesterday gave me the idea for tea today. As did the gale force winds and driving rain. We need GOOD WARMING FOOD. I’d love to say that I cooked from scratch but I didn’t. I cheated by going to Tesco. Heyho. We used to have an office […]
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A doorstop (aka a very thick slice)of Freshly Baked Bread, either raw or toasted. Lashings of Salted Butter and a Mahoosive layer of Dundee Marmalade. Droooool. But more than that – it has been far too many years since I’ve had a marmalade making day. I’m loving this lass. She has a onsies too. And […]
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An article that I wrote about 15 years ago is still being used in schools world-wide today. It was about scent and the Middle Ages. All these years later I’m still studying the subject. The book above is interesting – not least because I now place the “Ancient Romans & Greeks” on a different timeline […]
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Kyphi From the age of 21, when I first came across Leslie Kenton via her books, I’ve been obsessed with Fragrance/Perfume/Aromatherapy/The Sense of Smell. The books I now own are multiple and somewhat peculiar. They cover centuries of time. A legion of famous historical figures. Almost every scented plant known. And the strange connection between […]
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I’m burning all the sage that I have left :o)
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Hidden History Research 