URBEX

I’m in NO WAY tooting my own floot but… …I think this Urbex Genre is well overdue for an updated format! Gimme the tools, the like-minded mates and a bit of cash and……………Woohooooooooo. What a Tale COULD be told. P.S. My passport is in date and I’ll keep all my cooties to myself :o)

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Philip IV of France

Or – as I call IT – P the good-looking and clever. Wiki : P the Fair He was the father of Isabella the She-Wolf. Also – At daybreak on Friday, 13 October 1307, hundreds of Templars in France were simultaneously arrested by agents of Philip the Fair, to be later tortured into admitting heresy […]

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France & Germany

SomeTHING on yt has quite blatantly talked about IT’s bloodline. German – Holy Roman Empire French – Isabella the She-Wolf, daughter of Philippe IV (the Fair) Isabella has gone down in history as killing her husband, Edward II of England with the order to stick a RED HOT POKER up his….bleeeeep! The Holy Roman Empire […]

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Paper Twins #? – The Man in the Iron Mask

Weave a Garland of my Vows by Greta Brookes

Apparently (m’eh) Anne of Austria gave birth to two boys. Twins. Louis XIV (who built Versailles????) and…..? OK. If you’ve not read ANYTHING that I’ve done here for almost two years. AGAIN. You will not get the ref. Andronicus & John. Jesus & John. Whatever. Unholywood “fiction”

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Ninon de l’Enclos

Wiki : Ninon de l’Enclos   Despite the MS History BS about Ninon, she’s always been a bit of a heroine to me. So much so that I named my range of hand-knits after her. I have two biographies and many articles about this famous “courtesan” and her life. So what drew me to her? […]

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Iris of the Rainbow

Wiki : Iris   The Greek goddess Iris is…Goddess of the Rainbow, Fertility, Colours, the Sea, Heraldry, the Sky, Truth, and Oaths. About a thousand years ago I asked a simple question in one of the very first live chats I’d ever commented in. It was – “What is a rainbow?”   OhMY! What a […]

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Brass Balls

Nope. Rewind. Tennis Balls. My apologies. My brain got stuck on a recent yt live chat with some (?) sexpest and his partner talking about Brass Balls and how them balls must go ClangClang a lot. Shrug. Dirty and ugly in MY opinion. Anyhoo – Tennis Balls. Ken Bran. Henry V. Shakespeare.  

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Napoleon Blown-Apart via GB: 19th June 2019

Napoleon Blown-Apart via GB: 19th June 2019   WAY BACK in June last year I admitted that MY first thoughts about Napoleon were wrong. Today I’ve had further confirmation about just HOW wrong my first reading was :o(   There is a very verifiable link between Blown-apart’s Egypt Campaign (1799-1801) and the f*ckery with the […]

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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Lord of Montaigne

OK. Anyway…A few days ago I asked not to be taken back here. Guess what….?   Wiki : Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Lord of Montaigne   And yes. I have his book. Read it! When you write Historical Fiction it is VITAL to look at least 2 generations behind & 2 generations ahead. Cause and […]

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René Descartes

3.4. Same as before.   Sharp as fluffy cotton wool ball. Sheeeesh!   Download came for why I was guided back to the 17th c. To debunk the fake history?   Wiki : Renay Day- Car   Puhlease. Do NOT send me back 100 years to Michel de Montaigne. Oh. Fluff it :o(   P.S. […]

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La Gazette

Weave a Garland of my Vows by Greta Brookes

Diving back into the 17th c with Don Quicks Oat has just reminded me of something!!!   Wiki : La Gazette   There are links here. Trust me. Marie de Rohan was regularly “exiled” from France. All her lands were sequestered by Richelieu. One of her exiles was a very long journey with two faithful […]

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If THIS Song TRIGGERS U – Your Problem. Not Mine ;o)

Simple Minds The American. That is YOUR problem!!!!! DO NOT shoot the Messenger. She loves you.  ‘Rats, lice and Scotsmen, you find them everywhere!’  I know that quote ALL too well and have used it. See below. Below. Below…       And – I had great fun writing this scene. With Wat Montagu and Robert Lamont. […]

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