“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.”
That’s all I said after telling the uncle that his nephews were Very TALL & Bulky. 6 foot 6 and 6 foot 3. Uncle nodded wisely : Something in the water up there! My boys are blow-backs from generations long gone. CRABBIT = ME on a bad day. Hagliatelli is brother’s new recipe. Work that […]
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OMG: I’m all of a giddy right now. I’ve just had a knock at the back door, opened it and saw a vision! MY BABY BROTHER! Well, there’s only 3 and a half years between us with another brother in the middle, but he’s still MY baby brother. Gordon Bennett, he looks well and happy […]
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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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I was looking for a “business” partner to share a new venture with and have received – out of the blue – an offer from a fellow historian who has followed my work for a long time. Way back since my Weave a Garland days in the early 2000’s. Woohoo. Time for a partner-in-historical-crime, methinks […]
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Ooooh. The youngster well and truly got me today! Sunday morning. 8 am. Local shop. My young friend/shop assistant saw me and shouted…Who sang Moon River? Not : Hi. How are you, Jackie? I said, Oh Bloody hell. He reckoned Audrey Hepburn but was unsure because that made no sense. I said, Satchmo. Big bloke. […]
Read MoreBarlings is just down the road from me. En route to Lincoln. The year after something happened in NY one September, I went to Lincoln to meet, in real life, a friend that I’d “met” online. She was a fellow writer and also (with her husband) the new owner of a publishing company in the […]
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It’s always the loudest, the most admired, the most adored and followed and revered and bowed down to who have least to say ? Just my opinion :o) P.S. I have only two people in this world who have the right to call me Sister. And I’m NO ONES brother. Quit that retardia, repeat by […]
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Thanks to an amazing friend, I learned quite a bit about Alasdair and the Lord of the Isles. She is much more Scandinavian than me. “They” say that Mac Colla was 6ft 7inches…though slightly shorter when “they” beheaded (?) him in Ireland. Mac Colla’s father Coll Ciotach, who was again taken prisoner at Dunyvaig, was […]
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Hey. It’s what I do. Tell my truth. I told my classmates that I loved this song. They ALL laughed at me. And then….they didn’t. I always thought it was a Jew’s Harp but it’s a Talk Box. I’d find out the difference if I could be bothered. P.S. He’s still quite cool nowadays :o)
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‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said, ‘To talk of many things:Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — Of cabbages — and kings —And why the sea is boiling hot — And whether pigs have wings.’ I get given the strangest presents. A couple of days ago it was a gorgeous, brand new Claw Hammer. Today […]
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Last night I was caught short aka needed a wee. I left my ipad downloading The Secrets of Pain audiobook by Phil Rickman. I went back to said ipad and found – The Prayer of the Night Shepherd downloaded. TRUE. FACT! OK, said I. Emma Powell narrates. I love her voice. I love this story […]
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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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