Stiff Little Fingers

I am soooo very beyond BORED now that I’m trawling my childhood memories. Emergency brake engaged! My brothers’ fave band in the ’70’s. OMG. I never,ever,ever imagined that I’d transition from me and Adam Ant to MY bro’s via a shared musical (banned) childhood. I’d totes forgotten the true origins of SLF  What a Wonderful […]

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Magnus Magnusson – Mastermind

Wiki : Magnus Magnusson An Iceland born Scot/Viking/”I’ve started so I’ll finish” With two of MY fave comedians. P.S. Peed Off V ibe ? MUCH ?    

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Triggered YET?

I call in the late, effing GREAT Roger Lloyd Pack aka Trigger aka I MADE MY POINT? ? ? P.S. RLP was also Fantastic in The Vicar of Dibley. Oh. Yes. I AM SURE  :o)    

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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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Staying TRUE to MY Nature

I’m one of those horrible, nasty (?!) people who ALWAYS sees the glass half full. A Natural Born Optimist who sees silver linings in the darkest of places :o)   This week is gonna be strange but, ultimately, good. When we get triggered it is not a sign of something bad on the outside – […]

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If U Can’t Do the Vibe. U Ain’t in THE Tribe|Clan

It is the fundamental urge of all living creatures to re-produce, to seek protection in the safety of numbers and to seek order through some form of social harmony. As human beings differ little from this, all over the world from the beginning of recorded time societies have existed, which have bound it’s population together […]

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The PRETENDERS | Pack IT Up

Stay punk. OK, PUNK. You’ve made MY day :o) TY, Chrissie. If you can’t do the Vibe…Just Pack IT up???  

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White Crow

The White Crow, one-time Soldier-Scholar of the Invisible College and a practitioner of Hermetic science and magic, and Baltazar Casaubon, architect and lover, a man not too particular about his personal hygiene, are two of Mary Gentle’s finest creations. The worlds they stride across range from the Renaissance city where aristocratic rats rule the human […]

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The Smallest Range of Shelves in MY Library

The photo is not good. Heyho! I don’t have “the tech” ‘cos I’m a peasant, I’ll leave it to y’all to decode via your ‘puters the titles on here. A bit of Shakespeare. Ovid. Herodotus. Aesculapius. Christina de Pizan. Malory. Language. Poetry. Literature. Villon. Classical Education. Machiavelli. Rabelais. Homer  etc etc etc. I don’t need […]

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I Bet She Drinks…?

Treated myself right now because the Easter bbq is cancelled :o( WHY? Uuuurm. No one can buy any food? Even Paul, our amazing butcher has NO sausage. NO handmade burgers. NO chops. Thursday and Saturday are our “Famous” Market Town market days. No markets. Ergo – no fresh fruit and veg. Drowning my sorrows with […]

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Warriors of the Waste Land

I could not be more GRATEFUL for these blessings that I’m being gifted now. :o) Thank you.   “I sat upon the shore Fishing, with the arid plain behind me Shall I at least set my lands in order? London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down Poi s’ascose nel foco che gli affina […]

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I Deny Everything

I’ve NEVER watched the X-Files. NEVER listened to and loved Simple Minds. NEVER said a single thing out of turn! Denial is easy :o)  

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