“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.”
Life according to Wiki: Christopher Marlowe was the first English author to achieve critical notoriety for his use of blank verse[citation needed]. The major achievements in English blank verse were made by William Shakespeare, who wrote much of the content of his plays in unrhymed iambic pentameter, and John Milton, whose Paradise Lost is written in blank verse. Miltonic blank […]
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I was given a reminder of this place yesterday. Something to do with sunburn! But we have lovely cooling rain today. Palatine Hill is about a 5 minute walk from The Coliseum in Rome, past the Arch of Constantine and across the road. So me and girly decided to take a look. It’s a wonderfully […]
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RAF SCAMPTON. We can drive down the 158 and see the Red Arrows practice flying. You CANNOT miss them. Very smoky bear in the Pie in the Sky. Where was I? TIM. Nice but DIM. A twofer free via Greta Brookes anagram = GREATER BOOKS Or Bach is the german word for BROOK. TAKE ON […]
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On this Place of mine is obviously not the RIGHT WAY! We had lovely visitors this morning and the conversation turned to our own personal IRL nightmare times. Our friends are wonderful and amazing but their lives have been so different to ours. Himself decided to tell the story of me and his sister lost […]
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Most times this triple named Egyptian woman is portrayed as the daughter of Akhenaton…The CrazyMad Pharaoh….and Nefertiti. Many times, she’s also portrayed as the younger sister of Meritaten. I know Meritaten by the name Scota. The Egyptian woman who travelled west after her father’s disgrace and began the nations of Ireland and Scotland. I really […]
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WOW! Mel Smith & Griff Rhys Jones (Alas Smith & Jones) Rowan Atkinson (Bean/Blackadder/Johnny English) Pamela Stephenson (wife of Billy Connolly) Series 1 was aired in 1979. How times change. NOT! Constable Savage
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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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In honour of my youngest brother. On his birthday. How I miss his natural, uncontrollable, spontaneous, infectious giggle! Beanz, Beanz are good for the heart The more you eat the more you…… Oh. I’ve said too much :o(
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I make this soup for myself whenever I feel bloodless and exhausted. It has no name but the basics never change. Fry diced onion and sliced garlic in olive oil and garlic pepper for a while. Chuck in some sliced/diced carrots and potatoes. Mix and fry. Mix and fry. Add chicken stock and a tin […]
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Frosty Knickers As Brad has the bare-faced cheek to call Anne. Frosty Knickers? Moi? How DARE You say that to my face again, you bleeeeeep! My knickers are frozen ON :o)
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OK. I’m a few days late but I don’t watch live news ! I’m loving the timing of this MAJOR NEW FIND. Can y’all feel the FAKE history panic vibe? P.S. I abseiled down the rock of Gibraltar…twice. Not bad for a girl who is soooo freaking scared of heights that she almost peed herself […]
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Oh My Goodness. After more than half a lifetime of Lovejoy battles, someone sits down after work and ACTUALLY watches this show on TVFREEVIEW. I walk into the room and say – that’ll be when so and something happened. I’ve read the Lovejoy books. I’ve listened to the audiobooks read by Michael Fenton Stevens (A […]
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Hidden History Research 