“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.”
OH 1941 below. 2021 – right in front of our eyes. YakYak for hours. All BS. Throw that in a pile. Yak a LOT more. Add to said pile. Keep producing ever more quantities of BS. Rewind. Repeat. Rewind. Repeat. Leave to fester for a decade or century or millenium. And…. POOF. Roses from shit […]
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Yup. I’m WEIRD. I’ve always known that. I do all the stuff listed below. What has totally freaked me out these past 2/3 years is the fact that I can still FEEL all this through my laptop. Which is why I’m perfectly fine with 24 subs, 1 view a week and zero comments right now. […]
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GB 19th October 2018 : Did Mary Sidney Write Shakespeare’s Plays? Even I had no idea about What an Absolutely Tangled Web I’d Woven! I’m absolutely loving this man and his knowledge because (although he has no idea) he HAS brought so many of my lines of research together. As stated in the old post […]
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How’s this for a run around Greek Mythology? Y’all know the story of love-sick Apollo’s pursuit of Daphne? And her prayer to her father to be saved from this pesky pest? And that her father turned her into a laurel tree? I’m back with Ovid and his Metamorphoses here. Mmmn. Girl turned into static, unspeaking […]
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I can do this all day and night! I adore this crazy murdermystery gardening series. It is as silly as you can get. This episode features Belinda Lang/Fake MoneyGrubby Aussies/Gardening/A Scaffolding Misadventure/Broken Limbs and the word LISSOME…as Belinda is forced to break into a house by climbing through a window. Lissome/Lithesome. The Wife Her Husband
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Ipomoea : (A Wexford Case) Ruth Rendell. Roxane’s shoes. The leaf was not from a wild plant but from the cultivated climber Ipomoea rubro-caerulea, the Morning Glory. I’m in Distraction Action here ! One of my favourite Ruth Rendell Inspector Wexford books is the one in the image above. I’ve planted and grown ipomoea/convolvulus in several homes. […]
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We had a meeting last week with a top man from the company who bought out all the farmland around us. Their wanton farming practices have poisoned our land and our pond. Everything that I have planted over the past ten years is now dead. And so are the fish. They have promised to “make […]
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Gotta love an Archie – ol- o – ghoost:o)
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For centuries everyone knew the Labour of Months. Even those who did not work the land. This was as common as common knowledge can get and depicted in art everywhere. January — Feasting; exchanging gifts on New Year’s. Often there’s an allusion to Janus, the god of doors, with two or three heads facing in different directions, […]
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I’m being petty. Sorry :o( Brits say Herbs. And my sage needs to be dried. Sage has been my one and only great success this year in the garden. So, as I’m potless (no money) and just about out of dried sage to burn…I’m gonna dry mine own. Yay :o) It’s been, like, forever since […]
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Sad Cypress is a wonderful Poirot book by Agatha Christie. It begins with the quote : “Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid.” From whence cometh this quote? And why “sad” cypress? Well. Sad because : Cypress Wood used to be used to make coffins. And………..Check out 12th Night by […]
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OMG. Batten down the hatches. Lock the Doors. Get Prepared, GB. Those crazy Welshies are invading soon! To Do List : CLEAN THE HOUSE! Change all the bed linen. Wash the car (private joke.) Make baked potatoes. Be prepared to watch Netflix. Crank up the Music VIBES. Do NOT even think about SINGING & DANCING!!!! […]
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