“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.”
Or Percy-phone as some “like” to call her. I was raised on Myth & Legend via a beautiful Xmas present when I was about 5 years old. Crap – does that mean a whole life time spent studying the subject? Crap – does that mean a whole life time spent learning ? ? ? […]
I hadn’t realised just how “programmed” I’d been by BFF ! When I was pregnant with 1st son, I listened to RUMOURS, the album. Non-Stop. And fell in love with Stevie Nicks voice. Gave/gives me goosebumps! Still love her voice – despite the backstory :o)
If anything can ever do that – it’ll be…TRUTH/MUSIC/POETRY Where to start? I’m an Arsenal supporter. They are called – The Gunners I worked at RSA, Larkhill, Wiltshire. Home of the Artillery/Gunners. I love the Ruth Rendell book. Kissing the GUNNER’S Daughter (BTW – “The Gunner” was also an Arsenal fan!!!) And then there is […]
Dido. Alanis. Eddi. Kate. Annie et al. Take your pick. My sons’, both, remember me blasting Alanis on the Stuh -Ree – O – system. MAX VOL Wow! AM totes ROCKING a cover in her own sty-lee of one of my fave songs ever!!
Being ALMOST as Scandinavian as I am Scottish (29% former/36%latter – even though they are both, basically, the same!) I have always had a fondness for the Norse myths about Trolls. A troll is a class of being in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore. In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated rocks, mountains, or caves, live together […]
I keep hearing the wonderfully, gorge – ee- lishus Ken Bran spouting Iago lines. You know – that sweet but poisonous voice that whispers exactly what you think you want to hear. Oh. Yet. Iago. Iago. You are nothing but a goodly rotten trickster :o)
The title of my novel is a deliberate mis-quote of a Richard Crashaw poem. I explained this in May 2009 Wishes to His (Supposed) Mistress And I might’ve/could’ve said before that my fave poet is a homie. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Born a handful of miles from here. And my fave Tennyson poem is […]