“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.”
I was 12 years old when my Mum lent me her copy of the novel Katherine by Anya Seton. We were living here then, and it ignited my interest in local history. From Bolingbroke Castle to Lincoln Cathedral which are about 26 or so miles apart. And it also helped me with the English Royal […]
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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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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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The Flying Chair Jean-Jacques Renouard, Count of Villayer (1605-1691), is reported to have invented this mechanism. He perfected this system in Paris and, thanks to his ties with the House of Condé, installed it at Chantilly and at Versailles, in the prince’s own mansion. Saint-Simon comments on the invention of these flying chairs, “which by […]
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I’ve bought and read several of his books. This is all fine and dandy but….Q….why is he a world famous published writer and speaker? Just asking :o)
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In May 2019 I was deep into Double, Double, Toil and Trouble land. 29th May 2019 : “Most Sacrilegious Murder…” said by MacDuff 30th May 2019 : “To know my deed, ’twere best not know myself.” 30th May 2019 : “Out, damned spot! out, I say!” 31st May 2019 : “My bosom franchised and allegiance […]
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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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Another done that! Dinah Lampitt/Deryn Lake has been a favourite author of mine for decades. We connected via FB years ago when I posted the images posted here. No Widgets found in the Sidebar Alt! AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, ASTROLOGY, BEAUTIFUL, BOOKS, DID YOU KNOW?, DINAH LAMPITT, FRIENDS Deryn Lake/Dinah Lampitt : Virgo Rising Thursday, 3 September 2020, 14:58 I […]
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Yesterday I suggested that someone study the 1739 Turgot map of Paris. It’s very telling. I have used this map many times to walk my characters around the city. The image above is the part most used. If you expand the view, you will see the Rue Saint Thomas du Louvre between the Louvre and […]
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I’ve been in such a quandary for the past two years but have found MY solution now. Ravens of Dinefwr was conceived, planned, outlined with a male protagonist/main character and a strict historical storyline. I’ve finally worked out how to reverse this. All the females connected to the males are NOW the focus of the […]
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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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Am I the only person in the WHOLE WORLD who sees the Mabinogion as a reflection of the House of Comnenus and Tartary? King Arthur? Betrayals? Beheadings? Horses? Celts/Scythians? A Kievan Rus’ from Georgia whom I named Aleksander? The ancient Brythonic Language? The destruction of Welsh Culture and Language? The fact that 12th century Welsh […]
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