“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.”
Elisiv of Kiev has been on my list of important subjects since December 2018. The Many Hidden Mysteries of Grand Tartaria Below is not the perfect video for my point but it’ll do. MY DNA. I’ve talked about quite a bit : 36% Scottish, 29% Scandinavian….1% Russian. As we are talking about almost 1,000 years […]
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That’s all I said after telling the uncle that his nephews were Very TALL & Bulky. 6 foot 6 and 6 foot 3. Uncle nodded wisely : Something in the water up there! My boys are blow-backs from generations long gone. CRABBIT = ME on a bad day. Hagliatelli is brother’s new recipe. Work that […]
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OMG: I’m all of a giddy right now. I’ve just had a knock at the back door, opened it and saw a vision! MY BABY BROTHER! Well, there’s only 3 and a half years between us with another brother in the middle, but he’s still MY baby brother. Gordon Bennett, he looks well and happy […]
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Since when did Killarney become a National Park? I’ve read the Annals of Innisfallen. Brian Boru and his grandson Muirchertach Ua Briain must be turning in their graves. Muirchertach Ua Briain had a bit of a tiff with Magnus Barelegs, King of Norway about the title of High King of Ireland. Enter the Ravens of […]
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That’s where I come from. Through many generations. It was written…“It’s all decided for us.” Thank God for giving me one last try before…“This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us.” :o) I ain’t coming back. FACT!
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I grew up with this total nonsense :o)
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With Clarkson, Hamster & Captain Slow. Guess wuheres they are?
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I know, coming from a multi-generational military family, that STANDARDS are flags. I even know a little bit about the history of STANDARDS. They are called several names : Colours, Flags, Oriflammes, Pennants etc To Raise The Standard used to mean To Fly YOUR Flag. As High As Possible so that everyone could see it. […]
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I’ve done Macbeth here so many times in so many ways. GB 29th of May 2019 : “Most Sacrilegious Murder…” said by MacDuff I went back to Barbara Erskine a couple of days ago and took down Kingdom of Shadows. BTW : I met Barbara in Lincoln and used to have contact with her via […]
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Both me and he grew up this way. 1:30/2pm. Sunday. LUNCH. Every kid from my generation thinks that their mother cooked the best Sunday Roast Ever. But his mother is pure genius. Roast potatoes to die for. I brought our kids up like this. Although one of them turned into a complete weirdo and prefers […]
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1. Thomas DIX was born about 1763. He was buried on 14 Nov 1816 in Southrepps, Norfolk, England. Moving on to my REAL grandfather, Clarence, who married Enid Anne Sylvia – my Nan, always called Anne. I have vivid memories of her silver cutlery. It was engraved EAS on every handle. That’s how I know her birth […]
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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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