“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.”
It’s mine own fault really :o( For falling madly in love with a Medieval (Viking) Norwegian King called Magnus (Barelegs) Olafsson. You’ve gotta love the name of his sword. When he wasn’t shooting arrows into Norman Earl’s eyes, he was hamstringing his enemies with a weapon called Legbiter. He came back to bite me. Tut. […]
OMGiddy DNA! I’m so excited. I’ve just found out that I have Crawford in my DNA!!!! COUSINS Maybe not the fictional Francis Crawford of Lymond. VOTED ONE OF BRITAIN’S FAVOURITE HISTORICAL NOVELS Before George R. R. Martin there was Dorothy Dunnett . . . PERFECT for fans of A Game of Thrones. ‘She is a brilliant story teller, The […]
Well. So. As I’ve been saying forever now – certain people are only too happy to stalk and steal from here. Yesterday’s video with May and Hammond playing with Lego produced Lego mentions in the usual yukky places. What I loved most about that video was the moment when James May was asked the question…”Who […]
Tomorrow is Bonfire Night here in the UK. Ever since I was a child, baking potatoes in the Bonfire in Scotland, I’ve LOVED this night. Have y’all watched the show below? Kit Harington agreed to do this because of his ANCESTORS. One of them being called Catesby. And his mother (a Catesby) named him after […]
It is a Very long time since I watched this film. Maureen O’Hara was a Dublin girl who became famous. This is the Irish Gaelic scene from The Quiet Man translated above. This is the “Greatest Guy” John Wayne Ever Knew :o)
…Much as I love you. Please……Puhleasies…stopping playing French men in movies. Especially Charles VII who betrayed Jehanne d’Arc. Or Johnny English’s arch enemy? Please? P.S. A THREEFER. Natalie Imbruglia (Johnny English’s Saviour) – TORN? I LOVELOVELOVE this song. As if y’all didn’t guess :o)
GB: 17th July 2019 Pulling Duty for that RMP job there at the Blue Church, around Christmas, gave me the COLDEST but most beautiful night. Berlin shone BLUE on the snow and ice that I was standing upon. For hours. A Truly Ice Blue Crystal Night! The guys were laughing with their thick soled Army […]
Being totally, completely and utterly rejected by a certain “Truth Community” for telling (ahem!) TRUTH, has been beyond painful for me. The bans. The insults. The humiliations. The #NASTIES. Who’d ever want to be subjected to anything as Soul Destroying as that? OK. Whatever. Moving on. All the above has – in TRUTH – been […]
Wow! Unbelievable. THE Actors are still fully made up and masked and running around spouting meaningless words. They know that We know. Time for REAL PEOPLE to BREAK the 4th Wall FOREVER and separate the performance from reality? I – for one – am so BORED with the Actors and their masks and their scripts […]
A short lesson in languages and history and timelines. I called my both my Grandmothers NAN. In Italian she is Nonna. You can use Nanny, Granny, Nanna etc There is a Welsh Female Saint called Saint Non/Nun. From Pembrokeshire. She was the mother of Saint David – patron saint of Wales. She was raped and […]