“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.”
Way Back in the Mists of Time, when I was at QEGS, I had a mini-tranny. No. Not a dwarf transvestite (TUT!) a small transistor radio that was permanently tuned to Radio Luxembourg/Bedtime/Under the Covers/Listen to MY music and also my mates’ requests and letters read out loud. I VIVIDLY remember that Marc Bolan was […]
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OMG! Who’d’ve thunk that a life time spent reading literature would be SO relevant for ME today? The Fall of the House of Usher Roderick BURIES his TWIN sister ALIVE! LMFAO :o)
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So THE THEY say – Is full of murderers. I need to get back in contact with Lily. My paternal Grandmother who was born and bred in the Gorbals of Glasgow. She had two brothers. Both policemen. Eeeeeeek. Crime REEL. THIS is why I call myself a peasant! My Scottish Nan was Born and Bred […]
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I will NOT go into the real life story of exactly who used this nom de plume when……….ZIP! But my children bear the same name. surname could be from “‘the son of Odo‘ from the nickname Oddy, sometimes Hoddy, whence Odson or……! It’s a common name in Wales. Taken from their father and grandfather and…..maybe (?) […]
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I read this book many years ago and it still haunts me :o( Richly gripping, nonoccult thriller about telepathic twins- -from the author of Bella Mafia (1991) and writer of the much- acclaimed British PBS series Prime Suspect. Ruda and Rebecca as children were subjects of experiments in telepathy by Dr. Josef Mengele at the […]
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In my entire life, I’ve yet to meet a Normal Person who will wilfully quote tracts of the Bible at me. Even though an “acclaimed” version of said book is named after one of OUR monarchs. KJV. WE just DO NOT do this. We are a Christian country. We understand the Bible. BUT – we […]
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Yeh. Yeh. I hear y’all shouting…GB’s talking about Brave New World! WRONG. Only an Obsessive, Compulsive Researcher of HISTORY (esp. 17th C history) knows about THIS book by Aldous. Grey Eminence It informed a Massive part of Marie’s story. And gave me the nickname that l’éminence grise gave to Richelieu. And just how much power […]
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When you research an Historical Novel you have to go backwards first to the previous generation and then forward, to the next generation, before you can possibly begin to understand the generation about whom you are writing. Margot always fascinated me. Although she had no role in the book. Marguerite of Valois I even bought […]
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I am Totally STUNNED (almost) Speechless. For the past forever massive yt channels have been banging on and on and on about THE RESET. Everyone of “the them” actually/sincerely/believe in and TEACH about RESET. To “the they” it’s all about a time when humanity was erased by ?something? and just a few of us humans […]
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‘I think I am destined to be the object of the folly of madmen‘ – Marie de Rohan 1600-1679 This is my FAVE quote by Marie. It comes from a letter that she wrote to one of her friends – about Cardinal Richelieu, who had executed one of her closest friends, imprisoned several more, led […]
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I’ve NEVER been so INSULTED in my life! Please & thank you BUT I NEVER want my name connected with/to a single yt channel EVER! The video below might amuse a few – it’d amuse y’all more if you heard my world traveller-in-crime tell TRUE her story about one of her “charges” in the Private […]
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Hubris is the characteristic of excessive confidence or arrogance, which leads a person to believe that he or she may do no wrong. The overwhelming pride caused by hubris is often considered a flaw in character. Nemesis UhOh. Now there’s a goddess y’all NEVER want to meet (?) With her ever present Goose, Sword, Lash, Dagger, Measuring Rod, […]
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