“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 have access to some amazing secondary local sources. And access to people who have access to many primary sources concerning the history of this area in the 17th and 18th centuries. We were infamous! Even Scotland Yard despaired! The image above is a drawing of how the town was in the 17/1800’s, at the […]
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Video below. Around 2:49. Poynton’s the shoe shop is located on the High Street. BANKs Street is further down the road. Off the Bull Ring. SIDE NOTE : Endeavour links back to Inspector Morse. I totally dislike Joseph Banks…….! THE F1RST? ? ? Ok. My bad for being a disliker. Around 9:25 is the weir, […]
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If you stop the moving picture below at around 34 seconds… The semi-circular building back left is where the cellar caved in and entrance was gained to a set of tunnels. Just behind it you can see St Mary’s Church and Church Lane. The god-awful 1960’s square, flat roofed building just to the right is […]
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It’s not a case of what you know, but who you know! I know several Highways and Byways workmen. I live with one of them! Yesterday he came home and BLEW my mind with Hidden History. In 2007, the local Market Town (where we lived at the time) had severe floods. As the water abated, […]
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Why don’t people write Gothic Novels like this anymore? Oh. I’m being olde-fashionde and longing for an innocence that is long lost. Heyho! This is a LIKE bloody LIKE crap review of the LIKE Victorian Gothic LIKE genre. Great story though.
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OK. Left to me. I can do this. L’il Jackie Greig aka Great Brookes is STILL forbidden. Hunted. Trashed by people who believe that the world started in 1850 (?) My children will NEVER be proscribed. As I Live & Die I WILL reclaim MY family. P.S. I don’t like CAMPBELL’s. Sorry. It’s in my […]
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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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A Q was asked in a live chat a few days ago. About kids. It was ignored by the channel creator and the multiple mods. Whom, I’ve always assumed, are close and trusted friends. If the answer was YES, why ignore it? If the answer was NO, why ignore it? When my husband and I […]
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Just li’l old me. On my own. As in INDEPENDENT & not CO-DEPENDANT ! With my mates. Phil & Bill…fellow CELTS/SCYTHIANS yada yada.
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The more time that passes, the more I understand STOIC. And appreciate. The history timeline may be slightly off but that does NOTHING to dim the wisdom of some of the gazillions of sentences written since the beginning of the beginning. Seneca was so RIGHT about Quality Over Quantity. I tell my boys to save […]
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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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Nightmares R Me lately. Always about rejection. Always about my parents and my family and my friends totes turning their backs on me. I never had these nightmares until 3 years ago. My Parentals/Family/friends are THE most important people in my life. Ergo : I’ve been triggered to FEAR the loss of MY people. Evermore […]
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Hidden History Research 