TGINF

Thursday, 18 June 2020, 17:23.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow – I might find the poem Silence amongst my mad, untidy computer files (?) Meanwhile : Back at the Madhouse….

Best Birthday Present EVER!

Thursday, 18 June 2020, 14:54.Reading time 1 minute.

Eldest and I were talking about this in the car this morning! I said : I might watch Victor Meldrew as I’m cooking tea. Him : When was the last time you watched Lovejoy? Remember? When I bought you the full boxset for your birthday? Me : Best Birthday Present EVER. I watched all 70 […]

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Thursday, 18 June 2020, 13:21.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Silver Bells. Cockle Shells. I love this episode of Poirot for several (Russian??) reasons. Unfortunately yt will only show the crappy crap below. M’eh I even have an original 1935 magazine that premiered this Agatha Christie short story. OCD? Moi?

Cardoon or Artishock

Thursday, 18 June 2020, 12:55.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Sorry :o( You’ll understand if you watch the video below. I’ve always loved Cardoon. So huge. Sculptural. Impressive. And I have a bunch of seeds ready for next year. Cardoon is also known as the Artichoke Thistle. Mmmmmn. Link (?!) As I’ve never eaten an artichoke, I’ll be growing these for their beauty first…and then […]

JailBreak

Wednesday, 17 June 2020, 13:32.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Hey. Peeps! Do not EVER try to imprison ME. I’ve been breaking out of JAIL my whole life. Started in the cot. Mum used to find me sleeping underneath it! I’m just stunned that y’all are still trying to LOCK ME DOWN. Your/You’re bad :o)

NO Probs Naming these Shelves!

Wednesday, 17 June 2020, 13:10.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Yes. A mess. But, in my defence, only half the disorder is mine. The room has been taken over by others as an office :o( #DoNOTShootTheMessenger?

Hey : I’m Fallible

Wednesday, 17 June 2020, 11:35.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I’ve never claimed to be perfect. GB : 2nd June 2020 I have FINALLY got all my Kindle books back. Gritted teeth vibe. Only to find out that I’d made a mistake in the post linked above. It wasn’t a single tulip. It was a bunch of tulips. SMH. But I did write that scene […]

Death of a Charming Man

Tuesday, 16 June 2020, 17:44.Reading time 1 minute.

No word of a lie – I listened to this book (again) last night. Himself is still on ER. Got called out twice last night. Was given until 12pm today to recover sleep. Came home at 10 past 4. Left home at quarter past 4. Another Emergency Rescue. Anyway. Back to Scotland. A Charming Man […]

23rd Jan 2020

Tuesday, 16 June 2020, 13:36.Reading time 1 minute.

GB : A Personal Message from ME to AB Read the above and you MIGHT guess why MY hours and hours and hours of research into Part Two of this : GB. 18th March 2019 : Hidden History of the Cathars – Part One Never came to be posted. Something STOLE MY WORK (and the […]

The Napoleon of the Criminal World | Adam Worth

Tuesday, 16 June 2020, 13:01.Reading time less than 1 minute.

OK. So! I’ll bank this in the vast vault of “things that I never knew.” Did Conan Doyle KNOW this story and use it to create HIS “Napoleon of Crime” aka Jim Moriarty ? ? ?

THE Local Bobby

Tuesday, 16 June 2020, 11:27.Reading time 1 minute.

I first moved here aged 10. Dad had finished his two years probation and came to town as a fully – fledged police person. From the very start he was everyone’s “go to” man. At the expense of his wife and children, come day, come night, he NEVER turned away a soul in need. Only […]

David Renwick

Monday, 15 June 2020, 16:30.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Contributed to ONE of my fave comedy duos EVER. Ronnie Barker/RonnieCorbett aka The Two Ronnies And went on to write two programmes with another two comedy duos. As in : Victor and Margaret/One Foot in the Grave Jonathan and Maddie/Jonathan Creek

The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the centre of the known world, Jerusalem. Come and be my fellow Far-Farer. Come travelling and unravelling with me through Wales, Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Russia, Constantinople, Italy, the Balkans, the Holy Land. Come and Far-Fare through every degree on my 12th century compass.