“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.”
OK. Someone caught outta the aether MY family’s running joke about ME – (pun intended) I can usually get of the bottom of the drive and say…..STOP, I need a wee! But….BUT….I can impress everyone around me with the UNDENIABLE FACT that I have travelled from here, to Paris (over 10 hours in the car) […]
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This is a “clue” to a Ruth Rendell book. NO CLUES! Everywhere that I have lived…apart from here (?!) I’ve grown Morning Glory. They are sweet and simple and giving! Q : Oasis
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My six foot tall P.A. wanted to call her daughter Storm. But the fam Disapproved. The lovely little girl is now called Ella Storm :o)
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Wow! I’m glad I don’t do this video thing for a living. 6 hours? #NoPatience. Anyways. This was filmed at 6am this morning. My orchard. So much to do, so little time. I didn’t get around to cutting back the raspberries last year but that has proved a blessing in disguise. I have an interloper! […]
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In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of ‘curious’ gardeners were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son were at the vanguard of this change – as gardeners, as collectors and above all as exemplars of an age that began in […]
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I’ve met and known several actors and comedians. I’ve even spent time living IRL in the home of a London Theatre Actor and his London Restauranteur Wife. He was always late for rehearsals and the morning I left his home he was meant to be rehearsing for a new stage musical. WTF? How can a […]
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I am gobsmacked! I’ve loved Travis tunes for many a long year but…it’s only recently that I’ve looked into the band. I had NO idea that they were Glaswegian. I had NO idea that the lead singer with the amazing voice was called Francis Healy. I had NO idea. As each day passes – I’m […]
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“Mr Johnson, 33, discovered he was HIV positive only a few days before the death last year of Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the rock band Queen. He is the second celebrity this week to reveal that he has the virus. On Sunday, Kenny Everett, a DJ on Capital Gold radio in London, revealed that […]
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I have 5 lovely friends who used to visit me regularly. They were ALWAYS welcomed with a cup of tea and and an ear. I’m willing to listen. I liked them very much. But the day that I declared that I was a Flat Earther……………..was the last time I ever saw them. P.S. NEVER, EVER […]
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For me, this has always been the MOST bittersweet of Agatha Christie’s novels. If you know the book, you’ll understand the bitter part. The sweet part – in my humble opinion – is the fact that one of the characters is based on Shakespeare’s Iago from Othello. Yes – Iago. The character that I love […]
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We have ALL heard about the Phase 2 blahwhateverblah. IT’s programmed Phase 2 fear porn ? M’eh! In MY world – phase 2 is coming on the 5th June 2020. With the first of 3 eclipses. Hold on to your hats, peeps. 5th of June 2020 : FULL MOON Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius That’ll be […]
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10 or so years ago – without a single clue but – with some arcane knowledge passed down, I planted the roses in my garden….quite well, apparently! Early bloomers. Summer Bloomers. Late Bloomers. I know the seasons have all gone mental but I don’t care. I’m picking my roses again. Shoot – the scent in […]
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