“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.”
OMG. I missed the Tennyson bit? And he is my homie. Bad. Head Hung/Hanged in SHAME :o( From the Guardian Newspaper : We have recently pointed you at a graphic novel about the history of puzzles and at the first novel by Guardian setter Picaroon, each of which remains heavily recommended. Time for a peek at a golden-age […]
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That’s all I need :o) We used to be able to buy Scotch (Mutton) Pies here but, sadly, no longer. They taste better up there, anyhoo. Many a time me and Lily (Nan) would stroll into town to pick up her messages (go shopping in English) and come home with freshly made floury baps and […]
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Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote the latter. His wife, Mary Shelley, wrote the former. Better known as Frankenstein. A bit of poetry then a bit of a GB goggle. Go away :o) BTW : Ken Bran is a Belfast Boy…FECK ME !
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I’m going loopy, methinks. OK. Meknows. Titus Andronicus Act 1 Scene 1 line 136 : The self-same gods that arm’d the Queen of Troy. What the…? What Queen of Troy. The clue is revealed 2 lines later with “Thracian tyrant.” Aha. That’d be Hecuba then. Then I read the annotation at the end of the […]
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Himself has been working by here today. Apparently, he’s taken tons of photos for me to look at. His best line was one stolen from Eddie and Ritchie in Bottom : There’s loads of pencil-tangles in here. Translated as PEN-tacles. Well, love. That’ll be why it’s called THE DEMON CHURCH. Yes? He called them PAGANS. […]
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My Mum was a whizz at this dish. It was a Saturday Tea Treat throughout my childhood. Then when I went back to the land of my birth – Singapore- and tasted their Nasi Goreng. I was stunned. But it was about 3 am and we had spent several hours in Raffles Hotel. TRUE! TRUTH! […]
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IRK : Irritate; annoy.”it irks her to think of the runaround she received” RUNAROUND : deceitful or evasive treatment. BTW : The rose on the left is Paul’s Himalayan Musk…up to the gutters now. The rose on the right is Rambling Rector entwined with honeysuckle and they’re both trying to get into the front door. […]
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I think y’all know by now that I am NOT a fan of Ian Fleming or Bond (Who Always to me is the TRUE representation of the King of Wands in the Tarot…King Dangalang displaying his wand) For the meelyonth time : I’ve written about Fleming and his close friend Dorothy Dunnett. The both started […]
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Was Kit Marlowe Shakespeare’s servant ? Ooooh! Suspense R US, yes? My little brother shares a certain name with a certain 16th c playwright. Mum told me that she called him Kit as a nickname. But it never stuck :o( I like KIT. Dr Faustus, anyone? I like Mr Waugh too. Very much.
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Where is THE FAVOURITE SUB aka Number F1RST Fanatic Now? She’s singing along with Jim Kerr and Simples Minds? Or still “pretending” to be Scottish with an Hysterically ….sorry… stupid fingers… HISTORICALLY Multi-V erified FAMOUS family lineage. BOIARI aka a Russian Boyar? ME GB aka Jackie Greig, relative of Admiral Sir Samuel Grieg, Grandaughter of […]
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My turn now after nearly 3 years of TORTURE. I’m calling in mine own. The gallowglass were from the western coast of Scotland, principally Argyll and the Western Isles.[2] Their weapon of choice was a battle axe, but claymores were not uncommon. The gallowglasses (also spelled galloglass, gallowglas or galloglas; from Irish: gall óglaigh meaning foreign warriors) were a class of elite mercenary warriors who were principally members of the Norse-Gaelic clans of […]
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I used this 17th century quote in my book. On the F1RST page. GOSSIP : casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true. MEDICINE : The science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease (in technical use often taken to exclude […]
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