“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.”
Today – I’m grateful for the rain. Cool air blowing through open windows. Seeds being watered by someone else other than me. D’ya know what would make this day perfect? A glorious, massive thunderstorm. Please & Thank You :o)
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ForThoseWhoDoNotUnderstandWiki : Twmbarlwm For decades now, my F-i-L has repeatedly stated that when he dies, he wants to be buried – VERTICALLY – on top of Twmbarlwm. To this day, he has NO Idea what Me, Myself, I take from this :o(
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A few things to research. If & when (?!) Suicides Buried at Crossroads. Cheating the Gallows. Hecate : Goddess of the Crossroad. The History of Impaling. Vlad Tepes. The Real Meaning of the Hanged Man Tarot card and Upside Down Hangings (Gulliver’s Travels?) Deviant Burials. Folklore Tales from Around the World of Death and Burial […]
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YepWiki : Ian Fleming I suggest you read up about Fleming ? ! In my humble opinion, Ian Fleming did more damage to several generations of men (&women) than any other modern writer. The Child Catcher ? James Bond ? He loved cold, twisted, Underground, lonely, single, emotionless, Action Men. His influence on Dorothy Dunnett, […]
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OK. Completely, Absolutely and Thoroughly BORED now with this ongoing I & J obsession. #GetOverIT?
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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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OK. SO. All I wanted to do was go to my Kindle books and take a screenshot of the page where I wrote about Buckingham laying a single tulip at Anne’s feet. Guess What I find ? The book that took me many years to write (the F1RST Draft was over a million words, so […]
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I know a bit about Hemingway, the writer. I KNOW that The Ritz Hotel in Paris has The Hemingway Bar. I’ve stayed there a few times, in a former life. The image above is my ONLY souvenir from The Ritz. It has pride of place in my kitchen. But I didn’t know this about Hemingway!!! […]
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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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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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Get gone. Leave me alone. Suck something else – much more compliant and willing. U R ALL Boring as….Red Mercury and PRETENDING to be THE Modern Van Helsing avec Garlic and mirrors and the usual same old yawn yt cattychittychatty B(lood) S(ucking) BSBSBS!
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Hidden History Research 