By The Pricking of MY Thumbs…..

Thursday, 29 October 2020, 13:47.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I’m burning all the sage that I have left :o)

Marion Chesney

Wednesday, 14 October 2020, 18:14.Reading time 1 minute.

I am so disconnected from so much that it was only last night that I learned about the death of one of my favourite authors. She’s been a part of my life for many years – via her books. Marion was a Glaswegian. She has written hundreds (well, many) novels. And I’ve mentioned her many […]

Analysing Lady Macbeth

Saturday, 3 October 2020, 13:46.Reading time 2 minutes.

Today – Lady M would be labelled a DISTORTED FEMININE. A woman who ruthlessly seeks HER wants and needs through her famous spouse. She ridicules him. Manipulates him so much that he comes to a crucial point in his life when the ONLY thing he can do to appease her malicious and baleful nature, is […]

Lay On, MacDuff

Saturday, 26 September 2020, 15:28.Reading time 1 minute.

If you did NOT get the pointed reference from the previous post. Let me clarify. THRICE! GB 29th May 2019 : “MOST SACRILEGIOUS MURDER…” SAID BY MACDUFF According to tradition, the ceremony of crowning the monarch was performed by a representative of Clan MacDuff, but Isabella arrived in Scone the day after the coronation of Robert the Bruce […]

HISS&HERS

Friday, 4 September 2020, 15:32.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Guess what I’ll be re-re-re-listening to tonight! Because I’m SURROUNDED BY THEM – Both HISS&HERS And If I shout SNAKES & BASTARDS one more time today……….!

The LAST STRAW!

Sunday, 9 August 2020, 12:43.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I give up! No point. Pointless. Nil points. This poor but silently famous writer has been out yt’ed. BASTARDS!

A LINK Day (!)

Saturday, 8 August 2020, 13:16.Reading time less than 1 minute.

God’s Honest Truth – Last night I was listening to the book above and then, today, THIS is uploaded!!! There is a link between them :o) Clue : Sticky or Water Soluble!

THE SICK TRUTH OF OLD MENTAL ASYLUMS

Thursday, 6 August 2020, 12:55.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I was watching this and the name Nellie Bly kept bugging me. Then I had an AHA! moment. Of course. Tut! By The Pricking of my Thumbs : Agatha Christie. There’s a character called Nellie Bligh. This Nellie in the video below was either Very Brave or Extremely Crazy (?!)

CHOICES!

Friday, 24 July 2020, 16:23.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I’m dithering in my choice of audiobook to listen to tonight in bed. Prankster or Witch ? Witch or Prankster? Mmmmmmmmmn.

Sonsie

Wednesday, 15 July 2020, 13:46.Reading time 1 minute.

Woah Back. I’m more up-to-date than I thought. The vidja below was uploaded a week ago. Woohooooo! Anyways….If you’ve read/loved/read again M.C. Beaton’s Hamish Macbeth books, you’ll know ALL about Sonsie. The Highland Wild Cat that he found dying on his doorstep one day. And how he just about bankrupted himself to save Sonsie’s life. […]

Highlands & Islands

Saturday, 11 July 2020, 13:31.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I love that phrase. And I know someone (with more Scandinavian DNA than me) who has a far greater knowledge of the Isles than I do! Slàinte mhath, fellow Outlander :o) One day we may get to The Orkneys and the King, Hereafter.

Hey, Narc. U Don’t OWN ME

Monday, 22 June 2020, 16:54.Reading time less than 1 minute.

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.