“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.”
I’d bet that most people in the UK have heard about Broadmoor Prison/Hospital. Few know about it’s history though. And fewer understand (!?) Like so many similar Enormous, Elaborate buildings in this country, it was built in the second half of the 19th century…as an ASYLUM! Gordon Bennett – we must’ve had so many #MAD […]
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IN DECEMBER 1926 Agatha Christie disappeared in bizarre circumstances from her home in southern England. The discovery of the crime writer’s abandoned car led to the biggest manhunt in British history for a missing person. Eleven days later she was found in a northern spa town claiming to be the victim of amnesia. Until the […]
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I actually paid money to itunes to download this audiobook. Mine is narrated by someone else. I think….nope….I KNOW that I prefer this narrator and #freegratis :o(
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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 (?!)
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In the early years of the 20th century the phrase, See you, Oscar, was Glaswegian Slang. It meant – See you, Oscar Slater/See you later. There are many reasons why I love Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle. George Edalji was not the only Real Life person whom Conan Doyle saved. There was also Oscar […]
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As in New. Not done before. I’m giddy, fizzy, dizzy about the singer/poet person. Did you know…Kate wrote this song when she was 13 years old. She recorded it 3 years later. What did she see/feel/know about This Man? Did she also see the amazing, unique, loving, beautiful child behind the MASK? Y’all’ll have to […]
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According to SOMEthing (?) Tick Tock? I WANNA BREAK FREE? Staying ALIVE?
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Sherlock has exited stage left. Nothing will come from NOTHING. Dr Watson was/is EVERYMAN. The quintessential nice guy with a good story to tell. Sherlock was/is the ANTI-Hero. No friends. No love interest. Easily bored. And despairing of the yakkity yakkers. And ALWAYS, in the background, lurks MYCROFT. The biggest know-it-all ever born. Then you […]
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Unless y’all are False,Fake,Foney or In a DEEP Psychic Vampire Sleepy Sleep …..y’all’ll’ve SEEN Tartaria LOUD AS/OBVIOUS AS/IN PLAIN SIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!? FFS. WAKE UP and See the SYMBOLS PLANTED EVERYWHERE. Puhleeaassssse!
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The name above I told you that I had a “funny” feeling about today. It can go one way or the other. Schwing….It’s just gone the other :o( P.S. WTF is it about Irish Victorian Writers that bring out the Vampire/Stranger/Weird as Fluff in everyone? Answers can be sent to : P.O.Box. I’M A CONSULTING […]
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Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again! There is something (and nothing) in my life that I have never spoken of to a living soul. NEVER. NO ONE! Because I feel so much like Cordelia. The eternal outcast who speaks at the wrong time and says nothing at the wrong time …..King Lear is telling his […]
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Sorry to disagree, Dave but…. …I’d personally up THAT ratio. Just MY Experience.
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