Burke & Hare

Thursday, 31 October 2019, 9:25.Reading time less than 1 minute.

How about a wee bit of grave robbing for Halloween? Discover with Pajerico Happy Samhain to those weirdos like me who understand ;o) From : Goddess and the Green Man

Knights Templar

Thursday, 31 October 2019, 7:30.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I’ve always loved a good Templar story. Static in the Attic plus one. Brilliant :o)

You Can Blame it on the Ottomans

Tuesday, 29 October 2019, 8:36.Reading time less than 1 minute.

And Lady Mary too! Yup. It’s all there in the “history” books. Early 18th century. And – it’s written in stone too. They did it!!!! A Pox on them.

New Zealand Skeletons in the Cupboard/The Redheads

Monday, 28 October 2019, 12:19.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I won’t do the old Emu thingy. Oh! Shoot :o(

The Foul and the Fragrant

Monday, 28 October 2019, 11:12.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I loved this book when I first read it. I’m loving it even more now :o) Attempting to put the sense of smell on the historical map, the author of this book conveys the power that smells – from the seductress’s civet to the ubiquitous excremental odours of city cesspools – exercized over the […]

Easier Said Than Done

Monday, 28 October 2019, 10:54.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Deconstructing a BS Historical “MYTH” that’s been around far too long is easier said than done! Here we meet the Mainstream story of Nakşidil Sultan and Selim III and why they are connected to Napoleon. Here, also, is the French and English fighting over who gets the biggest part of Tartaria – after the Romanovs […]

Oh Well. What a Pity. Never Mind!

Friday, 25 October 2019, 8:08.Reading time less than 1 minute.

It’s obvious that FEB doesn’t know my work. But someone else does (!) The MAB- IN- OG- ION. The MOST Famous Central Source of WELSH Myth and Legend. Wow! Wanton theft?

Deeper and Deeper

Sunday, 20 October 2019, 9:02.Reading time 1 minute.

Flag of Trebizond Wiki : Thomas MacKenzie The Highlander who founded Sevastopol. Khouter MacKenzie, in the Crimea, is so named from Admiral MacKenzie, who. commanded the Black Sea fleet under Katherine II, and fortified Sebastopol. In 1738 MacKenzie of Conansby was a colonel under the Empress Anne, and Captain MacKenzie of Redcastle, another […]

True Colours

Saturday, 19 October 2019, 14:24.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I’ve held off – too many times. Ours is not to reason why Alfred, Lord Tennyson? My homie :o) According to local legend – he left Lincolnshire because the plebs were all illiterate. Oooookaaaay

Leghorn

Friday, 18 October 2019, 15:03.Reading time less than 1 minute.

OK. This gets weirder by the day! Still investigating my ancestors and I came across this strange but connected fact… LEGHORN. What does it mean? Let’s go to the all-seeing – Wiki : Livorno Now. What does that have to do with the 1770’s, the Romanov, Scotland. the Imperial Navy and the Admiral? Go away […]

Heads Up…

Thursday, 17 October 2019, 17:00.Reading time less than 1 minute.

…I have a Cunning Plan Oooooh. Why not USE & ABUSE anything and everything GOOD, TRUE, VALUABLE & GENUINE? Oh,. Yes. I like it. A lot. (Dumb and Dumber vibe?) Anyhoo – How Big is YOUR World? How many feel that it is their God Given Right to RULE it? Take it or Leave it. […]

The Deadly City – Standing In The Red Zone Of Fukushima

Thursday, 17 October 2019, 13:10.Reading time less than 1 minute.

All is Fair in Love and War… The earliest known origin of the sentiment “all is fair in love in war” is found in poet John Lyly’s novel “Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit,” published in 1579. Sad is me. I like Josh :o(

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.