Raising Your Standards

I know, coming from a multi-generational military family, that STANDARDS are flags. I even know a little bit about the history of STANDARDS. They are called several names : Colours, Flags, Oriflammes, Pennants etc To Raise The Standard used to mean To Fly YOUR Flag. As High As Possible so that everyone could see it. […]

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Fear, Sneer & Edward de Vere

What with Blue Clay and William Carpenter : neither of which I’ve seen mentioned on the NEO-Mainstream Yt Truthy channels : I’ve reached a revelation. What certain peeps FEAR most and SNEER at so often is someone who comes along, williy-nilly, and chucks a different way of thinking at them. It causes BRAIN FREEZE and/or […]

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In Times of Plenty, Prepare For Times of Want

August has always been the time when I prepared for whatever a UK winter could throw at us. I’ve been blessed with a windfall (out of the blue) that will allow me to buy oil for the Rayburn to cook with and heat all our water 24/7 and logs and coal for the wood burner. […]

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Freaky Friday : I Did This on the 7th of April 2020

And again not that long ago. GB 7th April 2020 : Ring A Ring o’ (Corona) Roses Ring A Ring o’ (Corona) Roses Tuesday, 7 April 2020, 15:55 PUHLEASE peeps I’m begging y’all. STOP with all your yt False. Fake. Foney. BS ? Just give a UAH a fecking voice? P.S. Bergamot Essential Oil is […]

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Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?

Say what you like about Boy George. He was born different. Some of us were. FACT! I remember my Dad’s reaction when Culture Club first appeared on Top of the Pops. What is that? He demanded. I can overlook everything about the BS surrounding George. It always was, is and evermore shall be HIS VOICE. […]

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The People Who Shaped ME

His name is Jim. He was a school mate and a good friend. He is very like everyone else in my school. Well – the 50% of us that said TFAYCD. TFAYCD – A Boothby Graffoe song. Of course we had the usual goodygoody kids in the class. Then there was me and K and […]

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The Norns : Are NEVER OverWritten

At the risk of sounding all hinkydinky and hippytrippy, I’ve always known that this was my last shot at this stuff. That the curtain would fall when I do. My only EVER truly desperate wish was to have children. And I have. I can go (when I go) happy and fulfilled. This is probably the […]

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The 39 Steps Lead to Ariadne

This is….convoluted. Ariadne’s thread helped Theseus/Perseus go to slay the Minotaur (Ariadne’s brother) in the labyrinth and return safely. Theseus/Perseus abandoned Ariadne after all she had done for him so she married Dionysus. John Buchan (Scottish) wrote this book in the early 20th c (published 1915) Hitchcock made a film (m’eh) Robert Powell played Hannay […]

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Je Suis IRKED

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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Bell,Book & Candle : I Am NOT Without Symapathy But…

…If you invite them in. Your problem. Not MINE! The phrase “bell, book, and candle” refers to a Latin Christian method of excommunication by anathema, imposed on a person who had committed an exceptionally grievous sin. Evidently introduced by Pope Zachary around the middle of the 8th century, the rite was once used by the Roman […]

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All My Chickens Are Roosting : Penelope Rich

GB 19th October 2018 : Did Mary Sidney Write Shakespeare’s Plays? Even I had no idea about What an Absolutely Tangled Web I’d Woven! I’m absolutely loving this man and his knowledge because (although he has no idea) he HAS brought so many of my lines of research together. As stated in the old post […]

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