“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.”
There is not a day that passes when I’m not STUNNED by mine own ignorance! I’d never realised just how much of an influence Kirsty had been on me. GB 4th July 2019 : Eddi and Kirsty I soooo love this song! And I had no idea that KMac was a backing singer for Simple […]
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I’ve talked quite a lot here about my paternal family and their being Scottish Presbyterian. I’ve also talked a bit about anagrams. OK. Prove this FACT wrong ? An anagram of Presbyterian is… … BEST IN PRAYER Not that this means anything important. It’s just one of those things that JUST ARE!
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I’ve just spent several hours piecing together bits and pieces that I could find from a book referenced everywhere. Suddenly – I come across a picture of the cover of said book and Cuss Loudly. That looks familiar. I rush to my shelves and sure enough, the bloody thing is sat sitting there!!! Oh. I […]
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The Almaboobies is a great punk rock band from the UK plays Cafe Frederiksberg in Aalborg, Denmark. – Victoria Ellis: guitar & vocals – Elizabeth Ellis: bass & vocals – Alexandra Ellis: drums Bigging Myself Up Today :o) I know these gals. I’ve spent time with them. Their mater and pater are good friends MANY […]
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A doorstop (aka a very thick slice)of Freshly Baked Bread, either raw or toasted. Lashings of Salted Butter and a Mahoosive layer of Dundee Marmalade. Droooool. But more than that – it has been far too many years since I’ve had a marmalade making day. I’m loving this lass. She has a onsies too. And […]
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OMGiddy DNA! I’m so excited. I’ve just found out that I have Crawford in my DNA!!!! COUSINS Maybe not the fictional Francis Crawford of Lymond. VOTED ONE OF BRITAIN’S FAVOURITE HISTORICAL NOVELS Before George R. R. Martin there was Dorothy Dunnett . . . PERFECT for fans of A Game of Thrones. ‘She is a brilliant story teller, The […]
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An article that I wrote about 15 years ago is still being used in schools world-wide today. It was about scent and the Middle Ages. All these years later I’m still studying the subject. The book above is interesting – not least because I now place the “Ancient Romans & Greeks” on a different timeline […]
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…Much as I love you. Please……Puhleasies…stopping playing French men in movies. Especially Charles VII who betrayed Jehanne d’Arc. Or Johnny English’s arch enemy? Please? P.S. A THREEFER. Natalie Imbruglia (Johnny English’s Saviour) – TORN? I LOVELOVELOVE this song. As if y’all didn’t guess :o)
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Being totally, completely and utterly rejected by a certain “Truth Community” for telling (ahem!) TRUTH, has been beyond painful for me. The bans. The insults. The humiliations. The #NASTIES. Who’d ever want to be subjected to anything as Soul Destroying as that? OK. Whatever. Moving on. All the above has – in TRUTH – been […]
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I’m Not a Scientist. Can someone answer this question? The Sky Never Stops Raining/The Rivers Flow/The Springs Spring. Are Tears Eternal? P.S. This is Catherine Zeta Jones’ auntie Bonnie!
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Crying your eyes out is NOT a good look to carry :o( I’d’ve never chosen to watch this film but last year we had Netflix fans staying and I gave one of them full control of the Telly Box. WE HAD to watch this film. I’ll never watch it again. For me it is the […]
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A bunch of ne’re-do-wells got a break from working (sometimes) 20 hours a day in a dangerous environment. We all piled on a bus that took us from Londonderry to Larne. On a ferry from Larne to Stranraer. (Barf?) Back on a bus from Stranraer to Stirling – where the Lowlands meet the Highlands. A […]
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