“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.”
Have you ever tried building a Memory Palace? I have. It’s bloody hard work and takes Forever! If you choose to go down this route, you will be spending a lot of time and energy i.e. you will have NO Time to do anything else. Hint. hint! Apparently, the “Ancient” Greeks are famous for building […]
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Why is everything today either Shallow or Empty? And I mean EVER-BLOODY-THING WHY? :o|
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Amazing! All of a sudden the long nightmare of Northern Ireland has just made the news headlines. Surprised? Ulster is a beautiful country filled with the friendliest, funniest people I’ve ever met. Here we go round the merry-go-round…! Pish.
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Respect is not a word I use lightly, or very often but the one-and-only-historical-fiction writer that I give Respect to is Dorothy Dunnett. If you don’t know her vast body of work, then this will mean nothing. If you do – you will not like what I’m about to say! What did DD actually know? […]
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What Do You Believe? Only the Good Die Young Dog Eat Dog Original Sin Man is Intrinsically Evil It’s Dangerous Out There Hate Breeds Hate Our World is a Sphere The Only Things You Can Rely on are Death and Taxes There are more than Two Genders Thank God it’s Friday Might is Right Only […]
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I love planting seeds and watching them grow. It feeds my soul with all that is good and true and pure. Most people will find this video Boring. Yawn. Zzzzzzzzz I found it beautiful, fascinating and not-a-little-awe-inspiring. The beauty of Nature at its natural best :o)
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Man has Seven Ages…Woman has Three. MAN All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms. Then the whining […]
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Have you ever heard of Chopines? I have. They were all over my 17th century research. One of those bizarre things that I love to look into :o) This is a pair of Chopines. They were The Fashion from about 1400-1700, apparently. Not exclusively female but much associated with courtesans and prostitutes. Why? […]
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Taking time out has its advantages…..and disadvantages. I’m so fortunate. I rarely get ill. But the energy lately has Bombed. Sick and drained. Time for the tried and tested Vegetable Soup. No. I’m not Vegetarian but this is my stand-by. It never fails :o) A Do Whatever You Need to Do to Feel Better Recipe. […]
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Thoughts of the day… What happened to mankind after the arrival of the printing press? The pen is mightier than the sword (?) Who do we value (and pay) today? The writers of words on paper? Before the Printed Word -as in there for all to see on a piece of paper so it must […]
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I live in Victorian Rectory. A vicarage….just behind the village church. For the past few years the church has been on/off renovated and a new steeple built. It was all finished the end of last year and the clock reinstated. Not the picture above. I only wish. Sigh. Yippee, said I. We will hear the […]
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This began with reading about the Bayeux Tapestry in the light of New Chronology and my own emotional resistance to something that now makes COMPLETE SENSE. I will return to the whys and wherefores another time but the postulation is that the Bayeux Tapestry doesn’t depict the Battle of Hastings 1066 but the Sack of Constantinople […]
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