“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.”
FFS. OK. I know. Humour and Humbility (as M.Poirot calls it) are better than their bombs and their guns and their guns and their bombs but…there is a limit on the BS meter. Apologies, sincere and undiluted, to the maker of this. You say Drag – ut. I say Drag- oo. But I could be […]
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What is Corned Gunpowder? Never heard of it before and it’s bothered me all morning. Enter the fount of all whatever… Wiki : Gunpowder Oooh Kaaay. Clear as mud. More research needed.
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From the Peterborough Chronicle 1127 : Many men both saw and heard a great number of huntsmen hunting. The huntsmen were black, huge, and hideous, and rode on black horses and on black he-goats, and their hounds were jet black, with eyes like saucers, and horrible. This was seen in the very deer park of […]
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The Ottoman Turks may be called the Romans of the Muslim world. They imposed a definitive order upon what had developed earlier: a bureaucracy, a legal system, and Sunni Islam itself, with its balance between two ways of looking at religion, as a system of ideal social behavior and as a path towards experiential knowledge […]
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Wiki : Royal Pavilion Blackadder? Where are my socks? Oh. Not funny. WHERE are MY socks? Some little bleeder keeps nicking one them. I’ll just have be odd. Heyho!
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I love Daniel McCoy’s work. This book is fabulous and so is his website Norse Mythology for Smart People. Please check it out. I’m very drawn to Freya. Mrs Story/His Story? I just read the myths and legends slightly differently nowadays :o) From https://norse-mythology.org/ FREYA “Freyja and the Necklace” by James Doyle […]
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Wiki : Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite A “take-it-or-leave-it” post. The Celestial Hierarchy Go away, Robbie :o)
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Mmmmn! I’m having a Clutter Clearing day today. Out, out, damn BS. Ottoman Seapower and Naval Technology during Catherine II’s Turkish Wars 1768-1792
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5 to 5 here. Dark. And the owls are calling. I just heard ’em. Wiki : Owl of Athena
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A statuette in the Museum of Brittany, Rennes, probably depicting Brigid or Brigantia: c. 2nd century BCE FeckWiki : Brigid It has been suggested that Brigid is a continuation of the Indo-European dawn goddess. She is associated with the spring season, fertility, healing, poetry and smithcraft. I’ve been reading about the Irish Immortals. The Pagan Goddess Brigid. Imbolc?. […]
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Well. You can tell it Mercury REtrograde. Everything is a RE – RE: My EngLit Exam…a REally long time ago. This was one of the books we REad and got examined on. I REfuse to say anything about the REmarkable Actor heRE.
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Again with the glorious Dorothy Dunnett. Niccolò this time. With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among […]
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