“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.”
I’ve been looking at his pictures. Along with the V&A, I need to re-visit the National Gallery. I could spend a whole month there just gazing, wide-eyed and breathless. But I always seem to go with peeps on fast forward. Sigh. Wiki : Paolo Caliari Adoration of the Magi
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Below is Lady Mary’s letter home written in 1716. She’s travelled from England. She will get to Constantinople soon. At the moment she is writing about Trajan’s Gate. Something feels a little strange about her letters, methinks. Oh. At least she does not complain about the state of the roads. In fact, she’s quite complimentary. […]
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What’s a Divvy? To many it’s an airhead/stupid person etc. But – if you’ve ever read or watched Lovejoy – Divvy is actually short for DIVINER. In the Jonathan Gash books, and maybe not in the TV series (?) there’s a book mentioned several times. Antiques or Fakes by Charles H Hayward Now Lovejoy is […]
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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.
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Wiki : Pozzolana Puzzolana mortar (puzolan harcı) was composed of puzzolana85 and lime. It quickly hardened under water. In fact, this material (also called ‘Roman cement’) had long been used widely in underwater construction before the introduction of cement (Aksoy 1982, 73), especially in European hydraulic architecture during the eighteenth century (Merino 1985, 47).
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Something, someplace…Shrug. M’eh Has just decided that her family may be “Somehow” (God only knows how) “connected” with the Languedoc. S M H 18th March 2019 – Hidden History of the Cathars
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Lovely fruit. I have an orchard of apple trees. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Give teacher an apple. Apple of my eye. OMG. Eve ate an apple! Pomme…Pomona? Have you ever sliced an apple crosswise? Try it. You will find……….. The five-pointed star or pentagram is one of the most potent, […]
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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?
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Or are they dates? Okelydokely. This one has me TOTALLY confused!
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Greta Garbo I want to be alone Grand Hotel My ALLTIME, watched again and again B&W film. Joan Crawford at her most natural, beautiful. The Barrymore boys. Wow. P.S. Basil Rathbone. Hound of the Baskervilles. The original name Barrymore was changed. Look it up. I’d go to Nina, Pretty Ballerina by Abba but………………..m’eh. […]
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