“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.”
Hey. I can dumb down too :o) BTW : Katherine Swynford (buried in Lincoln Cathedral) had a sister called Philippa. Philippa married a man called Geoffrey Chaucer, who wrote something insubstantial and unimportant called The Canterbury Tales.
Read MoreI learn each and every day. P.S. I’m quite familiar with this accent…took a while. This vid has words. No worries :o) OVER SOUL ? Have I just gone Way way way far beyond the 3/4/5/6/7D? How very dare I?
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Based on decades of deep research. There are far too many coincidences and parallels here that defy logic. Self Quote : July 2019 Who Wrote the Sibylline Oracles? Read the above- at the risk of cancer LMFAO And then compare it to something that FEB told me PUBLICLY that he was far too busy (aka […]
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Since when did Killarney become a National Park? I’ve read the Annals of Innisfallen. Brian Boru and his grandson Muirchertach Ua Briain must be turning in their graves. Muirchertach Ua Briain had a bit of a tiff with Magnus Barelegs, King of Norway about the title of High King of Ireland. Enter the Ravens of […]
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D’y’all know this song? Maybe not. It’s a “traditional” UK song called A Mother’s Lament. David sings it at the end of Taken at the Flood. See below. Your Baby Has Gone Down the Plughole(A Mother’s Lament) Traditional Song A mother was bathing her baby one nightThe youngest of ten and a delicate miteThe mother […]
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The video below had me scurrying to my shelves to disprove wiki info. Darn. St Bart’s WAS “founded” by a jester called Rahere. Henry I’s jester. As in Henry I, youngest son of William the Bastard Conqueror. OG Source RRAN 2 (Regesta regum anglo-normanorum) numbers 1794, 1795, 1943, 1761…and NO…these are NOT dates. Anyone who […]
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I was looking for a “business” partner to share a new venture with and have received – out of the blue – an offer from a fellow historian who has followed my work for a long time. Way back since my Weave a Garland days in the early 2000’s. Woohoo. Time for a partner-in-historical-crime, methinks […]
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I was 12 years old when my Mum lent me her copy of the novel Katherine by Anya Seton. We were living here then, and it ignited my interest in local history. From Bolingbroke Castle to Lincoln Cathedral which are about 26 or so miles apart. And it also helped me with the English Royal […]
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Versus Pointy Phallus And yes. Iceland has a penis museum!
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Years ago I employed a local graphic designer to rework our company brochure. She taught me a lot via the new company logo. She said : Men always go for pointed/pointy symbols & women always go for roundy symbols. What goes to the Moon? Why? Look at the above words and THINK! We have lived […]
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Book One The prologue establishes an audience and a speaker, who defines himself by location, education, occupation, and his kinship with the philosophers Plutarch and Sextus of Chaeronea. The narrator journeys to Thessaly on business. On the way, he runs into Aristomenes and an unnamed traveler. The unnamed traveler refuses to believe Aristomenes’ story. The narrator insults the […]
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I’ve done Macbeth here so many times in so many ways. GB 29th of May 2019 : “Most Sacrilegious Murder…” said by MacDuff I went back to Barbara Erskine a couple of days ago and took down Kingdom of Shadows. BTW : I met Barbara in Lincoln and used to have contact with her via […]
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