Mercury RE-trograde

Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 14:54.Reading time less than 1 minute.

But – as I’ve said before – What do I know? I’m not an astrologer. Anyhoos – bandy about these two words. Mercury. Retrograde. All you wantsies but Do U Know what it means???? From an astrologer : EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MERCURY RETROGRADE It is all in the RE bit. […]

Great Respect for The Man in the Van

Wednesday, 19 February 2020, 8:26.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Brilliant, Mr Attic :o)

Holodomor

Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 16:51.Reading time 1 minute.

Wiki : Holodomor My Brillopads weekend guest from Wales has just left chez moi. He’s a walking, talking encyclopedia of 20th century “War” history and has spent two days telling me about his trip, late last year to Chernobyl, and the Holodomor and the museum he visited and the women (all Middle-aged/Old) who were DESPERATE […]

OK. I Am STILL “Rolling in the Deep”

Saturday, 15 February 2020, 15:30.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The Hungarian Borderlands and Crisis in the Ottoman Empire in the Late Sixteenth Century

National Treasure

Saturday, 15 February 2020, 13:07.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Lady Macbeth is heeeeeerrrrrre. Stealing AGAIN!!!!!!!! Look up Boundaries, Lady M And Beyond The Pale Aye???

How to BE a Writer : Lesson 1

Saturday, 15 February 2020, 12:09.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Every REAL writer knows the first 2 MAJOR rules of writing. Show, Don’t Tell. Less is More. And – taking these to heart – I’ll do my REAL job and Endeth the Lesson here!

Charles Perrault vs Brothers Grimm

Friday, 14 February 2020, 17:01.Reading time 1 minute.

Briar Rose vs Sleeping Beauty Wiki : The Legend of Briar Rose My absolute fave Pre-Rafa painter HAS to be Burne-Jones. And I love and adore his series of paintings about this legend of the Briar Rose and Sleeping Knights. “The threat of war, the hope of peace, The Kingdoms peril […]

Stefan Lazarević

Friday, 14 February 2020, 16:17.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Maybe I, ever so humbly, suggest that you research the name above. And also the ORIGINAL meaning of the word DESPOT? SMH!

Harem

Friday, 14 February 2020, 7:51.Reading time 5 minutes.

For nearly four centuries, the Ottoman sultans dwelt amid the secret splendors of Topkapi Palace. Access to the Grand Seraglio–which served as the empire’s administrative, legislative, and judicial center and an academy of fine arts, as well as the ruler’s home–was jealously guarded, even after the sultans ceased to reside there in the mid-nineteenth century. […]

OTTOMAN ARTILLERY AND EUROPEAN MILITARY TECHNOLOGY IN THE FIFTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

Thursday, 13 February 2020, 14:07.Reading time less than 1 minute.

OTTOMAN ARTILLERY AND EUROPEAN MILITARY TECHNOLOGY IN THE FIFTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES – GÁBOR ÁGOSTON

Voltaire’s 1778 ROMAN Funeral

Thursday, 13 February 2020, 12:17.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Freaking Voltaire. Never liked him much when I was researching my novel. Bloomin’ Know-it-All. (Voltaire that is. Not…) … Mr Attic

Toot & Anook

Thursday, 13 February 2020, 6:33.Reading time 4 minutes.

I’m still on the trail of Ankhesenamun, wife of Tutankhamen. Wiki : Ankhesenamun Now. If New Chronology are right and Toot was really the child Tsar Dmitry, was he married? So many questions. So few tangible answers. How frus-bloody-trating!!! From NC: TUTANKHAMUN AND CZAREVICH DMITRY. By calling a young pharaoh Tutankhamun, we rely on […]

The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the centre of the known world, Jerusalem. Come and be my fellow Far-Farer. Come travelling and unravelling with me through Wales, Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Russia, Constantinople, Italy, the Balkans, the Holy Land. Come and Far-Fare through every degree on my 12th century compass.