“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.”
Elisiv of Kiev has been on my list of important subjects since December 2018. The Many Hidden Mysteries of Grand Tartaria Below is not the perfect video for my point but it’ll do. MY DNA. I’ve talked about quite a bit : 36% Scottish, 29% Scandinavian….1% Russian. As we are talking about almost 1,000 years […]
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There are many people more qualified than me to quote the chapter and verse here but…. So the soldiers did these things, 25 but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. In my own research I completely agree with the four women. But […]
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That’s all I said after telling the uncle that his nephews were Very TALL & Bulky. 6 foot 6 and 6 foot 3. Uncle nodded wisely : Something in the water up there! My boys are blow-backs from generations long gone. CRABBIT = ME on a bad day. Hagliatelli is brother’s new recipe. Work that […]
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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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I know, coming from a multi-generational military family, that STANDARDS are flags. I even know a little bit about the history of STANDARDS. They are called several names : Colours, Flags, Oriflammes, Pennants etc To Raise The Standard used to mean To Fly YOUR Flag. As High As Possible so that everyone could see it. […]
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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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Thanks to an amazing friend, I learned quite a bit about Alasdair and the Lord of the Isles. She is much more Scandinavian than me. “They” say that Mac Colla was 6ft 7inches…though slightly shorter when “they” beheaded (?) him in Ireland. Mac Colla’s father Coll Ciotach, who was again taken prisoner at Dunyvaig, was […]
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Oh, yes. In commentaria :o) Myth & then Eddi.
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I put them both in the same category. Thieving. Lying. Criminals. Rob Roy would have spoken pure Gaelic. Unless he was wheedling his way out of a tricky sitch via the English. Did Rob Roy speak Gaelic?HIGHLANDS AND LOWLANDS Lowlanders spoke Scots, for example, a blend of English and Gaelic with French influences, which Sir […]
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OK. Left to me. I can do this. L’il Jackie Greig aka Great Brookes is STILL forbidden. Hunted. Trashed by people who believe that the world started in 1850 (?) My children will NEVER be proscribed. As I Live & Die I WILL reclaim MY family. P.S. I don’t like CAMPBELL’s. Sorry. It’s in my […]
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We have some of this in the MAN Bar. Tho’ the youngsters all seemed to prefer Jack Daniels. Go figure. I tried it. YUK x YUK times More Yuk. I’m a snob. Johnny Walker Black Label or N O spells NO :o) P.S. I never watched Outlander because I had an issue with Sam Heughan […]
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Last night I was caught short aka needed a wee. I left my ipad downloading The Secrets of Pain audiobook by Phil Rickman. I went back to said ipad and found – The Prayer of the Night Shepherd downloaded. TRUE. FACT! OK, said I. Emma Powell narrates. I love her voice. I love this story […]
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