Books, Books, Books

Thursday, 28 November 2019, 8:10.Reading time less than 1 minute.

With Words, Words, Woooords! On my shelf. BS History but still a keeper :o)

Glittering Prize

Sunday, 24 November 2019, 12:02.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Happy Birthday to Me :o( Shakespearean Drama is Me!

My Sign. My Time. My Voice

Saturday, 23 November 2019, 17:25.Reading time less than 1 minute.

What You Do With What You’ve Got

Saturday, 23 November 2019, 16:54.Reading time 2 minutes.

you must know someone like him who was tall and strong and lean with a body like a greyhound and a mind so sharp and keen but his heart, just like a laurel grew twisted round itself till almost everything he did brought pain to someone else it’s not just what you’re […]

The Norman Theory

Friday, 22 November 2019, 8:45.Reading time 3 minutes.

There are plenty of sources out there “explaining” The Norman Theory. A Good Place to start is — Encyclopedia of Ukraine I’ve covered bits of 1066 and all that here. Let’s see what NC has to say about The Norman Theory : It should be abandoned the idea that the chronicle records that […]

Abandoned Squatters Way

Thursday, 21 November 2019, 14:54.Reading time less than 1 minute.

OMG. Just uploaded. For someone who utterly despises latecomers…..Urm. ??! I’ve missed the Start of the Race too many times just lately. Heyho. Pajerico

Clare Grogan

Monday, 18 November 2019, 16:13.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Starred in two faves of mine. Gregory’s Girl. And a brilliant Father Ted Episode. BTW. This coming Sunday. Billy Connolly and I will be celebrating….:o)

Teuchter

Monday, 18 November 2019, 15:59.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I know he’s a Glaswegian. And I am Teuchter. I still love him to pieces.

Observable. Repeatable. Reproducible.

Sunday, 17 November 2019, 13:59.Reading time 1 minute.

MY KARMIC LOOP is all the above. 1617 till now. This day/hour/minute/second. And…AND it was written in LAW. Child of the Mist It was ordained that the name of MacGregor should be abolished and that the whole persons of that name should renounce their name and take some other name and that […]

The Scots Language (or Dialect?!)

Saturday, 16 November 2019, 12:17.Reading time less than 1 minute.

My sincere apologies to the maker of this video. But… …! Now. No. I don’t speak Gaelic (btw-and I could be very wrong here-but I thought Scots was GAY-lic and Irish was GA-lic.) Shrug. By the by the way – I know Geordies. Lowlanders and Highlanders.

Death of a Liar

Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 15:45.Reading time 1 minute.

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small village of Cronish in the Scottish Highlands. She has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose. But upon further investigation, Hamish discovers that she was lying about the crime. So when the same woman calls him back […]

Curling

Tuesday, 12 November 2019, 14:55.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Urm. Guess wot! I Can Do That.

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.