1996. TRAINSPOTTING : Portsmouth

Films for me are remembered by their dates and where we lived at that time. 1996. We lived in a secret location in Hampshire. Portsmouth was a half hour drive away. So, one night, we had a babysitter and drove to Portsmouth to watch Trainspotting as soon as it was released in UK cinemas. We […]

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U Can’t Touch THIS : DrOOzeTrews

OK. Bizzarrio. I’ve talked about this here and also in a long gone Yt Live Chat. I’m close to a man who spent time in the Golem Heights With the Drooze. Shooting across the valley after eating. In the UK we have After Eight Mints and a Brandy but – Whatever! Q – why is […]

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What’s The Story Ipomoea?

Ipomoea : (A Wexford Case) Ruth Rendell. Roxane’s shoes. The leaf was not from a wild plant but from the cultivated climber Ipomoea rubro-caerulea, the Morning Glory. I’m in Distraction Action here ! One of my favourite Ruth Rendell Inspector Wexford books is the one in the image above. I’ve planted and grown ipomoea/convolvulus in several homes. […]

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Reading The Runes

OK. Here’s a prediction. Within the next few days we will have hexperts on Runes all over whytoob! FACT Nevertheless and whatever : I have Rune Stones. This is not a subject that I’ve had the time to study in depth yet… but, I kind of know the basically basics. I have a long Academic […]

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The Club Dumas : Arturo Pérez-Reverte.

I was advised to read this fictional book MANY years ago as I researched mine own novel. The Club Dumas I WILL admit to missing many of the references within the book. A Study in Scarlet? Dante’s Divine Comedy? Milton’s Paradise Lost? Gone With the Wind? Moby Dick? The Hunchback of Notre Dame? I once […]

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Francis Healy : Go AWAY?

Writing to Reach You? How Very Dare You steal MY words? F’kin Glaswegians!!!!!! Peasants. The lot of us ! Hurrummmph :o(

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William RusselL Flint : (4 April 1880 – 30 December 1969)

WRF The image above is a very bad picture of my front room. Shrug. I’m blaming my tools! The focus is the picture straight ahead. A William Russell Flint print that I’ve spent half a day trying to find on the internet. I started collecting his prints when I was in my late 20’s. This […]

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How Clean Is YOUR House?

OMgiddyauntfanny. I used to LOVE this programme :o) Aggie and Kim. Scary. BTW – Any…ANY “man” who calls in his monkeyGIRLS to do HIS DIRTY WORK for him is…Lazy/Uncaring/Unbothered/Castrated/UNWORTHY. Just my opinion based on MY real life experience with Dirty Men and his Monkeewrenches!

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Echoing the 1st June 2019

GB 1st June 2019 : Echo Whaaat? First Orpheus and Eurydice. Now Echo and the N A R C ? OK. I’m having a Greek Myth day today. Woohoooo. Quite happy with that :o) P.S. This was posted a couple of days back but I’ve only just seen it!

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Talking about Having a Pash :o)

He’s BACK! With another Ulster boy who has kept that accent…the one ingrained on MY Mind, Heart & Soul! I don’t know the filum but I want to watch it – NOW. Go away!

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What About The Vegetables?

I was in Hong Kong when Maggie’s funeral happened. It was on the hotel room TV…but I was #distracted !o) This is probably the BEST 11 seconds of Spitting Image. EVER! They were always Vicious!

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