“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.”
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 […]
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 […]
It took me many years of deep research from many different angles and via many different sources to finally connect the family of VOIVODE VLAD DRACULESTI aka Vlad the Impaler aka Dracula to the Hidden History of Tartary. AS far as I know – correct me if I’m wrong – I’m the only person to […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!
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!
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!
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!