White Crow by Mary Gentle

The White Crow, one-time Soldier-Scholar of the Invisible College and a practitioner of Hermetic science and magic, and Baltazar Casaubon, architect and lover, a man not too particular about his personal hygiene, are two of Mary Gentle’s finest creations. The worlds they stride across range from the Renaissance city where aristocratic rats rule the human […]

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Walk On By

I could’ve done the “Sugar & Spice & All Things Nice” BS with Dionne Warwick but… …In my heart and soul, I’m a PUNK. A Rebel. A Dissident. An Anarchist. A FREE SPIRIT. Then & Now – Punk Speaks to me. So “Make MY DAY, Punk” :o)

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CARRY ON, Dick ‘ead in a MASK!!!

A thousand stories but always the same plot line, characters, acts, denouement, crap ending! Stand and Deliver. Your Money or YOUR Life! Timon of Athens V ibe STILL extorting money with menaces!

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Caught, Tau(gh)t and Bound

Loving Mr AG-D right now. Andrew Graham-Dixon interviews John Lydon  I’m one HAPPY soul :o)

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PiL vs Keats

I’ve just had a wonderful mental image of what a “love-child” of John Lydon and John Keats would look like :o) P.S. WTF and How The Fluff did Johnny Rotten know about La Belle Dame Sans Merci ?

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Enter Two Gardeners

This was the last episode of Rosemary and Thyme (weep) I post it for a very special friend :o)

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A DANDY Highwayman

I watched this “Forgotten Lives” video a few days ago and had an AHA moment when the name Plunkett was said. All I kept thinking about was…. the amazing soundtrack of this film :o) OK. So. We get a bit of Begbie/Hamish Macbeth and a bit of Sick Boy/Sherlock Holmes plus a Loud LOT of […]

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Offensive Weapons

When I was a stupid/silly kid, the most offensive weapon we could use in the classroom was ~: Tear out half a page of your exercise book. Put it in your mouth and chew. Spit it oot. Get your ruler. Place wet paper on the end. Bend ruler backwards and………Let Loose. Fluff. It could travel […]

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No More Heroes Anymore

They’ve been strangled. Or Tavistocked. Or…….? Stay Punk! We live in an upside down/back to front world that is ruled by Free Will. Pays/collects yer money. Makes yer choice! #TRUSTNOONE. Not even me :o(

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