I AM Bovvered

Wednesday, 6 November 2019, 13:10.Reading time less than 1 minute.

What is Corned Gunpowder? Never heard of it before and it’s bothered me all morning. Enter the fount of all whatever… Wiki : Gunpowder Oooh Kaaay. Clear as mud. More research needed.

The Wild Hunt

Wednesday, 6 November 2019, 9:49.Reading time 1 minute.

From the Peterborough Chronicle 1127 : Many men both saw and heard a great number of huntsmen hunting. The huntsmen were black, huge, and hideous, and rode on black horses and on black he-goats, and their hounds were jet black, with eyes like saucers, and horrible. This was seen in the very deer park of […]

Military Engineering in the Ottoman Empire

Wednesday, 6 November 2019, 9:24.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The Ottoman Turks may be called the Romans of the Muslim world. They imposed a definitive order upon what had developed earlier: a bureaucracy, a legal system, and Sunni Islam itself, with its balance between two ways of looking at religion, as a system of ideal social behavior and as a path towards experiential knowledge […]

Brighton Pavilion?

Tuesday, 5 November 2019, 17:12.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Wiki : Royal Pavilion Blackadder? Where are my socks? Oh. Not funny. WHERE are MY socks? Some little bleeder keeps nicking one them. I’ll just have be odd. Heyho!

The Viking Spirit

Tuesday, 5 November 2019, 11:20.Reading time 13 minutes.

I love Daniel McCoy’s work. This book is fabulous and so is his website Norse Mythology for Smart People. Please check it out. I’m very drawn to Freya. Mrs Story/His Story? I just read the myths and legends slightly differently nowadays :o) From https://norse-mythology.org/ FREYA “Freyja and the Necklace” by James Doyle […]

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Tuesday, 5 November 2019, 8:57.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Wiki : Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite A “take-it-or-leave-it” post. The Celestial Hierarchy Go away, Robbie :o)

Ottoman Seapower and Naval Technology during Catherine II’s Turkish Wars 1768-1792

Tuesday, 5 November 2019, 8:26.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Mmmmn! I’m having a Clutter Clearing day today. Out, out, damn BS. Ottoman Seapower and Naval Technology during Catherine II’s Turkish Wars 1768-1792

Owl of Athena

Monday, 4 November 2019, 16:58.Reading time less than 1 minute.

5 to 5 here. Dark. And the owls are calling. I just heard ’em. Wiki : Owl of Athena

Brigid

Monday, 4 November 2019, 13:49.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A statuette in the Museum of Brittany, Rennes, probably depicting Brigid or Brigantia: c. 2nd century BCE FeckWiki : Brigid It has been suggested that Brigid is a continuation of the Indo-European dawn goddess. She is associated with the spring season, fertility, healing, poetry and smithcraft. I’ve been reading about the Irish Immortals. The Pagan Goddess Brigid. Imbolc?. […]

Kiss of the Whip

Monday, 4 November 2019, 9:38.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Y’all may get the wrong idea about me but…m’eh! It’s called RESEARCH! On my shelves, sitting right next to the earlier “Kinky Boots” book recommendation, is this one. The Kiss of the Whip, the Horrors of Centuries of Whipping. All those vicars who lived here before me will be shaking their heads in despair.

Goosey, Goosey, Gander

Monday, 4 November 2019, 7:35.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Uh, oh. I’ve just been goosed. Have very dare you? Goosey goosey gander, Whither shall I wander? Upstairs and downstairs And in my lady’s chamber. There I met an old man Who wouldn’t say his prayers, So I took him by his left leg And threw him down the stairs Nursery rhyme first “recorded” in […]

OTTOMAN WARSHIPS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN ARMADA OF 1538

Monday, 4 November 2019, 4:25.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The Anonymous Venetian? Oooh. The plot thickeneth, forsooth and perchance? :o) OTTOMAN WARSHIPS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN ARMADA OF 1538

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.