“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.”
The image above reminds me so much of… The Steve Miller Band? Sheesh. I listened to about 3 seconds and was taken back about 1000 years ago to the 6 year long Battle of the Bands at QEGS :o) THE STEVE MILLER BAND ? ? ? Who the fluff played that over and again in […]
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OMGA! Ref : last post about photo shop…if you watch the video, around the 10 minute mark you get the Gabriel Báthory/Bethlen MurderMayhem story. As soon as I saw the name Battor on the image, my SpideySenses peaked. Yup. Gabriel was a member of the Ecsed Báthory family and thereby related to Báthory Erzsébet aka […]
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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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OK. I will give Ian Fleming the benefit of the doubt. Even though he sold his soul to a Vegetable……… Broccoli ??? I am NOT and never have been a James Bond Fan. A COLD, calculating, unempathetic, user of women. Yuk! Despite the #handsome/well-built actors (Timothy Dalton totally surprised me when he agreed to do […]
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I’ve just made myself ROFLaughing. Jo Brand eats Gummy Bears like I do. I have – IRL – dined with Royalty AND Beggars. And drank/drunk/drinked Cristal Champagne in the Savoy Hotel in London I can to POSHY Swanky POSH (Italian Risotto – #lovely- topped with foie gras -#disgusting -in the Prince’s Family Palace in Abu […]
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Henry IV, Part 2 – anyone? Yet another twofer. Bored yet ? ? ? BTW – I was called out on FB once for fancying “pretty boys.” TRUE!
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No one is going to believe this. Even I don’t believe this and it happened to me! I talked a while back about a necklace that I always wear. It was given to me by a dearly beloved after I’d lost my prized antique silver and amethyst one. A few hours ago, in the middle […]
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“fragrance was the sharpest trigger of memory, a transport into forgotten worlds.”― Anne Rice, Taltos There are two fragrances that I smell sometimes that remind me of my Nan. Anne. Violets and Vanilla. I’ve just walked into my kitchen and been hit, full force, with the fragrance of Vanilla. I almost fainted. If you have ever smelled […]
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Oh. ‘Struth. I’ve just realised that Eddi’s hair in this vid looks EXACTLY the same as mine. F1RST thing in the morning. Apart from the fact that about 6 years ago I stopped going to the hairdresser every 8 weeks and paying about a week’s wages to have the Grey Streak dyed by poisonous hair […]
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I have a whole (maybe) hour free. Ooooh. What to do? Dive deep into the 5 books and two theses for research or…watch this. Note to Miss Woodhouse (English teacher) I’m beginning to go right off you :o( You are the one to blame for making me remember Charles, Estella, Pip, Magwich and Miss Havisham. […]
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Bizarre happenings. Something queer about MY Rectory! OK. I watched the previous video posted about Tiger Bay but something REALLY bothered me that I just Could NOT catch. So. I’ve re-watched with subtitles. Around 8.27 the caption is……”well-known police informer called maigre/May Grey/Maigret. Sigh of relief. Madness confirmed :o) All I kept seeing whilst finishing […]
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Note to Self : Do NOT watch Colette with someone else in the room. And Do Not EVER speak your thoughts out loud, stoopid woman. Thoughts Like…..I’ve got those books too. She’s got a Swedish Rag Rug like mine. That’s an old hot water bottle on the windowsill. I’ve got a dog. Her floor looks […]
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