“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.”
What does this mean to you? I heard many years ago that the term, an acronym of “Not Available For F***ing” originated in the UK gay community and gained by extension the sense of “no good” or “useless”. It was a phrase used commonly in the British Comedy Porridge. Set in the fictional Slade […]
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My eldest son had a sneezing fit in the car this morning. I said the C word (NO. Not THAT one!!!!) And he said something about the Simpsons episode. Japan and flu. We both had a good laugh remembering :o)
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I’ve got this book and read it. Ooops. Re-wind. I’ve got this book and tried to read it. And also one about the Mid -evil Irish Laws that governed women. If you’ve ever come across either and tried to make sense of this BS – you’ll understand where I’m coming from. Short GB précis of […]
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Before I pass out from exhaustion. What is the meaning of the young girl in the RED COAT? You see it, when you see it. Schindler? Little Red Riding Hood? Don’t Look Now? And on and on and on! Why? What? Where? When? How? WHO? “I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all […]
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The Scoundrel’s Dictionary, the anonymous 18th century pamphlet, has amused me for a few years now but it is quite hard to read in the original type-setting. Too many OLDE WORLDE confusions of S and F. Anyway, in this monograph I have modernised much of the original 18th century spelling and included several annotations to, […]
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When I was training as a police person, I used to play The Dead Body for the new SIB trainees. Wiki : SIB It was always in a horrible room full of glass jars with organs of fetuses and cut throats and brains. Yukky. Anyways – a year later when SIB asked me […]
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I’ve gurgled these namesies and come up with several things. One is : Final Fantasy Nameday. 20th Sun of the 3rd Umbral Moon. Guardian. Rhalgr, the Destroyer. City-state. Ul’dah. Grand Company. Maelstrom / Second Storm Lieutenant … One is something written in Greek so I can’t translate. And then a Twitter link to boiiari. Whatever. […]
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The title of my novel is a deliberate mis-quote of a Richard Crashaw poem. I explained this in May 2009 Wishes to His (Supposed) Mistress And I might’ve/could’ve said before that my fave poet is a homie. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Born a handful of miles from here. And my fave Tennyson poem is […]
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So there! Anyone else feeling exhausted/deflated/wrung out? I thought I was just being a drama queen but everyone around me is the same. Drained! Trouble is – when I get like this, the Virgo in me rises and I go into full OCD Mode. Stay away or else you’ll get cleaned. Tidied. Organised. I took […]
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If y’all know even the basics about astrology – you’d KNOW that the sign of Pisces is the OLDEST. I’m not an astrologer but even little old me knows that. The zodiac works BACKWARDS. Aries – Newest/Youngest SIGN ??? We go from—– Pisces. Aquarius. Capricorn. Sagittarius. We are moving outta the Age of Pisces into […]
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I used to live a hop and a skip away from Petersfield. And when I was there, I knew that Ms Driver was “connected” with the town. Wiki : Minnie Aha! Being a peasant, I’d not heard of… Wiki : Bedales BTW – Petersfield had/has the BEST second hand bookshop EVERS. With the […]
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This was pointed out to me not an hour ago. With lots of scoffing and laughing :o( ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes dies after crash-landing homemade rocket SMH!
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Hidden History Research 