SNAKES & BASTARDS

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I just had this impulse to shout out Agatha Raisin’s Fave saying. Why? Tourette’s? Work it out, peeps :o) I’m surrounded by snakes and bastards (?!?)

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80 Years Minus 10 Days Later (?)

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As in : 31st August 1888 >>>>>>>>21st August 1968. A leap in place and time from London to Firenze (a place SO HIGH on my list of “places to visit before I die”) Does History Repeat ? ? ? WTF?

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Brilliant Insights

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I knew absolutely Zero about the Dalton Minimum etc until I started watching Static last year. I’m still unclear about the science but I do know a little bit about history. SO MANY dates line up here. Thank You, Mr SitA for the research and the BRILLIANT weaving together of historical and “right-in-front-of-our-eyes-today” Truths :o)

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I Have Been Ordered…

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…by the powers that love me. To stop “knocking my pipe out” and rest. Thank you, says I. I’ll sit at the kitchen table and watch a series (made from the late Ruth Rendell novels, starring a man whom, if I’d met him many decades before I was born, I might’ve “knocked my pipe out” […]

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Message In A Bottle

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Gotta love a childhood friend catch-up. She was all MacWoodFleet, Lynyrd Skynrd, Dire Straits and a bit punk. I was all Marc Bolan, Peter Frampton and Adam Ant and Sham 69 and The Pretenders and Blondie and Sex Pistols and The Police (a bit, slightly, more punk?) I still (despite the BS) LOVE these toons. […]

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Peace & Quiet

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From my earliest memory, I’ve always asked, pleaded, begged for peace and quiet. Now I have it. Freaked out, moi? OK. Default, programmed mode for a moment. Manuel’s in Charge :o)

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HeatStroke

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I’ve just mutilated a Holly Tree and about 1 hundreth of a Hazelnut Tree (one year I’ll dang well get them hazels before the fecking squibbles who just bury them all over the lawn!!!) in the blazing sun with my bran new long-handled Wilkinson Shears. Very satisfying but… …Feeling a bit fizzy now :o( Catching […]

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Knock, Knock.

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Who’s there? Friend or Foe? So, you’ve knocked on my back door and I’ve let you in. Turn right and you’ll see the image above. An old pew rescued from Tattershall Church when the philistines ripped them all out and replaced them with hard back chairs! A home made quilt (with Kaffe Fassett mad and […]

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Where There Is Muck, There Is GOLD!

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Teeth gritted every single time I see this channel recommended. No Offence but……? Anyways and by the by…May 25th 1551…the South of England had an earthquake. Or did it?

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Multi-MULTI-Tasking ?

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I still have a love/hate relationship with this crew. I don’t think that they FULLY understand what they are revealing ? But who am I to criticise them? It’s just their style ;o)

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I Am NOT A RipPerologist

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Or am I ? This showed up as I was doing something else so I thought – Heyho – yet another one. Let’s watch. And I did…OMG…several new ideas came to me about how/why we’ve been fed this “history story” for so long. Irish. Jews. Whitechapel – (even the name is a clue?) Poor and […]

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