Charles Perrault vs Brothers Grimm
Briar Rose vs Sleeping Beauty Wiki : The Legend of Briar Rose My absolute fave Pre-Rafa painter HAS to be Burne-Jones. And I love and adore his series of paintings about this legend of the Briar Rose and Sleeping Knights. “The threat of war, the hope of peace, The Kingdoms peril […]
Read MoreStefan Lazarević
Maybe I, ever so humbly, suggest that you research the name above. And also the ORIGINAL meaning of the word DESPOT? SMH!
Read MoreLife Lesson #Zillion and Hundreds
If there is ONE lesson that I have learned – that will take me to the big, blue yonder – it’s this… We Mere Mortals Know NOTHING We Mere Mortals Can Prove NOTHING We Mere Mortals Are NEVER Meant to KNOW IT ALL WE, you and I, are here for one reason only. To […]
Read MoreGiddy. Gutters. Guesthouse.
Feeling giddy this afternoon. The gutters have been fixed. Wooohooo. We will not all drown. So to celebrate I’m watching Guest House Paradiso. It’s stupid. Crude. Anarchic….Well, it was written by Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson so par for the course. Bloody Cambridge Footlights Comedy Acts ! #Road to Comic Fame & Fortune. Look it […]
Read MoreIronic
Boyce and Guest doing one of my fave Alanis Morissette songs. P.S. We have a Bangladeshi/Scottish friend from Aberdeen who, whenever a bug lands in his dram (black fly in your Chardonnay,) grabs the little beastie, shakes it and shouts, “Sput ut oot, freeloader!” LOL :o)
Read MoreYou CANNOT Be Serious!
Well. This says it ALL! I buy the puppy a huge, comfy new bed to help his ageing bones and this is what he does. Fills it with teddies – and is then either too polite or too silly to move them. And ends up with his back end on the cold, hard floor. Some […]
Read MoreThe Holy Grail
Via a Tarot Card A film And a religious belief. Take YOUR pick. Make YOUR choice! Happy Valentine’s Day all :o) P.S. I AM NOT being facetious. Nope. Not. No way!
Read MoreSleepers, Awake
Sigh!
Read MoreSoda Bread
Having lived in Ireland twice, we have a penchant for soda bread here. Good old peasant food. And the easiest bread to make. Just 4 ingredients. Flour. Bicarbonate of Soda. Salt. Buttermilk. Buttermilk? Not a staple here so I use ordinary semi-skilled milk and squeeze half a lemon in. The whole secret to this bread […]
Read MoreHarem
For nearly four centuries, the Ottoman sultans dwelt amid the secret splendors of Topkapi Palace. Access to the Grand Seraglio–which served as the empire’s administrative, legislative, and judicial center and an academy of fine arts, as well as the ruler’s home–was jealously guarded, even after the sultans ceased to reside there in the mid-nineteenth century. […]
Read MoreBooyakasha
Evidently Evidence. I like it :o) TY, Mr Tonic
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