“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.”
I was given this book as a gift. It’s a bit tatty now yet still loved. It’s the kind of thing a pathetic, worthless HOUSEWIFE enjoys. Jane Brocket delights in domesticity. Lively, curious and creative, she takes inspiration from her surroundings, from art, literature and nature and, through the gentle arts of knitting, baking […]
Read More
I have just about ALL of Christina Strutt’s books. This is a fave. Shoot – long overdue a reread. I’m long overdue another reminder of how and why and ……..:o) Saving the planet for future generations is a laudable aim, but why wait when quite small changes to your lifestyle can make a big […]
Read More
Mary Renault is a fine writer. I’ve loved her books. My sadness, now, is that I can no longer read them with the same joy and excitement :o( In the first novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created […]
Read More
NC (in the excerpt below) makes this V.I.H.P. Basically – the damage had Already been done before they decided to play jiggery pokery with Chinese history. It makes sense to me :o) The landmarks of the parallelism between the Chinese and the phantom European history before the X century A. D. We haven’t […]
Read More
OK. I’ll stop complaining about the huge puddles in my garden!
Read More
When you go to sleep thinking of something. Wake up thinking of something. It’s a sure sign that “something” is bothering you. Here (I think) I see — The Moon. The Sun. Judgement. The World. The Fool. A Page. A King. The Hierophant. ? Is there anyone out there who knows this deck or can […]
Read More
😺 The last of four. Bless her. She lost her twin brother and her two mummies. I called her Meggie #2 Wiki : The Thorn Birds Crap photo. But the dog’s Elmo in the background screwed it up!
Read More
An abbreviation consisting of the first letters of each word in the name of something, pronounced as a word I swear (!?) as soon as I post something that someTHING doesn’t like – my internet goes down. Let’s try this… GMT, BST, EST, EDT, AEST, UTC, HAST, IST, It makes NO Difference whatsoever. EVERYTIME WTF? OMG. ROFL. LMFAO. Oh. I’ve […]
Read More
I think of Viking when I see that. But then – I’m unashamedly biased :o) From NC : The identity of the “ancient” Chinese Mongols. References to the Mongol inhabitants of the Ancient China are unlikely to surprise anyone – the modern Mongols still live there, and the modern Mongolia borders with China. These […]
Read More
Aka a Rayburn. I have an oil-fired Rayburn, Same colour as above. The oil delivery (after spending an arm/leg/two spleens) was promised this morning. 7…SEVEN hours later, it arrives. Why so late? My cunning plan. Chez moi doesn’t show up on any SATNAV. Oh. Not so cunning plan :o(
Read MoreUrm. Guess wot! I Can Do That.
Read More
Holy shadows of the dead, I’m not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing […]
Read More
