I am PURE feminine. A girl. Female. With hormones galore and mood changes that challenge the gods. I AM HECATE. Goddess of the Crossroads. Macbeth. The Scottish Play. It’s been a long, long time :o) For the purity and beauty of language and emotion, HAMLET is supreme. But my heart lies with The Thane of… Read More Pure Feminine : With a Touch of Hecate…Which Witch Is Which?
Nope. Never been but will go one day. For me Orkney is part of my DNA – 36% Scottish/29% Scandinavian. It’s also where “Macbeth” came from. According to MSHistory. And Dorothy Dunnett in King Hereafter. King Hereafter was Dunnett’s tour-de-force wherein she conflated Macbeth and Thorfinn. A perfectly viable sitch in the 1970’s. Why not?… Read More What/Who/Where is ORKNEY?
Wayback to May the 31st 2019. NC and Shakespeare with a bit of me included. BTW : I truly believe in Divine Retribution/What You Give is What You Get. Just saying :o) Original Post O Horror, Horror, Horror ***** O horror, horror, horror!Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!…Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.Most… Read More O Horror, Horror, Horror : Macbeth
Original Post : “MY BOSOM FRANCHISED AND ALLEGIANCE CLEAR…” ***** Duncan: See, see, our honour’d hostess!The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach youHow you shall bid God ‘ild us for your pains,And thank us for your trouble. Banquo: So I lose noneIn seeking to augment it, but… Read More “MY BOSOM FRANCHISED AND ALLEGIANCE CLEAR…” 31st of May 2019
…do a full re-run of my work since 2018. I’ll start with Macbeth. And New Chronology. From 29th 0f May 2019 : “MOST SACRILEGIOUS MURDER…” SAID BY MACDUFF OR : For those who refuse to read my work “because it may cause me cancer” (ACTUAL COMMENT ON YOUTUBE)… …! I’ve always been more of a Baconian… Read More Right Place, Right Time To…
I beg to differ on Our Lady of the Library’s views of White Goddess and Graves. I’m an AltHistorian but each to their own. I do LOVE Hecate though. And she pronounces her name as I do. As for Macbeth and/or Shakespeare. I can bore the tail off a flock/shoal/gaggle of donkeys with that. By… Read More HECATE : Goddess of Witchcraft
Macbeth belongs in my heart but for the pure, sublime delight of words and how to use them – NOTHING beats Hamlet. There is Something Rotten in the State of Denmark….and it concerns the death of KING Hamlet and the marriage of his wife, Gertrude, to his brother, Claudius. I’ve only just watched Neil Oliver’s… Read More Words. Words. Words.
THAT Rose keeps blooming. A recent video shared here and a Australian ROSE has taken centre stage in comments. Talking about Hamish Macbeth. Kiss From a Rose. I loved this song for so long. Rosie kinda got got by the video creator who had never read the books – she’d read them all (!!!!) and… Read More A Rose By Any Another Name…
I posted the other day about Dr. Simon Forman, the Elizabethan astrologer, physician. He’s somewhat connected with the much better known Dr John Dee. These “physicians” were also astrologers and alchemists and occultists. They were seekers of knowledge beyond the earthly realm. For better or for worse. I, personally, believe that there was zero evil… Read More Simon Forman & Shakespeare
Not my personal fave. I paid for every single one on itunes. But this is OK.
I’ve been watching several videos about Act 3 Scene IV recently. And then Bruce just popped up. I’m the Ghost at the Feast. The murdered, the un-silent silenced. The reminder of deeds done that cannot be undone. The instruments of darkness tell us truths
Of all the scenes in Bram Stoker’s book (and there are many that freak me out….Renfield?) The THREE Weird Sisters (get it?got it?good!) that Harker meets on his exploration of the castle is uber creepy. Why 3? 1 would do. IMHO. But then Stoker is well-known for picking bits from here and there. Like we… Read More Always the 3
Not in my lifetime hopefully. They 2 can crack on. In thunder, lightning or in rain? We have a storm coming in tonight. YAY. I adore thunderstorms. Met Office followed by Ken and the Weird Sisters. By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes :o)
I’v always blamed Lady M for the past almost 4 years. But… …She was also failed. Something happened over a decade before that led to her campaign of destruction. She was replaced by another. Maybe several others, for a time. Hell hath no fury etc etc. But – credit where credit is due. She was… Read More CASE CLOSED : FILES BURNED
Cruella de Ville The Wicked Witch from Oz That Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Queen Madame Mim Mrs Danvers Baby Jane…etc But the best of the best will ALWAYS be ???
She is gonna love this validation. Me watching her watching me. India. Mmmmn. A long running saga since 2019. Hast milady Macbeth returned after being so long away? Yesterday I had 47 Indians watching. Today – so far – 14 WTF is she so scared of? OUT, OUT, DAMN SPOT
It may be no surprise to many but – I LOVE Macbeth. This play could be the background story of my life. Lady Macbeth : Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair. This is duplicity. This is a woman who will do and say ANYTHING to win high honour and rewards. Ya gotta love a… Read More Word of the Day : Duplicity
Kenneth Branagh? YES. Too Obvious though. It’s a quote. See above. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas is one of those books that I like slightly less than the David Suchet TV version. Only slightly. It is such a fitting book for me to listen to tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. Christmas Eve….! I love Mara though. SPOILER… Read More What Connects Poirot & Macbeth?
The Winter Solstice and mayhaps the date of birth of Andronicus and his twin brother, John. It is also the wedding anniversary of my parents…and my brother and his glorious, gorgeous wife – who was born on the 21st of December. Tomorrow is the shortest day and the longest night here in the UK. It… Read More Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow : 21/12/21
My Arse! I’ve been judged. Time after Time. By people who don’t know me and have never met me. Ergo : The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction. Y’all can’t take just one Biblical Judgement to favour. I WILL JUDGE THE JUDGERS….in one word – TOXIC It has… Read More “Judge not, lest ye be judged”
There is a local legend that Lady Godiva was a local woman. From Bardney. About 10 miles from here. Dorothy Dunnett wrote about her in King Hereafter – her novel about Macbeth. Who knows which tale is TALL? Don’t Stop Me Now. I’m having such a good time, having a ball :o)
I could go so deeply into this but I’m all organised out, right now. Maybe tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. Dorothy Dunnett : King Hereafter. Ken Bran being Gorgeous (why did I NOT meet him?) Phil Rickman’s obsession with healing barrows and stone thingamebobbies. Orkney. Dwarfies. Dry Stane Walling – I grew up with this… Read More Dwarfie Stane
Or – the South Land of the Vikings. Whichever. Seeing as they share the same latitude. This place is as far north west as y’all can go on mainland GB/UK. Having read every single Hamish Macbeth book by Marion Chesney aka M.C. Beaton, from thence comes my only knowledge of the place. Apparently it’s…beautifully harsh.… Read More Sutherland
I’ve come to terms with the reality. I will always be the Ghost at the Banquet. The unwelcome guest. The spirit of a murderee. Never the Queen but one day – my children may have peace and honour. Nothing wasted. It has been ALL for them :o) **** Lord Banquo /ˈbæŋkwoʊ/, the Thane of Lochaber, is a character in William Shakespeare’s… Read More Banquo’s Ghost
Sorry. Ken first then Alan. Tomorrow I may have time to watch the Welshies and Alan. I’ll post the latest video here today to remind myself tomorrow & Tomorrow & TOMORROW. Effing Macbeth. Effing KenBran…schwoon :o)
I’ve spent a few days trying to unravel the 13 Swords of King Arthur. And it’s given me one big, bad headache. History is a PERFECT confusion of False Facts and Supposition and Outright Lies. Anyhoo – apropos of nothing – I decided that Mordred owned the 13th sword. He was, after all, the arch-traitor… Read More Mordred to Macbeth
The number 3 has an infinite number of connotations. Today I’m doing the Tesla Trilogy with reference to my own 9 personal favourite Goddesses. Staring in Greece, we have the Moirai. In, Scandinavian, there are the Norns and in Macbeth, the Weird (WYRD) sisters. All Fates representing Past, Present and Future. There are many other… Read More The 3,6,9 of Goddess – ness
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I love this book. Death of a Scriptwriter. Patricia Martyn-Broyd, now in her seventies, has retired to the Highlands. She hasn’t written a word in years and her books are out of print. But now a television company is about to film her last detective story, featuring the aristocratic Scottish detective Lady Harriet Vere. Even… Read More Hamish Macbeth…Twice
The point that I was here to make was this: Go With The Flow is how I live. I go where the four winds blow me. That’s my FAITH. So. My stupid. I think of a river in spate and the land of my fathers and I type “scotland river in spate” into youtoob. A… Read More Sometimes I STUN Myself : Go With the Flow
Something that my Dad did (me also) that freaked my Mum out. The eldest ALWAYS sends half of his/her wages back to the family until the second eldest is old enough to earn a living. Mum always said that the only person she ever feared was Lily, Dad’s Mum. The TARTAR supreme :o) She was… Read More Highland Tradition
I was early for my dentist appointment several years back and went to the local newsagents. I bought Agatha Raisin & the Haunted House to read whilst waiting. I read on at home and then threw the book across the floor in a tantrum at the bad writing. My bad :o( I now have every… Read More Death of a Gossip & Death of a Cad
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