All of last year was spent making my own clothes. I’m a HUGE/Vociferous/Dramatic Advocate for Natural Fibres and Textiles. Both of my shops were centred on this. The wools/yarns/threads/clothes. The Big THREE for me are Linen, Wool, Cotton. Then having met my Alpaca men – Alpaca. Also bamboo. All my clothes were made using the… Read More Slow Stitching & Slaveys
Henry the Hoover seemed determined to force me into a suicide pact today. The little git. My neck hurts but the bastard machine fought me every step of the way so I abandoned him in the hallway and swooned on the sofa! Today is Victorian Maid Day. Clean this. Scrub that. Move the other. Psssht.… Read More I Want To Break Free
As you can see in the image above – this hateful little critter in my kitchen is showing me why I’m so freaking cold. 10 degrees C. In my kitchen. WTF? I know I come from cold, cold, COLD climates via my ancestry but…I HATE BEING COLD. HELL, to me, is a COLD place. :o(… Read More Ideal Home Temperature : 21 degrees C
Yes. Guttered but also gutted. Big Swear Words. We’ll have no trouble cleaning a huge section of our Victorian Cast Iron Guttering this spring. Why? Because it’s now on the bloody ground!!! A whole corner of the house has lost it’s gutters. They are so old that they corroded and the recent rain did the… Read More Absolutely Guttered!
Lennox, son. Lennox. And the album that I tortured you with was Diva. Mmmm. We are in need of about £30,000. The hole in the roof has had babies. They are now Holes – plural. And we’ve run out of buckets. C’est la vie. Que sera, sera. I saw Annie and Dave live in a… Read More Annie Something – As the Boy Called Her
And I’ve no idea why!!! I don’t look for the eff-ups in life. I’m an optimistic, positive person who always expects optimistic, positive events. Then – some total bastard up there suddenly decides to give mea kick up the arse. Just because they can :o( It’s been almost a full week now of complete and… Read More Currently Under the Effect of SOD’S LAW
Free Willy LMFAO :o) Did I spy a Vespa or three? POUT
Another thunderstorm. Yay…..or not. OK at night but in the day time they can be a pain in the bum. Living in a little village in the middle of somewhere – our leccy supply is a bit hit and miss. Electric on. Electric off. Even one second off can cause chaos. The boys set up… Read More WOW! Two Days in a Row!
Over the past couple of months my online fabric buys have been pretty good. ebay. Cheaper than a shop. But the image above is my first mistake. IRL – the fabric is a disgusting shade of pale orange/beige/yuk. I spent a few years as a retailer (owning a real, physical shop) dealing in fabric and… Read More The Trouble With Buying Online
OMG. He says : I’ve got a present for you. In the back of the van. Me : M’eh. It’s Ewan McGregor WTF. GetouttathewayMOVEWhereEFFINGGETOUTTATHEWAY….EWAN? Well. A sack of grass seed is choosing life. I guess. Disappointed? Moi? Whhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. sob. EeeeeeeWaaaannnnnnnnn! Such is life :o)
Girl Monday and I were talking yesterday about our county and how, when we both returned about 20 years ago, it was still forgotten. Sleepy. Old. And a place where only peasants lived. We both live in “the gateway to the Wolds.” Fast forward to now and, even without a motorway, we have been INVADED.… Read More No Longer “The Forgotten County.”
Lordy, Lordy. We Brits are so effing evil….off camera hoity toity snigger :o)
Moved on to somewhere new. I’m doing the AltHist of Dido of Carthage now and I was brought up short by the name Elissa. What the fluff? Dido aka Elissa? Then it got into bull skins/ox hides and snake skins/ dragons on leads and defensive walls and….I stopped. Then I started again with yt. Expecting… Read More Elissa or Dido?
When I was in the army I had a 24 inch waist. I’ve still got my No.1 Dress Uniform Belt to prove it. UK size 8/10. Which I kept for many years, even after childbirth. And then something dreadful happened when I hit 40. I went to my Doctor and asked if I was starting… Read More Lounge Pants Explanation!
You might’ve guessed that I’m a huge fan of Cosy Mysteries. Hamish Macbeth being a point in case. Even Agatha Christie started off in this genre. I have the perfect plot for one of my own! One of my boys is definitely a foodie Black Sheep. He doesn’t eat Sunday lunch or the Full Christmas… Read More The Christmas Cosy Mystery : Who Nicked the Salmon?
…It has been a very long day and I’ve just had a child walk in as I watching this on the TV who announced – Letterlocking! What the Fluff? How did he know that and I didn’t ? I’m the bloody historian…….!!! Pout. ********* Letterlocking is the act of folding and securing a written message (such… Read More Much as I Love Learning New Things….
LOL! This is an OLD advert. I have a fondness for Chintz…in small measures. There has been an unexpected side-effect of my recently acquired Organisational Skills. I’ve suddenly created FREE TIME. Along with moments of peace and serenity. Whaaaat? It all comes down to 3 questions : Do I like? Is it good? Is it… Read More Chuck Out Your Chintz
In my head, way back when I climbed mountains in Glencoe, I SWEAR that a wild haggis tripped me up and made me slide down several feet on my arse through the scree. The little bugger was quick but I heard it giggling. Bastard Haggis :o) Sense of humour failure ended! Laugh
Yesterday I wrote about our Rayburn, the price of kerosene to fill it and being surrounded by trees. Oh. I pulled something bitchy into MY reality. The Rayburn ran out of oil today. Sulk. And a huge tree fell down, over the pond and crushed my fave bench. And the chainsaw is broken. Sigh. My… Read More Shut My Mouth…ZIP
Back in the 80’s the entire Ku’Damm was THE most famous brothel in Berlin. And on our “beat.” Of course. Being the only girl in the platoon, they HAD to take me on a night out…in a bar aka brothel…with porn on every TV…on every wall. That was tame though. If I’d been a 20year… Read More I Was Blooded in the Ku’Damm
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)
OK. I’m obv’s manda-ella afflicted. I watched a video earlier from a channel that I’ve been subbed to since the beginning of his quest. It was very informative. I learned a few things that I didn’t know but which make sense. Now that video has gone. Hey, Guys. All I did in between was cook… Read More To Madness & Beyond
Was it something I said? Yup. I might’ve pointed out that not only had he painted the doors and architraves but…the pictures, the light switches, the floor tiles, the wall, the sofa, the door bolts, the floorboards, the……..! I was told that I could leave home any time and find myself a Toy Boy. I… Read More Boy Toy vs Toy Boy
This has been such a trawl for me. Being a writer, I know the cause and effect rule. I know how to use it. I know why it is used. But can I explain any of the above? Nope. Or maybe : This happened. Then this happened because that happened. Then because that happened (and… Read More Why Does Cause Come Before Effect?
Mmmn. Wiki vs Real Life ? Tamzin spent time at a secret location in Hampshire to start training for this “role.” HIMSELF was one of her trainers. And, by jingo, was he a happy chappy? OH YES. He was already in lust with her tall (? she’s two inches shorter than me…pout) , blonde looks… Read More RED CAP
Myself and three other “idiots abroad” stumbled on an amazing restaurant in Paris one night. It was also a JAZZ Club with a live JAZZ band. Me and one other ordered burgers. WELL DONE. I’d already learned from previous experience here that French Chefs refuse to understand the Well Done meat. As in cooked and… Read More Steak Tartare
He took himself, youngest son and best mate to Mauritius for a week of fishing to fulfil a dream. He WANTED to catch a Marlin. Youngest is his mother’s son. Seasick as… BUT – he caught the Marlin. After hours of fighting. And then. And then. The skipper killed it there and then. Gutted and… Read More Be Careful What You Wish For!
FACT :o) Thank you for the music. I’m in total AWE of ALL musicians and always have been. I missed that gene :o(
One is in the kitchen and one in her work room listening to Viking Sagas. The child separated us to stop the bickering :o) Oh. Poop. He is with the food. And I’m not.
OK. Been to Dubai many times. Ridden a camel there. And THEY think I’m worth just ONE Camel? Reddit post : I just got back from Dubai where I was offered 40 camels for my wife. C’mon, dearly beloved men. Even I would trade me in for a whole flock of camels, I annoy myself… Read More Trade Your Wife For a Camel
OH. I have NEVER seen any of The Matrix films. Never felt the need to. But I just typed Merovingian into yt and THIS came up. I was confused. What do The Long-Haired Kings (Merovingian) have to do with a H/wood film? Affiliation. The Merovingian (sometimes called The Frenchman) is an old, powerful program that… Read More The Matrix Reloaded – Merovingian
Why? He told me to stop trying to something that I am NOT. Just be YOU, Jackie. OK. Message received and I’m now pouting. What a F…Liberty!!! Let ME Entertain Y’all :o)
Uncontrolled Historian 