On the 7th of July this year my husband and I will have been married for 40 years. OMG. BRB ! Taking my head out of the food blender :o) Yup. One man. Two sons. 40 years. Ruby Wedding Anniversary. We were asked what we were going to do by the boys. DO? What/Why? DO?… Read More 7/7 or To Us Brits The 7th of July
We were side-swiped last Friday evening by a new arrival in the household. OK. Rather perturbed. But the little one is pure punk. She’s already beating the crap out of her older “brother.” I’ve Never had a girly puppy dog around me 24/7 before. :o)
A child of mine insists that there is no such thing as “generations” because squillions are born every day. And he still lives here with his parents! I remember the 1970’s VIVIDLY. Everyone and his uncle were on strike. No rubbish collections. No water. No electricity. No trains. No nothing. That wonderful vibe of “not… Read More The Filth & The Fury : Needing To VENT!
My children’s grandfather was on Christmas Island when they did the “tests” in 1958. Most of his fellow Engineers have died of cancer. They campaigned for compensation from the Ministry of Defence and decades later, they got £5,000. Women in H.M. Forces who fell pregnant, whilst serving, campaigned for compensation because they were automatically dismissed,… Read More Oppenheimer : H-Bomb vs A-Bomb
Like Dubh Linn – Dubh (Doo) – means Black. Róisín is a girl’s name. It means Little Rose. Thin Lizzy – Róisín Dubh means….? If you want to watch a brilliant but quite dark UK police series, I recommend Trial and Retribution. The later seasons with Victoria Smurfitt as Róisín and David Hayman as Mike… Read More Róisín Dubh
No idea why I know this song! Confession – as nothing more than an Amateur Historian, this film pushes far too many buttons. What? An Aussie playing a criminal in a Hollywood film that changes the Stirling Monument into the Wallace Monument and makes Edward III of England the bastard of a Scottish n’er-do-well? And… Read More Hit The Woad, Jack & Don’t You Come Back No More, No More
Everything connects. Carol Kirkwood, Bryan Adams, Robin Hood, Pavarotti and The Cornetto Trilogy aka Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz/World’s End. Secret – My husband has the HOTS for this Scottish Lass! We were living in Gibraltar when Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves was shown on BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service) our only TV provider. This… Read More ‘O Sole Mio
Since 2018 I’ve watched and studied and then become online involved with several youtube content creators. They call themselves The Truth Community. Or, more precisely, The Tartarian Truth Community. The reality of the reality, even knowing where this could potentially go, shocked me to the core of my soul. For far too long self-harm (psychologically)… Read More Why Empaths Are So Hated by So Many
I adore these two. They make me smile :o) Being Brits, we (he & me) grew up with Mother’s Sunday Roast. It was sacrosanct. My mother once had a major melt down when my Dad, husband and two brothers went to the pub for a tipple one Sunday and fell back home an hour late… Read More Americans Try Cooking A British Sunday Roast, It Didn’t Go Well…
All last weekend I worked on rebuilding our 10 year old metal garden arch. Started outside – rain, wind, cold. Moved inside to Utility Room – cold. Moved again into living room in front of the wood burner. The pictures are rubbish. Yay. You can’t see the bamboo, twine, cable tied franken-arch. BTW : this… Read More A Thing of Beauty & A Wonder to Behold (?!)
I have made no secret of my admiration of John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten. “My advice is always to any member of the working class – Get Smart. Read as much as you can. And find out who’s using you.” Like all of us, John is flawed and has a few regrets but he’s also… Read More Was John Lydon Right All Along?
Back with Robert Louis Stevenson. It’s said that the RLS book Jekyll and Hyde was based on a real experience of Robert. His father had commissioned some furniture from William Brodie as some sources say. Or did he buy an antique piece of furniture made by the man? I claim the latter. The years are… Read More Deacon Brodie
I have a new appreciation for this tune. It’s well-known to me only via Jonathan Creek. The Danse Macabre is better known via my 17th century research. The Cemetery of the Innocents existed in Marie de Rohan’s time. It was well known for two things. The fast rate at which a body decomposed in the… Read More Camille Saint-Saëns : Danse Macabre
I was born with a PUNK soul. That’s so different from the superficial punk. It’s centuries of living, self-educating, winning, losing, loving, losing, hating, waiting, flying, dying. Punk is a visceral. And at its very core it is anti-establishment. It’s FREEDOM :o) Oh. And it hurts. By God, it HURTS :o) A few PUNK women… Read More STAY – PUNK!
When I watched 300, I knew zero about Gerard Butler. BUT – I heard an accent seep through every now and again that was far too familiar for me to pay any attention to the action. I was just waiting for Leonidas to talk. THIS IS SPARTA. Followed by Gerard IRL and There Are More… Read More 300 : There Are More of THEM Than Us
Frank Hembling. Englishman. Never Forgotten. He was my platoon sergeant when I landed in Berlin aged 20. He gave me the big (new recruit, first posting) talk. I Am Firm but Fair. He was known as FBF Frank. He didn’t much like the tweak of my upper lip that was the start of a smile.… Read More FIRM BUT FAIR with Cool Celtic Calm
I posted this film here last year but it was never viewed. Now that “the lads” have picked it up, here is another post with commentary from men around the same age as my boys. This was my childhood too but slightly different circs. Dad was a new bobby on the beat and much hated.… Read More A Slice of British Social History via The Filth & The Fury
There is so much speculation about this song’s meaning on line. Is it just about drugs? Is it about sex with a Mediterranean Woman with golden skin? Is it about Odysseus and the Sirens? Is it all the above? I have no idea. It has harpsichord in a punk song. YAY :o) P.S. Personal Opinion… Read More Golden Brown : The Stranglers
Some songs stick like glue when I watch t’internet. This is Song of the Day and dedicated to ? Wow. Just a bar of music can send me Back To the Past. Love it.
I actually said that today. As I’m moving large furniture around the kitchen with a very annoying crow (not) helper. Can a woman be a combination of Sherlock Holmes and Shirley Valentine? Damn Right. HI, Wall :o)
These two youngsters are so inspirational. I’ve been watching their journey for a few days now. An English 20-something lad and his Canadian 20-something girlfriend decided to buy a flat in Glasgow. But there was a bit of a hiccup at the auction and they ended up with a derelict building in Dunoon. Most youngsters… Read More If the Kids Are United
Aksing? WTF is AKSING? Queen and Alice and Victoria and Elizabeth and Alexandra (MY girls) Mix ‘n’ Match. End of term, last day before six weeks off, we’d all run out of school, ripping off our ties and blazers,dragging the satchels along the ground, throwing pens and pencils at each other singing this song.
I really like watching this Eclectic Beard and his reactions. He makes me smile. And Mzzz. P. Cunk is a girl after mine own heart. BTW : I once wrote an email to a youtube “truther” (name long forgotten) saying : Exit (Stage Left) Pursued by a BEARD. Slightly too subtle for him (!?!) Punk… Read More Cunk IS Punk
There is NOTHING wrong with Unique. Side Note : Personally, I’d shoot Mr. Blobby full of arrows. Also – Did you know? A biscuit goes soft when left uncovered. A cake goes hard. And Jaffa Cakes are a delicious gift from the biscuit/cake gods. Mad Dogs & Englishmen etc :o)
I love both these books. One was written by a Dutch woman. One by an English Herefordshire man. Both describe the place in my life right now and those I can tolerate. Explanation later. Hella Haasse This novel exemplifies historical fiction at its best; the author’s meticulous research and polished style bring the medieval world… Read More In A Dark Wood Wandering vs The Old Straight Track
Oooh. If you watched the Snatch video in the previous post about the Gypsy/Pikey/Rom and heard this song, this will make sense. If not – Your Bad :o) In a certain Alternative History place, the Gypsy has progressed from being the Mainstream History of the Fleeing Egyptians (hence Gypsy) and placed them as the Original… Read More The Punk Stranglers
OhMyGiddy Aunt. Lol aka Laurence Fox seems to’ve been scrubbed from youtube. All that work in Lewis and other stuff. He’s a regular GBN person. Like Neil Oliver. The outspoken. The Hidden. The Not Wanted. LOL? I shamelessly stole that from Phil Rickman. Merrily, Deliverance Minister/Widow/Single Mother/Anglican Vicar, and her “friend” Laurence (Ex-Rapist…set-up by mate)… Read More LOL aka Laurence Fox
Why pretend to be the “great I am” of the internet “truth” community when you’ve just left one herd to join another? All following a new leader. Where did originality go? Is it now a Crime? My youtube usage is deliberately restrictive so the only people who have ever resonated with me are Owen Benjamin,… Read More Original Gangster
No wonder I’m a perfectly rubbish cake maker. I just chuck everything in and hope for the best. Ask the family. My disasters are real and manifest. My father once threw a cake of mine out of the window for the birds and then apologised. TO THE BIRDS! True. P.S. I’ve hurt my back being… Read More From Julius Caesar to Take That via John Gielgud & Kenneth Williams
SIX BLOODY WEEKS! That’s how long those council workers (husband included) will have our town centre closed off because they are doing work on the bridge in Bridge Street. For the foreseeable future, to get into town, we have to use the bypass. Which is grid-locked. All day, every day. So I came up with… Read More Fast Car & 40 Acres
Billy Idol is pushing 70. WTF? Bloody youngsters think they have the whole world and everything in it and anyone over 50 is half dead. Not so, mes enfants. We can still ROCK. And look younger than y’all as we do it. Youngest son is at his mate’s wedding today. I’ve known the bridegroom since… Read More Once a PUNK, Always a Punk
3 songs for one Who sang the title? BFF will be here next week. Yay :o) We met aged 11. Both outsiders (from Military Families) who found ourselves in a tiny town in Lincolnshire being educated. Well – they tried :o) We both left home at 17. I went to live and work in Buckinghamshire… Read More When I Was 17, It Was A Very Good Year
Norma Stitz ? Think about it, yeah. I may be channelling the mad, bad, dangerous to know Spike Milligan. Or Ronnie. Or The Ripper. Peter Cushion? Vincent Prance? Never mind. Go back to sleep. Welcome to 1976 – the year of heatwave, rail strikes, rubbish collection strikes, electricity strikes, milk strikes, and the re-invention of… Read More Jackie the Ripper aka The Phantom Raspberry Blower
I mean, ffs, where do you go when your 60,000 beloved followers and income givers quote the coloUrs in Crayola to support your work? I have ONE follower. ME. I thank you :o) This is not the best day to upset me. FACT! Though I’m not averse to pissing off others :o) I remember 1976… Read More The FILTH & the FURY Part 2 : Crayola Wax Crayons
BIG shifts afoot. We are now tasting a small glimpse of what 2024 – 2043/4 will be like. Pluto has dipped his foot into Aquarius to give us a sneaky peeky. In mythology, Pluto is the god of the Underworld. He rules our desires, death and rebirth. Our metamorphosis into a something other. Aquarius is… Read More The Age of Aquarius?
Said it before. Say it again. When I was 5 years old I was given a huge book on Greek Mythology for Christmas. From that day to this I’ve loved the subject. Morpheus was the Greek God of Dreams and Sleep. He also gave his name to a opiate – MORPHINE. A few years back… Read More Twisted “Mystery History” of Morpheus
I love trains. Well, I used to love trains. Chugging over the Forth Rail Bridge (gateway to/from Edinburgh) with my Dad holding me up at the window to throw out a penny to the river. Priceless memories. It was said that luck was invited when a coin was thrown into Forth Bay, while passing the Forth… Read More Train Tracks
BFF & I have a cunning plan. We are both escaping real life, nicking a Campervan and finding a mountain and/or loch to live in the shelter off. Sans husbands, sans kids, sans drudge. Her ancestry is wonderful. Welsh, White Jamaican, a teensy bit of Scottish and her Dad was born of a German Baron.… Read More FREEDOM!
Yeah. I know. I’m still wasting my time and energy. Olde Worlde Buildings built by Tartarians and unbuildable now. Firkin Off. From about 17:20 here below – SEE A 14th CENTURY TUSCAN VILLA BUILT IN CALI _ FORN_I_A in 2007. I’ve Clashed and Punked the lot of ’em. Bastards. P.S. The very best Chardonnay I’ve… Read More Rock the Casbah to a 14th Century Tuscan Castle in the Napa Valley
There are many things that I love about John Lydon. He’s an historian and a Shakespearean. He’s a Gooner – supports Arsenal. He blames himself for Sid Vicious’ death. He spent many years caring for his late wife when she had dementia. He KNOWS life is shit/hard/painful but still cracks on. He outed Jimmy Saville… Read More The Filth & The Fury
I’ve always loved this film. It is so profound – even though it was written by a man. I can go through the worst of times. Say some dreadful things. Then I’ll end it all by blowing a raspberry…or smiling. :o) Growing up is giving up. Jackie Greig never went M.I.A.
It was so lovely last evening. Knock on the door. Son opens and I hear a manly hug and back slap. His mates walk into the kitchen, arms wide open for a hug from me. And it was a proper hug. Held for ages. When we upgraded the pigsty to a man cave/bar and all… Read More If The Kids Are United…
Neil has just posted. Sync? Dan “Green” and slow cooker. Hey. I’m allowed to embiggen myself. No one else will :o)
Way back in October 2019 I wrote a post about CNN (Chicken Noodle News) in HongKong and got this comment from Ms. LOL@NO.COM My ABSOLUTE TRUE REPLY was : And I’m still getting these kind of BS GTFouttaHere comments to this day. Why? We went to Hong Kong to visit our office there. FACT. I… Read More NVR4G3T : LOL@NO.COM
Punk and the New Romantics span my informative music years. Jeebuth. Boy George. Appeared in public wearing a wedding dress and a policeman’s helmet? Kudos. I’m not a Bowie fan but Himself has Vinyl Bowie. Originals. Words on Stream is now the Neo Duran Duran. P.S. My Dad saw Boy George on Top of the… Read More How about A PUNK Romantic?
Uncontrolled Historian 