My youngest, Ulster made and Ulster born, is still trying to get his dual passport. He’s a proud Irish Ulster man born of a half-Scottish mother and a half-Welsh father. I’ve talked lots about being a Dalriada and when the boy brought this up again in company (long story) I looked at him and saw… Read More Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is
Liminal is a favourite word. And a favourite concept. I live in this realm most of the time, questioning what is real and what is not :o) Chronicle is a great programme. Not denying that. But…Hunting For King Arthur’s Bones? In this day and age? How can you do familial genetics on Arthur’s family? It… Read More Entering the Realms of the LIMINAL
God’s Honest Truth. I almost got runover by an EV in our tiny Tesco carpark this week. Mother, said my son, you cannot rely on your hearing these days. Not Shit, Sherlock. The bastards creep up on you silently and – SMUSH. Yay, 20 points on the driver’s video game. I’m a petrol head. Land… Read More The Sound of Silence | My Real Life Experience of Electric Cars
Well. That’s my reputation ruined – Again. It has been exactly a year since our last oil delivery. The tank is in an outbuilding that I rarely venture into. So excited today to get our oil delivered for Christmas. Warm. Cozy. Brilliant Baked Potatoes. 24/7 hot water. WARMTH. Knock, Knock. He was a youngster. Late… Read More The AxeWoman Cometh :Health & Safety Gone Mad!
That’s it. I’m broken, bruised and bloody. About 12 years go, in my innocence, I planted two “climbing” roses at the front of our house. Paul’s Himalayan Musk and Rambling Rector. One is a climber, one is a rambler! NO CLUES. As we live in an old Rectory, the Rambling Rector seemed apposite. It has… Read More Rambling Rector Rose Rage
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
Yup. I have a connection to Brighton. Before our kids were born, Himself was the Physical Training Instructor at Roussillon Barracks, Chichester (The Royal Military Police Training Centre) where we’d both been trained and then lived at. He volunteered to do the famous London to Brighton bike ride and I drove to Brighton to meet… Read More Brighton/Blackadder/My Life
I’m NOT a fan of Rugby. It’s just men beating the shit outta each other over a silly shaped ball. BUT —- If I hear another youtuber say Without Further Ado I will barf. We are one of the 5 Nations. England. Ireland. Scotland. Wales……………………………..France. :o) :o) In my day, football was every bit as… Read More Without Further Ado : Rugby is Silly. IMHO
I loved this film. Time for a rewatch.
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
Oh well. Sometimes stuff happens and I get got. Bloody tactless Sagittarians and their brutal honesty. I’m triply cursed. A Sag. An Empath. A Highlander. Only the STRONG survive. :o)
I have a tapestry in the making (from 20 years ago) that depicts a gorgeous Burne-Jones Angel and the quote in the image above. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. But…no matter what kind things I said or did, I was heckled out of the wazoo. Then banned. So… Read More Stranger Danger vs Stranger Angels
I love this song. It speaks to me. Those Red Indians have so much in common with my own family. I’m a Greig/MacGregor. We were called Children of the Mist because when the English government proscribed my ancestors, LITERALLY set a price on our heads, encouraged others to kill us and stole our land- we… Read More Red Indians/GBH/Wild Nobility
Infamy, Infamy…they’ve all got it in for me. Sorry. Whenever Julius Caesar comes up, I just see Kenneth Williams being camp in Carry On Cleo :o) There was more of them than us (?) Said we’d never dance again (?)
I know it’s a full moon right now. I live in a house so secluded by trees that we don’t close the curtains so a full moon changes the night-time light. These January WOLF moons always bring me to one film. One song. This’ll be around the 5th time I’ve done this post but it… Read More Full WOLF Moon : I Can’t Help Myself :o)
Below is a comment that I received way back in 2019 when I dared to doubt the ongoing CNN news stories about protests in Hong Kong. A place that I had recently spent time in. My reply explained that I’d been there on business. We had a company office based in Hong Kong and I… Read More Them Vs Us : Life in the Middle East
This is a naval term and means raising the Standard Flag onboard. Pirates raised the Skull and Crossbones. The Royal Navy raised the Ensign. Narcissists raise Red Flags. My great uncle, my uncle, my Dad, my Mum, both my brothers and long ago relatives of ours were all Naval Men. That’s why I joined the… Read More Raising The Standard
So I post about the Demeter. A ship. A Captain. And then – Enter Neil, Stage Right. Leaders are born. One in a million is a True Leader. Love it :o)
Altered Images were a Glasgow band from the ’80’s and their song Happy Birthday was a favourite of mine. Day After Tomorrow is my late Mum’s birthday. Next month BFF & I will reach an iconic birthday….though hers is exactly 3 weeks before me :o) Yeah. She knows. Having been BFF’s since we were both… Read More AI = Altered Images
I quoted some of the poem below on yt yesterday and got a comment by someone who recognised the line. Yay! Cabbages also occur in Coryat’s Crudities. I recently cooked Colcannon – Irish mashed potatoes, cabbage and bacon. And to push the point even further – the bits of fabric left over in dressmaking are… Read More POETS DAY & Cabbages
I’m not a huge Bowie fan. But – a couple of others here, in my home are. We have original Bowie vinyl albums. Somewhere. Quite a few. Did you know ? So they say – Bowie made up Major Tom from the Kubrick film Space Oddity…Odyssey…m’eh. Dunno. Never watched. WHY is Bowie in my head?… Read More We Know Major Tom’s A Junkie
Still. Throughout time. The scales have been balanced in favour of the “PACK.” Lone wolves just do their own thing to survive without the need for whatever everyone else fights for. I’ll post this song until the 12th of Never.
I did this a couple of days before Mrs DR. Kat. So there ! 102K vs 57. Wow. The MorningStar of the Reformation Shoot – I’m flipping good at this oneupmanship thingy. But then I’ve had great teachers from the trooth community :o)
No wonder I’m all over the place. Full Moons are all about ENDINGS. What has happened has happened. Close that door and move forwards. Look forwards. Leave all that bs behind. Where it belongs. On the compost heap. It’ll decay and disappear and feed the future growth. We are everything that has ever happened to… Read More Sagi Super Full Moon – 14th of June 2022
There is too much evidence collected over the past 3 and a half years (and stored for future use) to make any of this mere coincidence or synchronicity. No matter where I go on yt – I’m followed by demons whose sole aim is to destroy every single connection I make. The one below happened… Read More Demonic Energy & The People of the Lie
Never forget where you’ve come here fromNever pretend that it’s all realSomeday soon this will all be someone else’s dreamThis will be someone else’s dream **** Because not one single person has had the balls to tell me why I’m so hated in utoobia, I’ll think mine own thoughts. Because I KNOW exactly where I… Read More Nvr 4g3t
We have some good weather. Woohooooo! Or not. Himself has a thing about men in flip flops and women with tattoos all over their legs. My gripe is CARAVANS. The A158 is being overloaded with the beggars every Thursday, Friday afternoon as millions of them head towards Skegness for a weekend of fun and frolics.… Read More Nice Idea…In Theory
Way back in late 2019/early 2020 I told two fabby famous content creators that there was a Schism coming up and that I was a huge part of that. WTF – 3 years ago? Anyhoo. The Schism is well and truly here and PUBLIC. Not just me being a snarky bitch all over yt. Sita/Woody/EwarAnon.… Read More The Schism : Alive & Kicking Butt. Woohoooooo!
So Julius Caesar is meant to have said. All Hail, Caesar. Bless him. He’s conquered another. I wish him well. He deserves all the love & luck he has….taken by the flood. That Gate was opened. Now comes everything Caesar ever wished for. Bon Voyage, mon brave :o)
The Player got played. AS YOU LIKE IT :o)
I’ve done this Biryani before and it took half a day. Even with the hijacking of several males to finish off grinding the spices!!! I’m planning to do it tomorrow so I’m prepping. The Hairy Biker’s Curry book is fabulous. But first… No Time For Wasters :o) P.S. I have a beautiful, huge, old pestle… Read More So Much To Do : So Little Time To Bother with Trivials
Hey. Some things just HAVE to be done. I’m just showing. SHE (IT) took and used all of ME and my work for her own self-glorification. I’m related to the man in the image above. Uncle Jim even went to his tomb in Tallin, Estonia. Here we have a video from yt with BOII in… Read More The Celtic Boii Tribe
I was born with high arched feet. Google that and you’ll be told that you have a medical PROBLEM. Not so, mes braves. The picture above is of the Bovver Boots I was gifted for Xmas. They hurt my feet but I love them so much that I’ll endure the pain until the boots obey… Read More High Arches/Torture/Doing Your Own Thang
Aha! Problem solved by my leetle grey cell :o) When eldest son hit 6ft 6ins tall and constantly complained about having backache every morning, his mother took pity on him. Having a huge SuperKing Sized Bed (6ft wide and 6ft 6 ins long) she gifted it to him and reclaimed the old normal, Victorian bedstead… Read More BIG Beds & A Genius Brainwave
I’m still pissed off about that phone call. Are you over 50? He didn’t even call me Mrs H, or Jackie. Just went into the schpeel. Harumph. I’m a sensitive flower, don’t’ya’know? Some of us ancient, decrepit, old and post mans-pause gals still have oooomph.
Rachel is so like me in so many ways. I’ve spent the whole of last week watching her complete madness on yt. She makes me feel soooooo NOT ALONE anymore :o) Yep. She buys into the WWW stupids going on. But I can forgive her everything when I watch. And she’s teaching me to be… Read More I Have A SECRET Love…Again!
I’ve done this so many times but I’m on another EGO-SELF-BOOST today. Who the eff needs outside validation by the masses? ME : A Brief History of the Gallowglas That’s how I know them. Most write Gallowglass but…whatever. We are all Different. I’M NOT :o) Sorry. That’s my immediate response to the phrase, We are All… Read More Let’s Return to the Gallowglas
We have a barber shop in our tiny market town that does THE WORKS. I said Arabic, son said…..He’s Iranian. Same difference, my lovely :o0 This is the son who spent a few years (on and off) in the Middle East and appreciates a PROPER BARBER. He came home today all glowing and happy and… Read More Arab or Iranian ?
Good Grief. I’d totally forgotten that I used to do this on the “vintage” clothes that came into my shop. Everything has a smell and a texture when burned. That was not the only place that I’ve got previous convictions for ROASTING copycats who steal my craft and hours of work, butcher the originals and… Read More CopyCat or Real Deal Roast
…These are the things we can do WITHOUT C’mon. I’m Talking To You. C’mon. **** I’ve seen too much BS. Roses grow in shit. Let’s see some more beauty in this world of lies and duplicity ? PUHLEASE!
The video is no longer available. When the perp is about to be hanged and sings this song. Anyway. Someone else seems to be skinny and thin. His mate earns 10 times more a week than he does. His like ratio is high. His comment ratio is VERY HIGH but…his views are now VERY LOW.… Read More Your Baby Has Gone Down The Plughole
She was not a woman who lived a “good” life. She had many desires that she followed without conscience. But on Judgement Day – she told the Absolute Truth. That is admirable. I’ve no idea where my brainbox is going today but I’ll follow :o) MODERATORS. They should be renamed Hostesses. Like Ruth Ellis they… Read More Ruth Ellis : Hostess With The Mostess & Dracula
When we had our company, I was force-fed Due Diligence. It went far beyond the normal business practices and into the personal when I wanted to sack 5 members of our staff. It involved secret email accounts between me and the lawyers. It went to saving every single email every single employee had sent over… Read More Due Diligence
Or – in my case – three girls in a boat (me, myself & I) To Say Nothing of the Cat (Maud) Let Your Boat of Life be Light. I should’ve known better. But I got what I deserved…Eurythmics song. Hey, peeps…You can’t be accusing me of not trying to take on the More Of… Read More Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
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