To the Miscodeed Sweet pink of northern wood and glen, E’er first to greet the eyes of men In...
The Bonfire Plot – Part 4
"Hanged, Drawn and Quartered..." Only eight of the original Plot survived. On a cold Monday,...
The Bonfire Plot: Part 1
"We must blow up the King and his Parliament..." In 1604 four men, Robert Catesby, Thomas Winter,...
The Bonfire Plot – Who Is Guy Fawkes?
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Memory
Memory is a glorious and admirable gift of nature by which we recall past things, we embrace present things, and we contemplate future things…
Cannon Fodder. Louis Ferdinand Celine.
Cannon-Fodder is an unfinished novel by the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline. The largely...
Bastille Day. 1789. Today.
Bastille stormed by Paris mob. On this day n 1789, a mob advanced on the Bastille, the crowd captured the prison, an act that symbolized the end of the regime of Louis XVI
Things that you just don’t see much anymore…
Christopher Dresser letter rack 1881
Green New Deal ideologies, fantasies and realities
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Promoting Illusions
The social and political circumstances of the time are certainly of considerable significance, but their importance for the weal or woe of the individual has been boundlessly overestimated in so far as they are taken for the sole...
Chapter 34 Vital and Danny Thebeau
CHAPTER 34 Summer of 1975 My friend, Jack Moore was keeping a few horses; he told me I should have one. I thought about it. I had a brother-in-law that had a horse he wanted to sell. I asked him how much he wanted for it, he told me he wanted $90.00. It was a nice...