Autumn is definitely here. Yesterday the Aga responded to efforts too light it and Lillie managed to find the right combination and it stayed lit. It makes a great difference, that slight feeling of damp has gone'
Also the large cast aluminum casserole pot arrived yesterday. It was expensive (Lakeland) but will sit nicely on the hot plates of the Aga. As I do a lot of the cooking, the presence of the Aga is a great relief. I suddenly remembered the other day a sauce Paul used to cook with. 'Blue Dragon' Black Bean Sauce. Finely sliced cabbage, spring onions, noodles and chicken if I remember right. Last night I cooked roasted vegetables and we had a quiche with them.
Great excitement about Dispatches last night which I didn't watch, all about Russell Brand and his past history. Sexual misconduct blows through the air with great gusts of exposé material. How many men are looking back at their past and worrying? Luckily it seems that it is those that have made some sort of name for themselves in the media.
I have no love for Russell Brand, apparently he is one of those right wing conspiracy theorist as well but as I do not look at his videos cannot verify that.
It is funny though, that those faces you experience on television can suddenly erupt into another type of person as well. Here I am thinking of Neil Oliver, now to be seen with his flowing locks exposing/being part of, other conspiracy theories. Remember when he just presented history, standing dramatically on a hill with the wind blowing through his hair?
But then life has many possibilities, they have dragged up those 'aliens' again to have a 'proper' look at them, they look so scary I am not even going to put a picture of them up, were they not found by the Nazca Lines in Peru? False of course.
Perhaps the 'Horn of Ulf' is a better picture, when the Viking Lord Ulf rode from the district round my own village to York to hand this drinking horn along with his lands to the Bishop of York. He just got fed up with his sons arguing over their inheritance.
Is it not beautiful though, sadly made of an elephant's tusk and made in Italy. Carved in the Islamic style.
Also, why not this gold jewellery found in 2008 in West Yorks. As 'Treasure' it belongs to the state, so we can only hope The British Museum does not lose this small hoard! It dates from about the 7th century to the 11th century
And lastly, but so weird, the four tall gold conical European hats of the Bronze Age. What wizards wore them and how did they keep them on their heads is my question.
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According to what is written about them, they could well be part of a Sun culture, they are (supposedly) representative of the Urnfield Culture and were buried in the ground.
A curious man that Neil Oliver. I first saw him on TV where he comes across as a rather serious and earnest man. Then I read his books and he's much more relaxed and quite entertaining. On YouTube he seems slightly unhinged and very sure of himself, in the way that people are when not completely convinced of their own arguments. I'd love to hear him on those conical gold hats.
ReplyDeleteNeil Oliver seemed such an earnest person as he talked of history, now he seems slightly mad on his videos. But I think you have got it right "not completely convinced of their own arguments". Considering the world changes with remarkable speed, anything said today, changes by tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteThe gold hats have a lovely discussion on the actual patterning on the hats and whether they represent the moon phases but it needs a lot of reading up! 19 is the magic number.
I would not want to wear those hats in an electrical storm. Thanks for the reminder of the Lansdown disc. I have never warmed to Russel Brand. There is something of Charles Manson in the eyes, but maybe I have been prejudiced by recent news...
ReplyDeleteMad eyes yes as far as Brand goes. He is mad at the moment though and blames it on a few promiscuous years!
ReplyDeleteI had forgotten the Lansdown Sun Disc, it came from Germany and has been talked about as the bottom of a drinking cup, but it is has the same sort of marking as the gold hats.
That horn is so beautiful but would have looked even more beautiful on an elephant.
ReplyDeleteWell it is long dead now Pat, perhaps when it was retrieved the elephant was already dead of old age. Always look on the bright side song comes to mind.
DeleteWell, that's disappointing about Russell Brand. I always thought he was more vulgar than he needed to be, but he was also very intelligent. I wonder where that intelligence went? I think he basically sells out to whoever he can.
ReplyDeleteBad behaviour which had not been picked over the last years has come back to haunt him. Things said in jest are now becoming criminal. The fact that the charge of rape has been brought against him means his career is probably finished. It took four years to assemble the programme 'Dispatches', litigation will probably be useless.
ReplyDeleteThe Andrew Sach 'prank calls' of 2008 have also been pulled up.