Friday, April 4, 2025

4th April 2025

 


I have been listening Katty Kay and Scaramucci, you can find them here.  I find their partnership on their podcasts as an intelligent discussion on the woes of America.  It is like living in a parallel world, and it was summoned up by one comment in the podcast - I wouldn't be surprised at this point if Trump declares himself a god and marries a horse.  As of course the Irish high Kings in Dark Age Ireland were supposed to do at Tara I believe (and I think they mated!)

The ridiculous and surreal has pranced onto the world stage.  Has anyone read  H. G. Wells- War of the World.  There are two groups of people the Eloi and the Morlocks.  The Eloi are pretty small blonde haired people living on the surface of the Earth, the Morlocks on the other hand are dark creatures living in the dark subterranean caves below.  Sadly the Morlocks keep the Eloi for food, and they tend to their needs and the Eloi who are not very bright  live uncomplicated lives, not understanding what is happening..........

The other thing I caught last night was the Wandering Turnip in Hawarth of all places, marvelling about the small shops open up the hill to The Rectory, home of the three Bronte girls.  He also went up on the moors, to find the supposed farmhouse where Cathy lived in "Wuthering Heights".  Bit daft, and it was a rather ugly old ruined building but interesting all the same.  Sometimes I see England as a whole theme land of past history.



Thursday, April 3, 2025

3rd April 2025


Heptonstall Weaver's cottage

I mentioned yesterday to A/F that they were doing another film up on the moors, this time 'Wuthering Heights', the lead is an Australian actress called Margot Robbie.  She seems less of a Cathy then say Kate Bush's wild Cathy but on the coming film photos her blonde hair has changed to brunette. 

But it brought back to mind the fact that the wild, bleak nature of these grey towns rounds here and the moors 'up top' are attracting a lot of filming.  'Happy Valley' was a popular television drama, now finished.
The grave of David and Grace Hartley (King) taken from Geograph - Nigel Lloyd

But the one that never quite got the fame it deserved was the drama called Gallows Pole about the clipping of coins in the 18th century.  And the famous 'King Hartley' who lived up on a farm on the moors.  There is a very good video from Caldervale Council, recounting the story of 'The Turvin Golden Daughters' I will put it below.  Which explains the history of this  dramatic time in English history.  It sends the mind whirling why on earth did all these people, chisel tiny pieces of gold off the coins that changed hands.

And a smiling face from Glampuss as I like to call her.  Just off to take her train back to London, moaning about gloves as usual.  Will I ever be forgiven for not knitting that devilishly hard black mohair?




 North Stoke: 22/02/2022 Palindrome Day

North Stoke: 30th January 2023

North Stoke: Clipped and counterfeited

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

1st April 2024

Yes, I know a big red and white hand has appeared in the right column.  It is not my battle you will say, neither is the Ukraine flag underneath.  But if you click (probably double click) you will get the songs that strike me as being part of the news to date.  I should also have a Gaza song, but like Ukraine that is too painful to contemplate.  So I will let them rest at the side for the time being.
  
I believe the visual imaging of how the world is working at the moment, spreads the word profitably.  Trump and his sidekicks have to go, we have to shout out - The king has no clothes on - "The Emperor's new clothes "if you are wondering, but they don't fit how the people of this world want to live!  And there I will finish and go on to the things that interest me. Two thing, both happening down in Cornwall,
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The first is  a modern day labyrinth created on Bodmin Moor near to Collisford Lake, and there is I believe somewhere else in Cornwall,  a similar carving of a labyrinth carved on a rock.  Not a maze, but did I not read somewhere that it is an old pagan prehistoric symbol of a woman's uterus - but I don't believe that.  Man made marks on the surface of The Earth, the photos of the Bodmin Moor labyrinth can be found down below in the link - a very messy adverts link though.


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I am so pleased that it has been identified as prehistoric an earlier visit in 2013 writes of us walking there.  More visits to this rather wonderful site.  The earlier version of this site that it was probably medieval and not prehistoric,  it was the 'squareness' that fooled the archaeologists into thinking it was a pound for animals.