Keep your head down, and your chin up…

Posted on July 14, 2016 by pouringmyartout

… wait, does that even make sense???

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Keep calm, and carry a big stick…

Posted on July 14, 2016 by pouringmyartout

… that’s what the Queen of England used to say… to Teddy Roosevelt…

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Find the pulsing rhythm of your soul…

Posted on July 14, 2016 by pouringmyartout

… and freekin’ dance to it!!!

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Don’t just let your inner child out to play once in a while…

Posted on July 14, 2016 by pouringmyartout

… let it be in charge now and then…

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Yes, normal people get most of the real work done…

Posted on July 14, 2016 by pouringmyartout

… but crazy, weird people have created most of the best inventions and art…

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Your heart is a drum beat…

Posted on July 14, 2016 by pouringmyartout

… find the song that goes with it…

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London… the novel… a book review…

Posted on July 14, 2016 by pouringmyartout

I have never just randomly done a book review before… but this book is freaking awesome! It was written by Edward Rutherfurd, copyrighted in 1997. It follows the lines of ten or so fictitious families, all the way from when London was a small Celtic fishing village, through the Roman conquest of Julius Caesar, past the Norman conquest and the building of the White tower, and then down through the ages to beyond WW2.

It is so well written, the characters are delightful, and it all takes place against the backdrop of two thousand years of real history. The author was Cambridge educated, and it shows.

You not only get a real sense of the history of London, the politics, the people, the lives of both rich and poor alike, but you even get the backstory on many of the words used today in England that most people in the world have at least heard, but know nothing of their origins.

I cannot recommend this book highly enough!!!

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Uh, we are playing a game now where we make up funny fake names for small English towns, preferably involving cheese of some sort… please join us…

Posted on July 13, 2016 by pouringmyartout

This came about because of my silly little post where I dreamed of retiring someday to an English village called: Cheddarcheeseham… (not a real place)… and might be an offshoot of a post I did long ago, just after returning from England, where I made a long list of funny English town and village names, of which… (supposedly)… half were real and half were made up, and asked you to guess which was which… (but, when I looked at a map of the United Kingdom, there were so many awesomely funny… and quaint and adorable;ely-hard-to-pronounce names, that I just used all real names of real places… and I mean no disrespect, because I love England, and have seen the queen!)…

Here is one of my comments from the recent post, cut and pasted, entirely out of context,  just to get you started…

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No… it’s true… you go by Clamdip, turn left at Fromageington, continue on into West Littlebigfordshire, past the old holy city of Swisstonmarket, and if you reach Fonduewichester or Velveetaston, you went too far… way too far…

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If you have to have one in the back seat of your car…

Posted on July 13, 2016 by pouringmyartout

… it is far better to have theoretical dragon than the heretical dragon…

Just sayin’…

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Sorry about all the words…

Posted on July 12, 2016 by pouringmyartout

I am still on my little adventure… so I am taking a lot of pictures to share with you, but I can’t get them on the blog right now. I am doing a lot of typing. Believe me, I would rather be breaking these posts up with photos of baby gorillas and birds and flowers and, of course, me… and I don’t even have Photoshop right now, so I can’t do funny pictures to make fun of Trump or whatever…

I realize that, when I am just left in front of a keyboard, the crack squirrels in my head tend to go a little stir crazy, so I hope you will bear with us.

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