The Goat Race – Rave

 

 

 

 

 

This Summer, Find Morse Family Programs Online

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solo Board Games

 

 

 

 

 

 

Something to Try next time you’re in or if you’re considering dropping by for the first time once they unlock your lock down

 

Ft. Lauderdale 

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If you’ve ever been to Ft. Lauderdale you know that it is a very opulent and visually attractive city best known for it’s hosting of Spring Break to thousands of college students for many years now as well as for its series of canals and urban gondolas.

 

 

Here you can take the Water taxi all around the canals from one location to another or you can just tour the beautiful waterways 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EME in Conversation: A People’s History of Classics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 Travel Documentaries That Will Satisfy Your Wanderlust

 

 

 

 

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Elevate Your Home With Essential Oils From Around the World

 

 

 

 

 

 

Key West is a great place to visit though I’ve heard its tamed a bunch since I was last there—-and has become opulent and less crazy and while I hope not,

there’s so much in Key West to keep coming back for.

 

No matter what you find there to enhance yur experience–take time when you arrive to breathe in the salt tinged air and just relax and enjoy—let the big city you left, your job,  your problems float away in the sea breeze—change into your super casual clothes and just set in the sun—at first you don’t need explore– just find a quiet place by the sea and lose all the worries and care  and let yourself be on Conch Time.  

 

As you walk about—even in the down town watch for the broad-winged Hawk that often glides  by….and of course there’s those escapees–caged parrots and other such birds that have remade their world—from cages to tree tops—from controlled to free spirit—let your spirit sour with them—be free from the cages you’ve imposed on yourself.

 

 

Leave Duval street and wander down the less traveled streets and hidden lanes where the pink, purple,. yelow and many other colors you’re not sure you know the name of are present in the form of blooms.  Many of the houses here have wonderful yard lush with green and spotted with flowers of a multitue of hues.  And don’t forget the trees–the Orange-Red blossoms of the Royal Poinciana and the violet-blue of the Jacaranda  blossoms that hang like grapes from the limbs.

 

 

At night there are the scent of the Jasmine.  And always there are all manner of palms, avocada trees, Bougainvillea and even a strangler fig or two.

 

 

So if you think Key West is only Duval Street you haven’t been there with me, wandering down the lanes of beauty and peace.   When you go try getting off that main drag and get away from IT all for at least a short time to relieve all that stress—then you can go to Duval to see if its still crazy or not.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Victorian extravagance a virtual tour

 

 

 

 

 

Then there’s Boswell Court on the Royal Mile 

Edinburgh

 

Boswell Court itself teems with historcal associations.  Named after the uncle of the biographer James Boswell, who visited here with his subect Dr. Samuel Johnson prior to departure on their famous and infamous, Tour of the Herbrides, the building has also served as committee rooms for the Church of Scotand.  By a pleasing  and all too Scottish interplay of opposites, here could also be found the tryst for Edinburgh’s Hellfire Club, who convened to practise the convivial art of devil-worship in the hopes of conjuring up their patron to deliever an after-dinner speech.

Edinburgh’s Historic Mile

Duncan Priddle

 

 

and you can purchase 

 

 

16 Scariest Haunted House Movies to Freak You Out in Your Own Home

 

 

 

 

This is an old ad but I loved the picture so thught I’d share it with you.

 

15 Adult Inflatable Pools to Un-Cancel Summer

 

 

 

 

 

199 steps  lead up to the Abbey is Church Street

 

Unless you’re a Goth or a rabid fan of Dracula (and if you don’t read my blog regularly) this town on the north east of England—across the York Moors –probably isn’t too familiar to you

 

 

 

Whitby
Whitby and River Esk
Arms of Whitby Town Council featuring three green serpents (prior to 1935 depicted as ammonites).
Whitby Location within North Yorkshire
Population	13,213 (2011 census)[1]
OS grid reference	NZ893109
Civil parish	Whitby
District	Scarborough
Shire county	North Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WHITBY
Postcode district	YO21, YO22
Dialling code	01947
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Scarborough and Whitby
List of places UK England Yorkshire 54.4858°N 0.6206°W

 

 

I had planned to stay a day or two in Whitby but i ended up settling for a day tour out of York.  But enjoyed it allot.   There are several tours  I took this one.

 

 

Whitby  had been a fishing village for over 100 year and was at one time a whaling port.   

infact Captain Wm Scoreby a whaling captian from this port invented a Crows net for sailing ships.  There’s a monument to him that looks like a wooden barrel strapped to a mast according to accounts I read—I missed that one wandering about the town.

Hey I found it—interesting

check it out:

Monument to Scoresby in Whitby

 

Probably Whitby’s biggest claim to fame (unless you count Stoker and Dracula) is that the Synod held at Whitby Abbey--the ruined church (which is visible for miles inland and out to sea)  on its site on top of East Cliff above the river that Whitby brackets on both sides—was held here in 663.  It was at this meeting that the Church of England finally accepted the authority of the Church of Roman Catholic Church and with the rest of the Christian world at the time —-where England woud remain part of until the 16th c and a King named Henry but that’s another story.

 

 

Whitby is also the site where Captain Cook learned seamanship on his way to becoming a captain—it is said the the town has hardly changed since that time.

 

 

Ah yes and we can’t forget Dracula.  Bram Stoker is said (and if you look about and have any knowledge of the book you have no doubt of the fact) to have used the town for his Dracula Book

 

 

 

 

Kew from above

 

 

 

 

 

“While kings were also vulnerable to political upheavel—-just ask Louis XVI, 

Marie Antoinette’s headless husband–for the most part men pulled the strings at court.  Therefore any woman blocking the way to power was a threat to be eliminated.  Common ways to bump off an inconvenient consort included beheading , burning, drowning, poisoning, stabbing, strangling, starving and forcing suicides.”

Doomed Queens

Kris Waldberr

 

 

 

Open Webinar Ancient Voyage A Tour of Turkey and the Mystical Gobekli Tepe

 

 

 

 

 

 

From AARP Bulletin June 2020

very intereating Special Report on

The New Normal

 

 

 

 

Indoor Grilling

 

 

 

 

Bride/St. Brigid (or Brigit)

On the trip we visited Ireland—driving ourselves about we visit St. Bridgid church in Kildare

 

on the grounds of the cathedral are also the ruins of a fire temple….

 

 

St Brigid’s Fire Temple

In Irish Mythology, Brigid the pagan goddess is the daughter of Dagda and a member of the Tuatha dé Danann. Brigid has always been associated with fire, poetry, unity, childbirth and healing. It is said she kept an eternal flame burning in her temple at Kildare. In the 5th century Christianity spread to Ireland and St Brigid, who was born in Faughart, founded a monastery in 470 AD on the same site as the fire temple. She too kept the flame burning and over time both the Goddess and the Saint have become synchronized. What we see today are the foundations of a possible temple. The flame was finally extinguished around the time of the reformation in the 16th century. In 1993 the flame was relit by the Brigidine sisters. Since then, the Brigidine Sisters in Kildare have tended the flame in their Centre, Solas Bhride.

Other historical source say that St Brigit and Bride the daughter of the Dagda (Celtic gods “good god”)  who is said to be one in the same.  Some say that the godess was made a saint when the early church found it hard to do away with her cult and so they changed her from Bride to Brigit and attributed several miracles to her, especially dealing with her fire aspects and her fire was tended in her temple, a newer such temple that still stand on the same ground that now holds a church–

There are many sacred wells belonging to Brigid the goddess of healing or the saint, depending on what you believe, including one at Kildare not far from the fire temple’s site

Oh by the way her holday is Imbolg–in February.  Imbolg means basically “butter bag” and was celebrated when the ewes began to lactate and notes the saint (or solar goddess) fertility aspects.

We visited another well dedicated to St. Bridgit on a hill side—it was pointed out to us to visit by the ladies who ran a cafe in a town we stopped in for lunch.  It hadn’t been on our itenary but they gave us directions and it thus was an added  site we visited.

 

Help for the Self Employed

 

 

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The first monks were Christians who removed themselves from society to the Egyptian desert to endure privations and hardships as hermits—the word ‘monk’ is derived from the Greek ‘monos’ meaning ‘solitary’ or ‘alone.’  Primitive monasteries were established when hermits and their disciples formed into small groups, gradually learning to share the benefits of communal living and worship.  St. Basil and St. Benedict were two early influence on the collective approach to religion, encouraging people to accept that pursuing a solitary course of self-denial and hardship was entirely selfish.

Abbeys & Monasteries

Derry Brabbs

 

 

 

Explore Gorsty House

 

 

 

0h and the movie quote is from

 

The Long Riders
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Walter Hill
Produced by	Tim Zinnemann Stacy Keach James Keach
Written by	Bill Bryden Steven Phillip Smith Stacy Keach James Keach
Starring	David Carradine Keith Carradine Robert Carradine James Keach Stacy Keach Dennis Quaid Randy Quaid Christopher Guest Nicholas Guest
Music by	Ry Cooder
Cinematography	Ric Waite
Edited by	Freeman A. Davies David Holden
Production company	Huka Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	May 16, 1980
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$8 million[1]
Box office	$15,795,189[2] 241,290 admissions (France)[3]

 

 

 

The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.

 

 

This was a fav of mine for a long time—a violent account of a violent era in the aftermath of the civil war—4 sets of brothers played by 4 sets of brother made for an interesting take on these famous outlaws and include a VERY young Dennis Quade. and the late David Carradine.  The quote noted at beginning is when two of the outlaw start to fight over a saloon girl who advises them that they’ve both had her before and then goes on to say the quote……if you like these these hard bitten westerns go ahead and

 

 

Watch it on line.

 

 

Lose yourself and find Britain in these classic novels

 

The 3 pictures (Main, first and this) are just from my wanderings

 

 

Though I can not tell you exactly were and what they were pictures of