This Wednesday I will be going off to a Vipassana Retreat in Worchester, near Cape Town. I’ll be there for ten days, meditating. I have never done something like this before, so it is very unknown to me. I’m a little bit nervous because it is doing unfamiliar things with unfamiliar people in an unfamiliar…
Servant of the Lake and Rusty Lake Games
I have always been a big fan of the pc games that come from the Rusty Lake developers, and I have played all of them. I highly recommend them them for the players who enjoy mysterious games that have puzzles in them, as well as very creepy characters and very creepy stories. One of the…
Mike Anderson’s Life of the Dayreamer
Finally, the release of a long awaited trailer! Mike Anderson’s ‘Life of the Dayreamer’, a theatre musical album, is coming out on 5 October 2023! If you’re into dramatic theatre with a taste for gothic music, then you’ll want to go visit the links. It’s all still a little bit of a secret, so you’ll…
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Something you need to know about me is that I am autistic and one of my key features is that I struggle very much with tasks. Very much so. This is known as Pathological Demand Avoidance, which means that I find everyday tasks difficult to do and must avoid them at all cost. It’s very…
March 7
In La Haye, France Jean Pierre Blanchard was the first man to cross the English Channel by air- in a balloon. Today in 1809, he jumps out of his balloon to test a parachute. He’s made many successful jumps, except for today. Great Britain’s Royal Horticulture Society is founded by John Wedgwood, Josiah’s son, 1804….
March 6
The famous English poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning is born today in 1806. “Young men, ay and maids, Too often so their wild oats in tame verse.” E.B.B Aurora Leigh (excerpts) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning from Book 1: “And with two grey-steel naked-bladed eyesSearched through my face, — ay, stabbed it through and through,Through brows and cheeks…
March 5
“For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land.” Song of Solomon 2:11-12 5 March 1934, Texas, USA. Mother-in-law Day… at least that was the idea….
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