Tag: History
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Tuesday’s Words
Tuesday. The day after Monday, and before Wednesday, and always in that order in every week, without exception; even on February 29th (although this time around February 29th is a Monday, it is still followed by a Tuesday… spooky). Shrove Tuesday falls on a Tuesday. Here in the UK, Shrove Tuesday is also known as…
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Catching Casanova
Giacomo Casanova (1725 – 1798). Ish. Picture the scene. It’s the mid-eighteenth century. We’re in Italy; Venice, actually. The Carnival is coming to its close. Noble folk (and lesser-noble for that matter!) are all partying like it’s 1999. All are dressed in elaborate clothing, wearing stunning full masks, some with head-dresses made out of the…
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Valentine’s Day set to move
Talks are taking place with the board of the International Allocation and Reallocation of Important and Strategic Dates Consortium (IRIS, previously known as ROSE: the Reallocation Of Some Events group, and before that HYACINTH: Ha! Yet Another Card Initiative Now Thought Historic) for the date of St Valentine’s Day to be moved. St Valentine of…
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Aphorodíta of Phoenicia
Aphorodíta, Cast in marble Watches through the years Yearning, Waiting, For Phoenicia, Her land to reappear One Phoenician, Her Phoenician, Adonis, She waits for too But cast in marble She waits forever For that’s All she can do. Behind the marble The story’s different, They live on Forever more Even in the Underworld, even if…
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Left Hanging
I’m feeling a little like Mae West when she was left hanging off the Empire State Building. Well, she wasn’t actually hanging off of the building, he was. The big gorilla monster thingy that had hold of her. Was it Mae West? Fay Wray. I’m feeling like Fay Wray when she was left hanging off…
The Mansionic Perspective 
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