Tag: History
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Britannia’s Links to 1642
The information that you just happen to stumble upon when looking for other things is really quite remarkable. Or, could that be coincidental? Whatever it is, and why it happens I don’t know, I am just pleased that it does! This morning for instance, I found myself looking for the history of Britannia, the icon…
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Can coincidences occur over time?
I experience literally thousands of coincidences. Far more, actually, for them to be coincidences in fact. Some people don’t believe in coincidence as such and say that these random events are just things that were meant to happen at that time. And even though this makes sense (they are just two (or more) separate –…
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Just thinking…
I’m having a think. Well, I’m having more than one to be honest. I’m always thinking about something or other. I’m still thinking about those lines that I saw last night which travelled by the Moon. The black and white perfectly straight lines that went on forever. Well, to the horizon (and presumably beyond). It…
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The glamorous life of a call girl
I started work just before my eighteenth birthday. Well, I started working in a ‘proper’ job just before my eighteenth birthday – I had worked on a Youth Training Scheme before then which should have been for art, design and printing, but mostly entailed cleaning out the gent’s loos. Oh, I did do some art,…
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New Year’s Day
Many, many years ago today, I appeared on this world in this current form. The real me, Tom, the secret identity of Aquatom1968. Over the time, I have been witness to some rather unusual things. A lot of unusual things. The Seventies, for one thing. I seem to remember power cuts, national strikes, and a…
The Mansionic Perspective 