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Bede, Gregory of Tours. Medieval Movies & links to history podcasts. Antiques friendly.
BTW avoiding MAGAs & their UK pals keeps my blood pressure down.
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Alternate book title: Stuffings for nightmares.
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My French forefather whose business acumen was very good was the first importer of Dutch cattle in France. During the Napoleonic wars. So horse, wagon, foot. And return was same along a herd of cows, calves and some bulls. Imagine how long it took for great great great great gd papa to return home!
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My US grandfather was a farmer. I know for a fact he always wanted potatoes at breakfast. Hot. Roasted, fried up. Cattle hands liked their beans. Soup implies bowls, transport, copper buckets. Our generation lives in a different world than our grandparents not to mention our great grand parents. ./.
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one thing to remember is the farmer diet. We are forgetting in our days of gas run tractors etc farming is less physical. but in 1900, America farming was not different from European wheat raising. Same with day light. Same need for able bodies. And we have to add seasons. Soup is winter fare../.
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When my French Nan was sharing her pre WW1 childhood memories, she used to say me farm labourers working for my great grandpa would have soup at breakfast, bread, pate, saucisson (sausage) + 'eau d'abondance'. Wine watered down. Along cheese. So yes, soup at breakfast when you have a physical job.
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For so few happy endings, he survived the war. A true righteous among nations. In my book.
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In 1941, he was transferred to Sachsenhausen. He survived the war.
He worked as a driver at Polish Radio.
Zygmunt Porębski passed in 1983.
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As they say, there is no such thing called Climate change.
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From your sadistic friend:
Just has a Ferrero Rocher ice cream.
Long sigh of pleasure.
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Me knowing this podcast is out.
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It could be displayed today on a haute couture runway.
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Cthulhu has always been partial to ⬇️
@locktowndog.bsky.social @highlandheathen.bsky.social
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Brilliant. How long must it have taken as generally Pallas Cats are good at looking grumpy.
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As I was googling about Queen Anna of France, wife to Henry I and mother to Philippe I (she was from the House of Kyiv) I learned (quite bewildered by the reading) it was her and her Rus entourage who taught the French court how to wash, bath etc. Nonsense is all over the place.
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Thank you so much for reading and hopefully being given some answers.
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Royals of Barbarian ancestry albeit Christian education & having no theological issue with Christianity kept some Pagan tradition (like we have kept some Saturnalia/Halloween traditions) without realising it because it was serving a purpose which they approved of. Queens bearing boys? ./.
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We know the 2 ladies were Christian. Just like we know Chlothar the Elder was Christian born to the very devoted Christian Chlothildis, queen of the Franks. Yet Chlothar who was all his life Christian regardless of his cruel actions named his son Battle Raven aka Gunthram. Could it be ./.
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the very Christian rouelle de Limons with Freyr boars? or the Cologne Merovingian princess grave goods not to mention Queen Aregund burial goods. See photos I googled../.
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Did these inscription rock crystal spheres disappear about the same time early medieval rock crystal spheres without inscription appeared in the Barbarian newly appeared kingdoms? As if these Christian spheres covered an identical purpose but the Barbarian spheres were pagan or part pagan like ./.
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Scrolling through the latest Harry Potter movie cast.
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... of the solitary cyclist variety? @scotchmist31.bsky.social
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Ah... this obsolete concept of taking responsibility. @locktowndog.bsky.social @scotchmist31.bsky.social @highlandheathen.bsky.social
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In the Marquises. Brel wrote his last album rightly named The Marquises as he was dying from cancer. It is a moving poem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo7V... I remember when he released the French version of the Man of the Mancha. Showing true grace under pressure.
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In the Marquises.
Laughter is in the heart, words in the eyes
Heart is on journey, Future is random.
Coconut trees walk by writing love songs
Good sisters around choose To ignore
Canoes go Canoes come
My memory become
What old people do with theirs
What do you want me to say
Moaning is wrong here
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In the Marquises.
From the evening fires rise
With spikes of silence
Which widen
The moon advances
Aa the sea is torn
apart Infinitely broken By rocks which bear
Panicking names
And then further away dogs
Songs of repentance
A few pas de deux
A few dance steps
Night subdues
As trade winds break
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They talk about death As you talk about fruit
They look at the sea As you look down a well
Women are lascivious under the dreaded
sun As there is no winter, there is not summer
Rain goes sideways beating from bead to bead
Old white horses hum Gauguin name
By lack of breeze Time stands still ./.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DaP... Europeans often get confused about Maori nations. They were excellent sailors. This Marquesian Haka is (irony!) French as Marquesas Islands are French. Late Belgian singer Jacques Brel wrote a beautiful poem/song about them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8lK... ./.
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Same here. Mongoose has the beady eyes of Morse when he has diagnosed who has committed the crime.
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Escomb
Barton upon Humber
Jarrow
Saint Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale.
Escomb had like Jarrow broken stained window glass.
My impression being a lot more window glass was in use in early medieval era than we believe it to have been.
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The Searchers - Sweets For My Sweet (1966) youtu.be/zQDi1KRJJeY?...
Sweets for my sweet, sugar for my honey
Your first sweet trial thrilled me so
Sweets for my sweet, sugar for my honey
I'll never ever let you forget it...