j She Purred Like a Tiger Would you like to sin With Elinor Glyn On a tiger skin? Or would you prefer To err With her On some other fur? Anonymous The writer Elinor Glyn – mentioned in the poem by Anonymous – has been published again this year by Histria … [Read more…]
Halloween While nobody was paying attention, Halloween surreptitiously crept over most of October and Christmas decided to manifest early. But Halloween wasn’t always orange pumpkins, plastic skeletons and job lots of candy. At this time of year Christmas trimmings and Halloween decorations are fighting for shelf space in mega stores. Life-size effigies of witches … [Read more…]
Glimpses of HRH Princess Margaret ‘I wouldn’t let that family get near me with a sharp stick – let alone a sword’. Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, commenting on the 2003 ceremony to knight Sir Mick Jagger. He was anointed by the future King Charles. The ceremony involved Jagger being tapped on the shoulder … [Read more…]
The Sphinx And at yet another dinner she produced a revolver and placed it beside her. A startled guest enquired: ‘Duchess, what are you going to do with that?’ To which she replied: ‘Oh I don’t know, I might just shoot Marlborough!’ (excerpt from biography The Sphinx … [Read more…]
Wild and Wicked Famous women are frequently sensationalized to provide historical fodder for films, plays, operas and books. Facts are wilfully ignored because wickedness, orgies, incest, violence, psychological abuse and criminal activity will always find an audience. Cleopatra was frequently represented as an objectified woman. Everyone from Cicero to Shakespeare used her to … [Read more…]