20th March 2019 - CD Video - The Viinshar

Thought for the day :"My wife told me to reset the circuit breaker, I refused."

In other news - Brexit is still rumbling on...

I do not know if this will stay for ever - but I hope it does
If not then at least it should be a link to the video caption generator should I ever need to parody the German Bunker...

May versus Bercow

May versus Bercow

or even the Kebab theory ....

And so we move onto the next stage of CD production. Having all the permissions, and Marleos and Chris having agreed with the video I can now publish the Viinshar as a 2019 Remix Video...

Call of the Viinshar

Cheers!

19th March 2019 - Sinistaire is Found

Thought for the day:"I memorised 6 pages of the dictionary – I learned Next to Nothing"

Time for a change of scenery - Profiles updated - one for St Patrick's day but the remainder for Week 11 ....

Vollsanger - A Song - Photo: Taurus Luvavi

St Patrick's Day - Crimson Moon 

Seemed Legit..

In other news - finally tracked down my missing Love Chronicle Lady - Sinistaire..  I put out a request on the Mythodea site as I was getting to the stage where if I aid out good money for the CD printing and there was an objection to using the photo then I would have wasted a lot of money ...

And so I now know that Sinistair is in fact Ina  Beller and she is of course married...

However, I find that my taste is as good as I think it is ... and as a Yoga and fitness person she is also a cosplay model by the looks of it - so a number of additional photographs are available...

No wonder Vollsanger fell in love....

and here are some more..

And she is quite happy to have her photo on the Album so that is a bonus and we are now ready to go ahead with the CD...

Live Adventure - the company that runs Mythodea also are happy for me to use the logo and designs and have sent me the masters...

Main Logo

Crystal

outline

the Ratio

And so the video upgrade of the 2019 Viinshar is now ready to go...


Cheers !

18th March 2019 - Is Viinshar a Welsh town name?

Thought for the day:"Boobytrap backwards is partyboob – just saying"

Yesterday was an Irish day with St Patrick - who was of course a Welshman as far as we can tell. So this little map popped up with the correct pronunciation (not) of the Welsh towns

I think I may change Clandudknow to Clan-don't-know - seems like a plan..

This nice old picture of the Thomas Arms also popped up - we used to live just opposite and when Susie and I took the girls Choir Practise on a Friday night - there just seemed to be a pub in the  way on the way home ... I remember the bar staff thinking that we must be having an affair as we talked to each other for an hour without stopping each week !

In other news, gained permission from Chris Fano to use the image of her NPC character Anaesha Fey - the leader of the Viinshar for the CD, and we are moving into design phase. Meanwhile - I am putting together the remix video for the Viinshar ...  track three ..

And so a day in the video mix, RAM this evening, and head still in the book for KTP on Wednesday...

Cheers !

17th March 2019 - Happy St Patrick's Day

Thought for the day:"If you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover, do you get a rash of good luck?"

I didn't know that!!

For most of the 20th century, Saint Patrick’s Day was considered a strictly religious holiday in Ireland, which meant that the nation’s pubs were closed for business on March 17. (The one exception went to beer vendors at the big national dog show, which was always held on Saint Patrick’s Day.) In 1970, the day was converted to a national holiday, and the stout resumed flowing.

Why? Ireland is heavily Catholic, and St. Patrick's Day falls during Lent, which means that although celebratory feasts and drinks were allowed, an all-night party seemed a little too sinful. Fearing excessive drinking, Ireland introduced a law that forced all pubs to close on March 17. Luckily for beermakers, the law was repealed in 1961.

In Irish lore, Saint Patrick gets credit for driving all the snakes out of Ireland. Modern scientists suggest that the job might not have been too hard – according to the fossil record, Ireland has never been home to any snakes. Through the Ice Age, Ireland was too cold to host any reptiles, and the surrounding seas have staved off serpentine invaders ever since. Modern scholars think the “snakes” Saint Patrick drove away were likely metaphorical.

According to Irish legend, Saint Patrick wasn’t originally called Patrick. His birth name was Maewyn Succat, but he changed his name to Patricius after becoming a priest. Patrick, or Patricius derives from the Latin term for "father figure".

Saint Patrick's color was blue, not green, say historians. The hue — St. Patrick's blue, a lighter shade — can still be seen on ancient Irish flags and was used on armbands and flags by members of the Irish Citizen Army, whose 1916 Easter Rising attempted to end British rule. But the use of green on St. Patrick's Day began during the 1798 Irish Rebellion, when the clover became a symbol of nationalism and the "wearing of the green" on lapels became regular practice. The green soon spread to uniforms as well. That evolution, combined with the idea of Ireland's lush green fields, eventually made blue a thing of the past.

Blarney Stone:

It's supposed to give you "the gift of gab," but it can also give you a stiff neck — and countless germs. The Blarney Stone is a must-see tourist destination in Blarney Castle, near Cork, Ireland, and 400,000 visitors line up every year to kiss it in hopes of boosting their eloquence. But it isn't so easy to smooch the stone — you must sit on a ledge while someone holds down your legs, then bend over backward while holding iron rails until your face is level with the stone. Congrats, you've now kissed a surface similarly kissed by hundreds of thousands of others. Hopefully the gift of gab is worth the bacteria.
I will have a green one - thank you

Cheers, or rather Sláinte

16th March 2019 - Application for Mythodea in submitted

Thought for the day:"I don’t have bad hand-writing – I have my own font"

A busy Saturday with the Installation of the Court of Sweyn's Eye at Swansea. A nice meeting with the installation address and Grand Court Certificate.

After procedures are normally in the Brunswick Arms for the evening ... but a Wales Ireland Rugby Match ( A Grand Slam it seems) meant that the place was packed. Unwilling to spend a few hours standing in a Rugby crowd I made my way back home by train - and watched the match at home.

Which saved me a considerable amount of money as I reckon. And it wasn't a bad match!

Meanwhile, in other news - politics...     

Finally, Mythodea decided to open their doors for applications for the forthcoming August event...

I have filled in the application and we will see whether they want me this year ...

We will wait and see what happens next 

and so another day passes..

Cheers!

15th March 2019 - Once more the Ides

Thought for the day; "Remember the Ides of March – It is not just about stabbing! It is about coming together in groups to stab people."

So, another year comes around and we reach the Ides of March again.

Meanwhile, more talk about the tavern and the way forward. Totally unresolved at the moment - a bit like a CrimsonExit or Crexit - the nearer we get the further we seem to be from any ideas....

Always worth a picture though.

Working upon the second track / video with full links- remix of Valeria with links ...

So - best get back to learning ...

 

14th March 2019 - Caravan & Camping and Insurance

Thought for the day:"I really do not mind getting old, but my body is taking it badly.."

Caravan And Camping Club membership renewed

Apparently, as I said I was  member there was a discount - but I hadn't checked if I had renewed over the last five years - which of course I haven't - and since my old membership number was 552419 and the new one is a couple of hundred thousand higher it is probably a little longer than that.

But it would cost and admin fee to change the insurance so it seems that the cover for £39 works out for the best - and I may be able to use some campsites !

Laptop is broken - I have done everything I can to get it working but I think it needs to go to an expert ... so that will; be a few more bob down the pan.

So - not a good start to the day ..
Need to hoover the stairs - I promised to do it three days ago!!!
If a man says he is going to do something he will do it !!  You don't have to remind him every 6 months !!

Parliament have voted not to leave without a deal - but they don't like the deal, so 18 days to go

Oh well

Cheers !