THIS is the way to waste taxpayer pounds! Hundred Years War database...

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has awarded a Research Grant worth just under £500,000 to Dr Adrian Bell of the ICMA Centre and Professor Anne Curry of the University of Southampton to challenge assumptions about the emergence of professional soldiery between 1369 and 1453.

Which includes something interesting. There are six people in Manhattan with my good old English last name.

And there are four here.

Packaging Fail...

Yes, I know it's their slogan, but...



Yes-

Tell Sarah Brady!

Authorities say the men's plans — in which they used code words like "peanut butter and jelly" for fighting in Somalia and "culinary school" for terrorist camps — were thwarted in part when they could not find training and were unable to buy automatic weapons, authorities said.

It's not the peace prize,

I read the press release.

It's the prize for making the United States...


wait for it...




I wonder if the notes from the deliberations had a bunch of interlocked hearts, and Cupids, and "Mrs. Nobel Peace Prize Committee Obama" drawn all over them?


(Kristin Chenoweth STILL should have won the Tony.)

I love me some Wicked- here's some Brian May productions thereof!

Grown up, formerly rich now broke, LOTR dorks!

A planned community with Old World architectural detailing designed to resemble a Lord of the Rings hobbit village...

Hunting is back...

Woo HOO!

Decent day Saturday, including being in exactly the right place to stop hounds off as they tried to cross a dangerous boundary- and NOT in response to a radio call!

Meantime...