`` Liar and a Dreamer''

 Looks like my twenties are over. The place that gave me and my brother the nickname the Twins It was a ride From what I heard a lot of the original staff went onto fame and fortune.  Some stories The barman who was from Chiswick, whose mum married money..and ended up working there The story about one of the first ATM's being located nearby. This ATM malfunctioned and was basically paying out money. The whole neighborhood queued up outside. Payments at the time-early 80s could not be traced. So basically the police supervised a bank robbery.. The bank came round months later asking people did they want to pay back any money they earned The Lithuanian MD, who after completing his studies, was conscripted, by the Lithuanian, Soviet, German and US armies, one after the other. The US army had the best food Everyone liked our sister more.. Drinking Killian's red and listening to the wolfetones The GAA match when there were two guys on the run, and there were IRA snipers in the tree...

 Comedian, Writer, Husband,  Passed today from Cancer at 58

  So I have the heroine for my TV series set in Turn of the century Argentina. Ana Taylor Joy! Here she is resplendent in  period costume ( Yes I am aware Peaky Blinders is set a generation later )  So our Ana is an Anglo Argentine, she has been in London in suffragette circles making a bit of a scandal. She is sent on tour of south america, to do some improving work, and for things to cool down with  As a chaperone ( Lucy Davis,Dawn from the office ) Her second cousin or such.  The boot  shine boys are on strike. Ana is in favour of their cause. She signs their petition, talks with a few. There might be a scene  The lads are beginning to surround her Then a beeping motor horn and a few choice words in spanish   Ana sees her knight in shining linen . Captain Jack Crawson a Young Scottish man, recently moved to B.A Quite wealthy. Up and coming. Smooth and a little dangerous https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1641117/?ref_=nmls_hd Crawson can be playe...

 I had a very disturbing nightmare last night. I was sleeping-actually in my childhood bed. When everything went darl and noisy- I was listening to white noise. I could feel myself vanishing fading away. I was terrified I would leave my daughter alone. Begging to be let live until I woke myself up 

 Alex Cord Archangel in Airwolf 1933- 2021 Passed last week. I was watching him that very night in Airwolf. As Archangel Michael Coldsmith Briggs 3rd FFV. I loved his white outfit as a child  He also appeared in War of the Worlds,  Simon and Simon, and Murder she wrote He worked in Britan and the USA Father, Cowboy, Actor Godspeed''

 So today I  am on Twitter and I read a post about slavery in early medieval Ireland.  https://twitter.com/thecelticist/status/1426591761539997699 Yes, slavery is a horror. Let there be no argument about this.   I note that Irish and British early medieval historians downplay the importance of slavery in both of their societies  Dublin was the slave market for a lot of the early medieval period, and 10 percent of the population of England were slaves at the conquest.  So a cumal is a unit of value- a slave woman - an ounce 25 grams of silver or three milk cows. I had it in mind that the word Cumal is from a Latin loan word for girl. Loan words from Latin to Irish are not unusual. Long for Ship, is believed to come from Latin. Although if I recall correctly Latin and Irish show a thousand years of linguistic drift So about the same as English and Danish  The theory  I believed was that Cumal had come to the Irish language via the slave trade w...

  I watched the A-Team, and Magnum P.I, this weekend. I was impressed by both episodes . A low down of the A-team episode follows The A- Team, The Wheel of Fortune is from the fourth series of the A-Team. The episode is of course almost a crossover with the ABC series Wheel of Fortune. The episode almost looks like a pastiche - We see Vana White working the board, and in stock footage after the credits You see B.A in Face's apartment watching the Chicago Bills in their pomp - The Refrigerator, is powering through an NFL defense. B.A is even holding an America Football in that weird way while that Americans do- while watching the game Hannibal is down in Rio, with a pair of twins, who are staying on his casting couch... Yes it is the 80's it is not subtle  We get to see Dwight Schultz play it more or less straight and it's good. It turns out that Captain  Murdock flew for Air America in Vietnam. His reputation has proceeded him and he is kidnapped by a CIA team to steal a ...

 A happy Lughnasa England came close to victory in Euro 2020. There were sharp scenes in Wembley at the final game.  I went to see QPR play yesterday A draw against Leciester city with 3 goals, each.  I have finished watching Cheers  Ireland has three medals in the Tokyo Olympics Peru is 200 years old.  My sister is on holiday in Portugal, Robyn is making a film with Nick Nolte. My daughter was visited by her aunt Nancy,  We have had spells of warm and wet weather I wish my readers well 

Peru  Dos cent anos este semana Vive el republica 

When I was about 9 or 10 years old  I had a teacher from Boston. I remember he told us that every Friday he watched Cheers on Channel 4- It was his favorite TV program .I have remembered him, as I have reached Cheers during the Pandemic. With the pubs closed. With no holidays booked No football matches to cheer. My brother and I have with a few beers, and some snacks taken to watching classic TV. Such as ; Magnum PI, The A-Team. Air Wolf- Frasier and  Cheers.  I remembered my old teacher, and I wondered how comforting Cheers would have been to him- An American living away from home. Having been an exile myself I know   I remember watching the final episode on live TV. It would have been my third or fourth year at High School.  I remembered the cast smoking cigars in the last scene.  Which is actually a very 1990s trope- The  late 1990s was the era of Cigar Afficando magazine  What can I say about Cheers!   Firstly Diane- Diane Chamb...