what have I got in my pocket?

Just closed the last page of MST so I'm halfway through my major reread. What did I discover? Well it came to me that the most important character in the books was... The little grey cat. If it wasn't for her intervention then Simon would have been caught and killed by Pryrates before he even found Josua. Assuming, as we must, that this is the same grey cat then we can also say that without her befriending of Guthhwulf, then he would never have survived in the tunnels alone until it was time torescue Simon from the wheel.  In her final scene this cat did something truly remarkable and decided that the time was right to unerringly lead Simon exactly where he needed to go next. To Green Angel Tower.  This is truly a very important cat. Rachel once called it Grimalkin which is a fine old cat name which has more than a little literary background behind it. Shakespeare used it in the opening of Macbeth when a witch says "I come, Graymalkin" The cat was supposed to be a wit...

Come What May Come What May Now ever since 2020 I've been paying extra special attention to the date of May 3rd (1700 GMT) because that was the date when I first saw the shape of things to come. I can't believe I was the only one paying attention to life , the universe and everything on that day since the signs were clearly there that something BIG was going to happen. The BBC played a very big part in my perception of these particular events which means they were deliberately broadcasting clues as information that was meant to be heard and therefore understood by those with ears to hear. And that means that there was a conspiracy at work long before I finally joined the game. Anyway, this year on the fourth anniversary I half expected to hear some more earth shattering news that could be interepretted as being a sign that things were still running pretty much on (or rather off!) course since the science of planetary level events must have a timescale that is measured not in mo...

Today is Eid, a VERY important day for Palestinians and today there has also seen a rather big change in Isreali tactics in Gaza. After bringing up the subject of Ramada being the time too be squeezing the southern city until it squeaked himself, Nutty has clearly failed to deliver on his words since the global opposition has finally crawled into a position against him and said No. The USA support for backing any Israel excuses is now swinging against them, too and so instead of marching into genocide the Israeli army has instead been stood down and sent home for a holiday. Foreign aid to avert famine is now ~1 on the agenda with food aid links being strengthened and new hostage negotiations seem the most likely next step.Nutty himself also had 'Hernia surgery' and was temporarily taken 'off grid' for a few hours. which is true tinfoil for the real conspiracy theorists to chew over. Why was this date important? Because Eid is also rather coincidentally exactly six month...

Leap Day 2024 has been as challenging as usual, especially where  cats are concerned. Hmmm ^oo^, so it will forever now be Poppy Day on Daffodil Day and back in the real world work is calling to me again, I suppose it is then time to write somethinghere  for posterity but sometimes its hard to get off your arse because the immediate future will remain the same with or without my input, this is a long range plan remember? And yet without it, how could I ever hope to change the shape of the world at all? I feel that tmuch his piece is pretty much unnecessary in the grand scheme of things, nothing that you cannot read about elsewhere if you go searching, it's just an update on the unfortunate shapes of the world with maybe a prediction or two for posterity... We have had a landslide up here which has bollixed my plans up. The wet weather responsible has taken us up to ten storms so far this season, equalling the current record albethat a very recent one. I actually have 11 storm ...

Sevren/Severen The largest gap in the narrative in which to insert a piece of Fanfic would cover Kvothe's journey from Imre to Severen. Now! Severen itself is not shown on the original maps but on the new map in the10AE there is a 'notable city' in Vintas called Sevren, located midway between Renere and Tinuë. However, the difference in spelling here to the text is not to be ignored as a mistake, such an error seems very wrong on so many levels that in such an authorised edition the mapmakers got the name wrong accidentally. The only tinfoil that makes any sense to me about these two spelling differences is that the meaning of this cities name is taken from the original Eld Vintic and in that language the difference is between what is essentially two different places, one high and one low. In such an instance the difference may be indicated not by adding an additional word, but by altering the original spelling in a small way. Severen is the name of the upper city and Sevre...

Act I Scene 1 The midddle of Newarre Cob. “It were blue I tell you, Blue! Graham: Now im not saying it weren't a bit blue at the beginning, but its nor blue now, is it, just normal fire colour like Cob: It lit up the sky like a beacon it did, then there were  another  bolt of lightning, only this one went UP, I swear it by the ever moving moon. And then it were just normal fire, the whole church went up in flames. I saw it all from Shep's porch where you had been sleeping off the drink, right... You reckon the priest was caught at home? Well he's not been seen and I can't imagine where else he would have been at that time o night He might have been looking in on the widow Creel, even priests get lonely If there are any bones, it'll be his. (Thought. Two skeletons later found!?) Hap came over from where he had been dousing the last of the fire. Iron wheel was just painted wood.?Far too many unexplained things going on around here of late, we cant just ignore them any...