When an odd conversation in the family circle, which centred around a rather grisly subject, found me on my phone looking up facts, my brother-in-law mentioned that should my search history ever get looked at by the police it would look pretty suspicious.
To which I replied, “It would anyway.”
What author hasn’t thought this? That were their search history ever to be looked at by law enforcement (or even just someone fairly normal) that the impression might be given that they’re a danger to society?
So, I decided to come clean. I’m going to run a weekly segment where I post a list of everything I searched for that week. I’ll leave off the boring ones, like “amazon full site” but I’ll show you all the others, just for a laugh.
Just don’t call the police on me.
This week’s list of highly suspicious searches…
Quill, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Amaria maid to Eleanor of Aquitaine, Amaria name origins, Tumblers medieval Bernard of Clairvaux, Mouldy bread to treat wounds, Mushrooms or Fungi to treat wounds, Home made penicillin, Flowers of Istanbul, The people of Constantinople, Races present in medieval Constantinople, Hildegard von Bingen, Ox horn window panes, Glass window panes history, Window shutters medieval images, Repot a fruit tree when? Haunted house dreams, Easy dinner ideas, Bobbi Holmes, Midges Scotland, Disability and the Tudors, Tudor Fools, 1547 Slavery Law England, Pembroke and Anne Parr, Touching for the King’s Evil, Scrofula, Bridewell Hospital London, Bethlem London, Will Somers, Cramp Rings, Daemonologie King James, Falling Sickness, Elizabeth Barton, Wandering Womb, Eaglets, Gyrfalcon, Nests of Gyrfalcon, Edible wayside plants, Poisonous wayside plants, Poisonous plants easily mistaken for edible ones, Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Witches live in Blackthorn? Fairy rings are which mushroom? Howleglas, English Poor Law 1531, Leg Ulcers, Armour weight, Chainmail weight, Are cats colourblind? Kung Fu, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Lords and Ladies plant.
See you next week!
Will Somers, King Henry VIII's fool, clearly was no fool at all to have survived through all those Anne Boleyn period and thereafter years of Henry's crazed suspicions and accusations!