An interesting Life!

Queen Victoria

An entry in Queen Victoria's Diary - a book she made an entry into every day of her life.

'Lord Melbourne said my little terrier followed him downstairs into the hall
yesterday, and he could hardly get rid of her!

What an interesting life Victoria must have had if that was the only thing worth recording!

Martin Luther King

 

 

It is 50 years ago since Martin Luther King made the powerful speech about racialism and there are still many people who do not see it as making any difference.  It did and it still is, though nothing comes easily when it is so deep rooted and wrong.   This week in my city of Bristol we are reminded that it was 50 years ago since 'we'

struck a blow for racial equality by allowing black people to work on the buses as drivers and conductors; until then they had not been allowed that dubious privilege.  I don't think it was any coincidence that this happened at the same time as Dr King's speech in America.  A great splash causes many waves and this may have been a small thing to happen on the other side of the world but it led to freedom for all people in the city whatever their colour or class to apply to work wherever they wished.  Dr King we honour you. RIP

The Syrian City of Homs

Homs was a major industrial centre and the third largest city in Syria and boasted many historic Mosques and Christian Churches.
In October last year the very last Christian was murdered.   Now there are none of the 80,000 who lived in this city before jihad came.
My government until recently have hardly reported this being too involved with changing the law so that same sex people can get married.
Yesterday 44 Christians were sliced up in Nigeria and others had their eyes gourged out - no talk of intervention or even a protest to the Government of Nigeria.
I am sorry but I don't care about same sex marriages - they are not being killed and persecuted - be still, shut up and think yourselves lucky.

try again

I have had so much trouble with this blog during the past year I have given it up many times but I have
decided to try again now that access appears to be possible again.

home grown tomatoes

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What a lot of lovely tomatoes we have this year; they have loved
the many days of sunshine almost as much as I have.
Remembering when we lived in Spain and every journey west on the Autopista took us past many acres of a tomato farm growing exclusively the 'Alicante' variety, and the smell came into the car via the windows or the air/con system all the way from Villajoyosa to Alicante - lovely.  I had hardly ever eaten tomatoes until I went to live in Spain and then I discovered the fruit ripening in the sun instead of in the back of lorries had a whole new taste and the roughly shaped green tomatoes grown exclusively by the locals where just perfect, what they lacked in shape they more than made up for in sweetness and the taste of sunshine.   I somehow don't think the pounds of tomatoes from my garden will taste anything like their Spanish garden produce but I have looked after them and they'll do for me.