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The Field Elm
The Common Elm or the Field Elm. The Common Elm or the Field Elm is a tall tree. It has an erect cylindrical trunk bearing a massive circular crown. It may attain a height of one hundred and thirty feet. It could have a girth of about twenty feet. The...
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Compulsory Primary Education
Everybody should know how to read and write and how to count, so that everybody can help the society with a better capacity. Primary education is based mainly on reading, writing and arithmetic. This is the minimum education that one should get, Advantages:...
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Trees give us life
. Trees give us life directly and indirectly as they are source of oxygen production, CO2 consumption and source of rain. They are most precious gift to the humanity on the earth from nature for which we must be grateful, give honour and preserve for...
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Ospreys in Scotland
The mighty Ospreys are one of the best known birds of prey in the Cairngorms National Park. Although still relatively uncommon in Scotland, they are not a naturally rare bird and it is thought that as many as 1500 pairs could breed in Britain and Ireland....
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Sunny Sweltering Glasgow
A Sunny Sweltering Glasgow this week. Extreme heat with hot, hot and hot throughout The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It will rise to more than 35 celsisius in temperature perhaps rising to near enough a hundred fahereneit. It...
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snowing on a January day
Christmas has finished New year has come and gone Now the wind is bringing some Snow All is well on this wonderful start to a great adventure UK weather: new year set for frosty start as odds on coldest January slashed ‘Beast from the east’-style cold...
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Charity
"Charity is a cold, grey, loveless thing’, said Clem Attlee (1920) when he exhorted the wealthy to pay their taxes in full measure to help those poorer than themselves. A hundred years on & the need is no less pressing. All those £trillions salted away...
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Mass surveillance a Reality
More than half of all American adults have had their likeness cataloged in databases used for facial recognition matching, and a quarter of law enforcement agencies across the country have access to those databases. Mass surveillance has only gotten more...
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Helensburgh
A wee trip of Helensburgh to Glasgow Train station at Helensburgh was not the start of the Journey But here it is at the station of Helensburgh on this Saturday Having bought the ticket it was time to embark the wagon For a journey of less than an hour...
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Published from Overblog
Fabryka wspomnień czyli tajniki historii mówionej Grażyna Bąkiewicz: Fabrykanci i miejskie legendy Łodzi
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Somersault by Zzzzz
Somersault An acrobatic exercise in which the body rotates 360° around a horizontal axis with the feet passing over the head. The variety that takes place on the ground is known as roll. The word originates from an obsolete French word sobresaut, which...
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Ecclesiastes
Derek Mahon . Your people await you, their heavy washing flaps for you in the housing estates – a credulous people. God, you could do it, God help you, stand on a corner stiff with rhetoric, promising nothing under the sun. Ecclesiastes explores the unique...
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Antonio Pisanello: The Vision of St. Eustace
Antonio Pisanello: The Vision of St. Eustace Whenever I have some time whilst walking through the National Gallery what I would do is that I would look at one picture. So sometimes I would look at just this picture. Spending perhaps about fifteen minutes...
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Prince Charles writing a ladybird book
The Ladybird Book on Climate Change. by Prince Charles In 2015, he did give a talk about Climate Change at a UN Paris Conference. Now he is writing book on the climate change He has argued to stop the state subsidising the oil companies and the gas and...
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Saint Clare of Assisi
Saint Clare of Assisi One of the more sugary movies made about Francis of Assisi pictures Clare as a golden-haired beauty floating through sun-drenched fields, a sort of one-woman counterpart to the new Franciscan Order. The beginning of her religious...
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Did we learn from Beeching
When Beeching butchered the railways for the English Conservative government, at the cost of 67,000 jobs and to the massive inconvenience of many, it was in fact but a tiny precursor of what the Tories are about to do to Britain now. But who could possibly...
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la Luftwaffe et la RAF
Pendant la bataille d'Angleterre, en 1940, le ciel au-dessus du sud de l'Angleterre est devenu un champ de bataille. Pendant trois longs mois, la Luftwaffe et la RAF se sont affrontées dans une bataille pour la suprématie aérienne, la survie de la Grande-Bretagne...
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Coronavirus19 drama made last year
Incredible but German and Dutch foresaw the virus last year and have made this excellent program it is in English subtitles so many people can watch it and enjoy the drama. In the drama they are advised to wear face masks and practice social distancing....
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Criticism Destroys Your Marriage
Criticism Destroys Your Marriage criticism: It has no place in a healthy, God-honoring marriage. “Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.”...
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Dark Towers
"Dark Towers in danger!" This is part 1 of "Dark Towers", a British show made in 1981 but used for many years after to teach children basic reading skills. In this episode: Tracy hates people, but loves her dog Towser. Edward Dark hates people, but enjoys...
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Ballet dancing to Rolling Stones
Ballet dancing outside to the music of Rolling Stones It is wonderful “Life was so beautiful / Then we all got locked down.” dancers performing on empty streets and outside iconic venues that are closed to the public, including the Royal Ballet’s Covent...
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Police shooting Nurses. Is USA going crazy
What sort of society Money for guns and tanks and rubber bullets No money to protect the doctors and nurses Money for police, militia and law enforcment No money for Youth clubs and schools Money For the elite and corporations No money for the poor, ill...
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This is America - This is New York
On a Bicycle I love to ride my bicycle it is freedom for me I do not ride fast I just plod along just three gears A city bike I loved cycled in Tokyo I loved cycling in London I love cycling in Glasgow I loved cycling in Berlin I love cycling in Krakow...
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Paul Robeson and Gaelic Hebridean songs
Our Scottish Gaelic language and culture, has a priceless asset, but why are so many Scots unaware of our language There as been a remarkably consistent hostility to Gaelic throughout time. To much of Scotland, via both church and state, the Gaels were...
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Haggis ice cream
Haggis, the national dish of Scotland, is a savoury meat pudding made with sheep organs. Mackie's 19.2 ice cream parlor in Marischal Square, Aberdeen serves up unusual flavors — including one topped with haggis and marmalade. Alongside waffles and sundaes,...