Do We Somehow Absorb The Events Happening As We Are Born?
I don’t mean in an astrological way, as that is a load of old rubbish. But surely the state, feelings and emotions of the mother, must be passed to the child!
When our first son was born in 1969, everybody was on edge for the first moon landing. But it all turned out well! Gayle Hunnicutt whose own son was born at the same time, said her son was placid. Was ours? Perhaps as a young child, but not like how Gayle described her son.
I was born on the 16th August 1947, just a day after India gained independence. I am a few hours late to be one of Midnight’s Children. Has it affected me? I love India and most things Indian. I’ve been twice and hopefully I’ll go again. I’ve just watched John Sergeant’s excellent documentary on Indian railways, which talked eloquently about the tragedy and violence of partition, when around a 1,000,000 people died. It must have been in the papers and on the radio around the time I was born. I’ve also heard of this violence from a man, who at the time was a young officer in the British Army trying to move civilians to safety in soft-skinned vehicles. He wouldn’t talk about it.
In Sergeant’s documentary, we saw how the tragedy still continues, with India and Pakistan refusing to forget the violence and emnity and try to build a better future.
Today London showed how bad that relationship has become, with Pakistan playing Australia at the neutral venue of Lords. Judging by the fact that Pakistan are on top, they will claim victory, when in truth they have been defeated by the terrorists, who have forced them to play in England.
We must learn to renounce violence and surely the Indian sub-continent has seen enough in the last seventy years.
Microsoft Sells Drugs
I actually think not, but this spam e-mail, which looks as if it had come from Microsoft, is actually selling the drugs, that are the main source of income for many crooks and fraudsters around the world. What gave the e-mail away was its title of “Your rod will stay”, so I suppose it was about turning software into hardware!
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The links in the mail actually point to a web site called tastymighty.com, which is registered in China and the e-mail may actually have come from a spammer in Uruguay. The web site is yet another incarnation of the well known fake drug provider, the Canadian Pharmacy.
I have seen spammers using the fake Microsoft e-mail, but not for some time. So beware anything like this, as trying to unsubscribe just takes you to the drug site.
Germans Mess Up A Penalty
Apparently, not all Germans get their penalties right, as this story about the German women’s hockey team in their defeat to England shows.
It also shows that yet another sport is using technology to help its referees. So stop saying “No!”, Mr. Blatter!
The Middlesex Hospital Lives On!
To me, two London hospitals hold pride of place in my mind, St. Bartholemew’s or Barts, as it was the local hospital, when we lived in the Barbican and the Middlesex, as our oldest and youngest sons were born there.
The Middlesex is now just a bricked and boarded-up chapel, surrounded by a vast deserted building site, as it has long been demolished to make way for a hotel and housing.
But something from the Middlesex lives on; the art. Or rather some of the most amazing pieces of Victorian art, that used to be in the hospital reception area.The paintings are now on display at The National Gallery until October. See more here on the BBC. The artist was Frederick Cayley Robinson. Note that the link points to a French entry in Wikipedia, as there is no English one! What does this say about our views on artists?
Bonkers Windows
Because of my gammy left hand Windows is a nightmare.
Take just now. I was writing a post using WordPress and typing things into a large text box. For some reason, it just locked up and refused to accept any characters. I must have hit some control or Windows combination. It did allow U and then started talking to me through a dialog saying it would make my computer easier to you. What a load of crap!
Now if I try to restart the computer, it says my password is wrong. So I have to login to another account and then switch to the one I want.
It’s bad enough having a stroke, without having to fight all the way to work on the computer.
I’m actually on another laptop now, as the other is completely unworkable. For instance if I type a search into this blog, each key seems to bring up a new dialog. It’s almost as if the computer, thinks that the Windows Key is locked down.
Does anybody out there have any idea what is wrong?
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I’m Feeling A Bit Better
Could this be the weather, which is less oppressive, the B12 shot, which seems to have improved my nails or just generally getting better.
A Place To Save Our Money
Yet again, we have scenes of violence and bigotry from Northern Ireland as the Protestants march.
Why? Especially, do we have to subsidise the province and its outdated antics in a time of austerity? We will have to face cuts in the police in the rest of the UK. Does that mean we’re paying for the protection of those bigots? They should grow up!
What’s Wrong With Women Priests?
A woman priest has just said on BBC Breakfast, that as she walked down the Holloway Road, a man came up to her and said she was a disgrace because she was a woman and a priest. It’s not her, that’s the disgrace, but the bigot who said that.
So now we’re going to have women bishops! I can see no reason why. What is much more worrying about religion is those faiths and so-called believers that want to deny others their human rights. There were two examples yesterday; the Protestant marches in Northern Ireland and the Despatches program detailing the treatment of homosexuals in Africa. Although the latter wasn’t specifically about religion, religious organisations in Africa do not always embrace those with a different sexual orientation or even gender.
When faced with these sort of unplesant views and incidents, it drives any organised religion farther from my soul. But that doesn’t stop me following a general moral code, that is to the benefit of all, whether they be man or woman, gay or straight, black or white.
The Anonymous Widower 