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Mature History Graduate & Potential Museum Worker Writing About Anything That Takes His Fancy. I will try to concentrate on Civil Wars in 2022, Fun Facts & Hidden History Will Be Forthcoming, watch this blog!OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.comBlogger180125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-57538234855692314632023-06-17T20:52:00.000+01:002023-06-17T20:52:07.603+01:00British Civil War - Culloden 1746<iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/nmEuXaea8rY" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><p> Jacobites. The ousted House Of Stuart tried a few times to retake the crown and led a few abortive uprisings in Britain, but the most famous battle & the last battle to be fought on British soil was Culloden, 16th April, 1746. Bonnie Prince Charlie on one side, son of James Stuart, rightful King James VIII of Britain v the Duke Of Cumberland, son of King George II of Hanover - legal King on the other. </p><p>Much has been written and said of the uprisings and battles, but something that is sometimes not mentioned is the fact that there were Scots wearing redcoats as well as those with a blue bonnet & kilt This is true. Maybe some people don't like the truth, but there were Grants, Campbells, in the 1st, 21st & 25th Foot Regiments, Argyll Militia, Scottish Artillery and more in the British Army. The Jacobite Army was mostly Scottish but, it also contained English, Irish, Welsh & French. Much has been written about Culloden - and continues to be written byt Scotland's Story by Tom Steele, available 2nd hand on Amazon, is a good read as is Culloden by John Prebble.</p><p>The battle took place near Inverness on Drumossie Moor and lasted about an hour. Flat boggy terrain, cold, wet miserable weather and the Jacobite Army at about a third of its strength made a fairly easy victory for the Redcoats. The resulting victory meant no more battles between England & Scotland, it was the last battle to be fought on British soil. Bonnie Prince Charlie escaped, on the run 5 months, escaped to Europe and died in Rome a drunk. Many of his comrades were not that fortunate, many transported to America to be indentured, many executed or imprisoned. No accurate figures exist but it is estimated 50 redcoats died and approximately 1250 Jacobites.</p><p><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-91645159445104144252023-01-02T20:19:00.003+00:002023-01-02T20:19:13.448+00:00Civil Wars #civil war #theanarchy<p> Civil wars. A very strange description of something that really, in my opinion is anything but civil. They tend to be very bloody affairs. Civil wars often divide families; brother fighting brother. cousin fighting cousin and so on. I am going to write about civil wars across the world, not just in Britain. </p><p>When anyone mentions civil wars, people tend to think about the Union & Confederacy of the United States. That civil war must be one of the most discussed, researched and even photographed. There are many more for people to research and learn about. Civil wars in Russia for instance, France, Mozambique, Scotland, China, </p><p>I am starting with the Anarchy. this took place in England & Normandy between 1138 & 1153. King Stephen & Queen Matilda appeared to be the main protagonists. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBAY9BwsqRbDgG6pxSkpxazC02R704D1xb397YgW8V7MZLn6P1XOXymRFklx7c6YksFb3xY1PFwm52qbnFJU0vLd7XPV1xfIlJ2kI6TDJxmB15qJF1Ch6KiKiSmQOHtCMp2IJ2B14ogq0x_BbikrHz7fZx0Qxyp7W2XY9Gac_yRn7LfgrAyxTArGMkLw/s1329/king-stephen-of-england-york-minster-11533.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1009" data-original-width="1329" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBAY9BwsqRbDgG6pxSkpxazC02R704D1xb397YgW8V7MZLn6P1XOXymRFklx7c6YksFb3xY1PFwm52qbnFJU0vLd7XPV1xfIlJ2kI6TDJxmB15qJF1Ch6KiKiSmQOHtCMp2IJ2B14ogq0x_BbikrHz7fZx0Qxyp7W2XY9Gac_yRn7LfgrAyxTArGMkLw/w320-h243/king-stephen-of-england-york-minster-11533.jpg" title="King Stephen I England statue at York Minster" width="320" /></a></div>|<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0QWKZTFZBP5H9Drmk6H3KGJostCVe9B8HQ73cPwUo5ito1hR-jc_idMFjHznuazfAWtbQuOLTDIzbzEEB4NoPMFHChSVdD1Ig1N2KWDPKlFRV-Qb8FhfzH3A2G1vejTHe0ATuEtKjoEGU6l-KBB8ZPrpbmglJOzm_KpWKr7pdOLNZVCmi_cMlleQDiA/s696/Empress_Matilda.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="438" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0QWKZTFZBP5H9Drmk6H3KGJostCVe9B8HQ73cPwUo5ito1hR-jc_idMFjHznuazfAWtbQuOLTDIzbzEEB4NoPMFHChSVdD1Ig1N2KWDPKlFRV-Qb8FhfzH3A2G1vejTHe0ATuEtKjoEGU6l-KBB8ZPrpbmglJOzm_KpWKr7pdOLNZVCmi_cMlleQDiA/w201-h320/Empress_Matilda.png" title="Queen Matilda" width="201" /></a></div><br /><p>(The problem with blogging about events from over 900 years ago is there are no photographs or quality images!). </p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>How Did It Begin?</u></b></p><p><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p>Like many wars, it began by accident. William, son of Henry I died when the White Ship sank in 1120. The line of succession was fought over by Stephen & Matilda. Matilda had been named successor, but was not popular because she was a woman, and also married to Geoffrey of Anjou, who had been at war with Henry at the time of his death. Stephen crossed the Channel from Boulogne and was crowned King on December 22nd. Matilda refused to step aside and war was the result.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Famous Battles & Sieges</u></b></p><p>1141 Lincoln</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>How Did It End?</u></b></p><p><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p>Henry was Matilda's son, and was camped at Wallingford July 1953 with his army. Stephen's army was also there, but nobles on each side refused to fight. The Treaty of Winchester meant Stephen continued to rule and Henry was to be his successor, the first Plantaganet King of England.</p><p><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p><br /></p>OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-41065345493294256732021-12-06T21:19:00.001+00:002021-12-06T21:23:02.103+00:00Christmas & What It Means To Me<p> </p><main aria-hidden="true" class="_3DNG1sdcLAZO6TbbGodA0C _3689HHl2aUBIbXn_Ld_o1 _3kaR9cFVJE1XRpKEvyboDI" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: "Segoe UI WestEuropean", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; left: 0px; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; position: relative; top: 48px; width: 360px;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font: inherit; height: 463px; margin: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 0px; 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height: 40px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 40px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><div class="ms-Persona-imageArea _2aBafMcwcY_dFH5OWwi-cL" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 40px; font: inherit; height: 40px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 40px;"><div class="ms-Image _25SgAC2THz39BvqiufSxyb ms-Persona-image WGxGlu5xMejH-ISjkt_O8" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 40px; font: inherit; height: 40px; left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; object-fit: cover; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; perspective: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 40px;"><img alt="" class="ms-Image-image _1DVIB03SuY5H8SdJsjjD3D ms-Image-image--portrait _2HAe-9YJPywJw9qa5725Ro ms-Image-image--cover _1TeJpHq8jU12gHHTzywQjb is-loaded _35uXdGEpUBwzgpyWlTIXO2" src="blob:https://outlook.live.com/898a3a8b-c7a4-4a88-be42-c8384f09a6e4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font: inherit; height: auto; left: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 20px; transform: translate(-50%, -50%); vertical-align: baseline; width: 40px;" /></div></div></div></div></div><div class="_3lpsXPkuKMjWuDnmH875Di" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-pack: center; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font: inherit; height: 80px; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; padding: 13px 12px 8px 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 64px);"><div aria-label="eBay,🚚 Order update: Dutch (Hugo in 3 Mon...,2021-12-06T13:11:42Z,folder Inbox, 1 unread message, .Long Press to go to selection mode.Expected: Thu, 09 Dec Hi Jonathan, your order is being posted! Tracking number: L12612111001140673 Track order Go to site Tracking data usually becomes available within a few hours after the order is sent. Your order will be sent to: Jonath" role="button" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><div class="_3u5E7PV3Kb0KggEMO4cbYL" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="_3f1frmGVMnTPVcBSQnwZMN _1IP1QOOCg9X_GlbfxeZ4UO" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; height: 24px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 1px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">eBay</div></div><div class="_3u5E7PV3Kb0KggEMO4cbYL" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="_31SXtmftpRX4pFHPHM_vYK _1IP1QOOCg9X_GlbfxeZ4UO" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0078d4; flex-grow: 1; font-size: 15px; height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">🚚 Order update: Dutch (Hugo in 3 Mon...</h2><time class="_1NbuMoCUEutxrfb85HGOQX" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0078d4; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; margin-left: 12px; white-space: nowrap;">13:11</time></div><div class="_3u5E7PV3Kb0KggEMO4cbYL" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="_1fAeGoeWxvqvWuxErKN2V5 _1IP1QOOCg9X_GlbfxeZ4UO" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; height: 20px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">Expected: Thu, 09 Dec Hi Jonathan, your order is being posted! Tracking number: L12612111001140673 Track order Go to site Tracking data usually becomes available within a few hours after the order is sent. Your order will be sent to: Jonath</div></div></div></div></article></div></div><div class="BDgmhx4RDiHEbir5iiHNe" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; height: 80px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 352px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 360px;"><div role="group" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><article class="_3EGsJV1ZaGmmkydXc4Ql9z _3lGrOyHYItKSSyzx6jqhXY _1TowruQbrMiPJ_SI4JIBje _2JbAZgvtW_-poP892CUKZF _1pMzhGfMzhYkgTRrVH7Le5" data-testid="MailListItem" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 80px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 360px;"><div aria-hidden="true" class="u4LygxaYLovFihgKKudQv" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-pack: center; align-items: center; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex: 0 0 40px; font: inherit; height: 40px; justify-content: center; margin: 15px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div aria-haspopup="false" aria-hidden="false" aria-label="Contact card for Jonathan Severs" class="ms-Persona _1yda5T-fNqwsnoT49Htt37 -iUhl66Uf5yERAQHkHKsq ms-Persona--sm _1mtQ8MPbQJsF7JbDLsgqLc" data-testid="Persona" role="button" size="3" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; height: 40px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 40px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><div class="ms-Persona-imageArea _2aBafMcwcY_dFH5OWwi-cL" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 40px; font: inherit; height: 40px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 40px;"><div aria-hidden="true" class="ms-Persona-initials _27m6fsJch68dRvBXlXNUA3 ms-Persona-initials--darkBlue _1GQUymSUwFOO3Sk8MrQd4y" style="background-color: #2d89ef; border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; height: 40px; line-height: 40px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">JS</span></div><div class="ms-Image _25SgAC2THz39BvqiufSxyb ms-Persona-image WGxGlu5xMejH-ISjkt_O8" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 40px; font: inherit; height: 40px; left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; object-fit: cover; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; perspective: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 40px;"><img alt="" class="ms-Image-image _1DVIB03SuY5H8SdJsjjD3D ms-Image-image--portrait _2HAe-9YJPywJw9qa5725Ro ms-Image-image--cover _1TeJpHq8jU12gHHTzywQjb is-notLoaded is-fadeIn" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font: inherit; height: auto; left: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 20px; transform: translate(-50%, -50%); vertical-align: baseline; width: 40px;" /></div></div></div></div></div><div class="_3lpsXPkuKMjWuDnmH875Di" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-pack: center; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font: inherit; height: 80px; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; padding: 13px 12px 8px 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 64px);"><div aria-label="Jonathan Severs,christmas,2021-12-06T11:18:57Z,folder Inbox, .Long Press to go to selection mode.Christmas Christmas is one of my favourite times of year. Sending Christmas cards to friends and relatives, getting the Christmas tree out of the loft and decorating it every year (including a star on the top), brightens up the house in our darkest month" role="button" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><div class="_3u5E7PV3Kb0KggEMO4cbYL" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="_3f1frmGVMnTPVcBSQnwZMN _1IP1QOOCg9X_GlbfxeZ4UO" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; height: 24px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 1px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">Jonathan Severs</div></div><div class="_3u5E7PV3Kb0KggEMO4cbYL" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="_31SXtmftpRX4pFHPHM_vYK _1IP1QOOCg9X_GlbfxeZ4UO" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; flex-grow: 1; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 400; height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">christmas</h2><time class="_1NbuMoCUEutxrfb85HGOQX" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 12px; white-space: nowrap;">11:18</time></div><div class="_3u5E7PV3Kb0KggEMO4cbYL" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="_1fAeGoeWxvqvWuxErKN2V5 _1IP1QOOCg9X_GlbfxeZ4UO" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; height: 20px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">Christmas Christmas is one of my favourite times of year. Sending Christmas cards to friends and relatives, getting the Christmas tree out of the loft and decorating it every year (including a star on the top), brightens up the house in our darkest month</div></div></div></div></article></div></div><div class="BDgmhx4RDiHEbir5iiHNe" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; height: 80px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 432px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 360px;"><div role="group" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><article class="_3qb1Y1K0x5Id1Za9i7WUdl _3EGsJV1ZaGmmkydXc4Ql9z _3lGrOyHYItKSSyzx6jqhXY _1TowruQbrMiPJ_SI4JIBje _2JbAZgvtW_-poP892CUKZF _1pMzhGfMzhYkgTRrVH7Le5" data-testid="MailListItem" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 80px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 360px;"><div aria-hidden="true" class="u4LygxaYLovFihgKKudQv" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-box-pack: center; align-items: center; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex: 0 0 40px; font: inherit; height: 40px; justify-content: center; margin: 15px 12px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div aria-haspopup="false" aria-hidden="false" aria-label="Contact card for eBay" class="ms-Persona _1yda5T-fNqwsnoT49Htt37 -iUhl66Uf5yERAQHkHKsq ms-Persona--sm _1mtQ8MPbQJsF7JbDLsgqLc" data-testid="Persona" role="button" size="3" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; height: 40px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 40px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><div class="ms-Persona-imageArea _2aBafMcwcY_dFH5OWwi-cL" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 40px; font: inherit; height: 40px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 40px;"><div class="ms-Image _25SgAC2THz39BvqiufSxyb ms-Persona-image WGxGlu5xMejH-ISjkt_O8" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; border-radius: 50%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 40px; font: inherit; height: 40px; left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; object-fit: cover; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; perspective: 1px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 40px;"><img alt="" class="ms-Image-image _1DVIB03SuY5H8SdJsjjD3D ms-Image-image--portrait _2HAe-9YJPywJw9qa5725Ro ms-Image-image--cover _1TeJpHq8jU12gHHTzywQjb is-loaded _35uXdGEpUBwzgpyWlTIXO2" src="blob:https://outlook.live.com/898a3a8b-c7a4-4a88-be42-c8384f09a6e4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font: inherit; height: auto; left: 20px; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: 20px; transform: translate(-50%, -50%); vertical-align: baseline; width: 40px;" /></div></div></div></div></div><div class="_3lpsXPkuKMjWuDnmH875Di" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-pack: center; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font: inherit; height: 80px; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; padding: 13px 12px 8px 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 64px);"><div aria-label="eBay,✅ Order confirmed: Dutch (Hugo in 3 Mon...,2021-12-05T13:13:25Z,folder Inbox, 1 unread message, .Long Press to go to selection mode.Expected: Thu, 09 Dec. Look out for an update with the delivery confirmation. Thanks for another purchase, Jonathan. Your order is confirmed. We'll let you know when it's on the way. In the meantime, get our app to receive real-time tracking updat" role="button" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0"><div class="_3u5E7PV3Kb0KggEMO4cbYL" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="_3f1frmGVMnTPVcBSQnwZMN _1IP1QOOCg9X_GlbfxeZ4UO" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; height: 24px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 1px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">eBay</div></div><div class="_3u5E7PV3Kb0KggEMO4cbYL" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="_31SXtmftpRX4pFHPHM_vYK _1IP1QOOCg9X_GlbfxeZ4UO" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0078d4; flex-grow: 1; font-size: 15px; height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 1px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">✅ Order confirmed: Dutch (Hugo in 3 Mon...</h2><time class="_1NbuMoCUEutxrfb85HGOQX" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0078d4; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 600; margin-left: 12px; white-space: nowrap;">Sun 13:13</time></div><div class="_3u5E7PV3Kb0KggEMO4cbYL" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="_1fAeGoeWxvqvWuxErKN2V5 _1IP1QOOCg9X_GlbfxeZ4UO" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; flex-grow: 1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; height: 20px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">Expected: Thu, 09 Dec. Look out for an update with the delivery confirmation. Thanks for another purchase, Jonathan. Your order is confirmed. We'll let you know when it's on the way. 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We'll let you know as soon as we receive it. 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Look out for an update with the delivery confirmation. Thanks for another purchase, Jonathan. Your order is confirmed. We'll let you know when it's on the way. 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Sending Christmas cards to friends and relatives, getting the Christmas tree out of the loft and decorating it every year (including a star on the top), brightens up the house in our darkest month of the year. As a Christian though, what I like most about Christmas is going to Church during Advent and (Covid allowing) going for Midnight Mass at my local Methodist Church. Singing Carols & Christmas songs probably makes Christmas for me - I sing in a local choir, and every year we have a concert (Covid permitting) to raise money for a children's charity -Action For Children <a data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://www.actionforchildren.org.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: blue; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.actionforchildren.org.uk/</span></a>. In 2019 we raised over £1500 from donations.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Christmas traditionally starts on December 25th in most countries and lasts for 12 days. It does not finish on Boxing Day so I make a point of playing Christmas songs for the duration of the festival & taking decorations down on 12th night. However, other Christian denominations may celebrate Christmas at different times of year- (For Oriental Orthodox Christians Christmas starts on January 7th, Armenian Apostolic Church January 6th & Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem January 19th).</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As a Christian I do get annoyed that Christmas is flogged to death by retail and the mantra is to spend, spend, spend. Christmas for many can mean new debt in the New Year. You don't have to spend a fortune, and let's be honest, how much will end up going to the tip or Charity shop within 12 months? How about a contribution to a charity or actually buying something that will be long lasting? What Christmas means to me is thinking of others especially those far less fortunate than us. Spending time with family & friends is something that money can't buy. I never tire of the story of the Nativity, how a star appeared and guided three/four Kings to a stable in Bethlehem to pay homage to Baby Jesus in a stable. Above all, what Christmas means to me is Peace & Goodwill to all men & women - regardless of belief, race, gender, age etc.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some Christmas Factoids</span></u></b><span lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">December 25th was originally chosen for Christmas in Ancient Rome, this date was originally used to celebrate the unconquered sun (Saturnalia Festival</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In Scandinavia, Yule was celebrated from December 21st- the Winter Solstice. The largest logs would be brought into the home which would burn up to 12 days, they feasted during this time. The Norse belief was that each spark from the fire would bear a new calf or piglet in the new year.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Winter feasts were traditional in pagan times, celebrating the end of winter as cattle were slaughtered so they did not need feeding in winter and alcohol had finished fermenting.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From 1644 when Britain was a Republic, Christmas was banned until 1660, to help rid England of 'decadence'. Ba Humbug eh?</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Father Christmas was first seen in England in the Fifteenth Century, his popularity declined until Victorian times when Christmas became centred around children, and Father Christmas became a bringer of presents.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; 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line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Image found at:<a data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://abrempongradiogh.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sport-4.bmp" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: blue; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #275caa; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://abrempongradiogh.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sport-4.bmp</span></a>, accessed 7.10.2021.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I was inspired by the story of Arthur Wharton, the world's first black professional footballer and thought I would share the story for Black History Month.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.africancelebs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/image_update_6f18a4915f64bc6f_1338905264_9j-4aaqsk-300x168.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://www.africancelebs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/image_update_6f18a4915f64bc6f_1338905264_9j-4aaqsk-300x168.jpeg" width="300" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Arthur 'Kwame' Wharton was born in Jamestown, Ghana in 1865, in 1883 he moved to Darlington to train as a Missionary at Cleveland College. He became a professional footballer at the town's football club, playing mostly in goal but also played on the wing. Arthur became known as a goalkeeper with the 'prodigious punch'.He moved onto other clubs in his career including Preston North End, Rotherham & Newcastle & District which later became Newcastle United. In a match between Rotherham & Sheffield Wednesday, he was in goal, and to save a shot, he jumped to the crossbar catching the ball between his legs, causing the three opposition players to collide in a heap in the net.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Not only was Arthur adept on a football pitch, he was a professional athlete, cyclist, cricketer & rugby player. He was the first Official Fastest Man, running 100 yards in 10 seconds straight on 3rd July 1886 at Stamford Bridge, London. ...'He was called “invincible” by one 19th-century newspaper, and a man who, even in the ideological context of Victorian Britain, refused to accept racism lying down. While waiting for an athletics race in his early 20s, he overheard two other competitors calling him the n-word'. “Allow me to give you to understand,” he later recalled telling the pair, “I not only run but do a little boxing when required.” They piped down. He won the race. (Sourced from<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> The Independent Online</i>, found at: <a data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/arthur-wharton-darlington-first-black-professional-footballer-b1286187.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: blue; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #275caa; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/arthur-wharton-darlington-first-black-professional-footballer-b1286187.html</span></a> accessed 8.10.2021).</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0rL-gzu95pdKj-U2g4312-hhjLr-OeVdbjpD3DxMoZXjfww3SisrWpQxwXlpLizoIqygAMFOpvh7pMWG7MOyZV_88v2zXdDgWq4EBb4dGZvZpJBKrhVKpsNKUraybhJAQgKI2mdhW0KM/s828/Screenshot+2021-12-05+10.55.26+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="828" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0rL-gzu95pdKj-U2g4312-hhjLr-OeVdbjpD3DxMoZXjfww3SisrWpQxwXlpLizoIqygAMFOpvh7pMWG7MOyZV_88v2zXdDgWq4EBb4dGZvZpJBKrhVKpsNKUraybhJAQgKI2mdhW0KM/s320/Screenshot+2021-12-05+10.55.26+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After his sporting career he moved to Edlington, Doncaster in 1915 & worked as a haulage hand at Yorkshire Main Colliery. Arthur Wharton joined the Home Guard in The Great War |(date unknown). Sadly Arthur died penniless in 1930 in the Springwell Sanitarium, Balby and was buried in an unmarked grave at Edlington Cemetery. In May 1997, Arthur’s grave was given a headstone after a campaign by anti-racism organisation Football Unites Racism Divides for recognition of his achievements.</span></p><br /><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This may be considered a very short sporting career by today's standards, but there was no Sky TV, Premiership league or a million pound salary in those days. Football was in it's infancy and hard times were common, particularly in the economic climate of the late 20's and early 30's. Although Arthur Wharton died penniless, his story of overcoming racial barriers in sport have given us a an inspirational legacy that is everlasting, inspiring the likes of Marcus Rashford & Usain Bolt. Statues of Wharton are all over the world, from his native Ghana to the F.A Offices of London. My favourite Memorial to Arthur Wharton is in Darlington on the side of a house - a two story mural.</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sources</span></u></b><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are loads of websites with information on Arthur Wharton including these:</span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Arthur Wharton: The First Black Footballer</span></i><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, found at: <a data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/roots/2003/10/arthur_wharton.shtml" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: blue; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #275caa; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/roots/2003/10/arthur_wharton.shtml</span></a></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Arthur Wharton Foundation</span></i><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">:, found at: <a data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://arthurwhartonfoundation.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: blue; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #275caa; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://arthurwhartonfoundation.org/</span></a></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Great Lives</span></i><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" lang="EN" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Talk Featuring Viv Anderson talking about Arthur Wharton</i>, you can listen here: <a data-auth="NotApplicable" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sg13b" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: blue; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #275caa; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; 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So why do you not hear Christmas songs on the radio or see the videos on TV after Christmas? Ba Humbug is what I say!<br />
I will try and put Christmas themed content on the blog until January 5th. Merry Christmas Everyone!<br />
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https://youtu.be/A6iamZpEzMwOldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-39285935065294863882019-12-26T00:00:00.000+00:002019-12-26T09:40:56.084+00:00Why Do People Go Shopping On Boxing Day?<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Christmas. We all eat drink & are merry. Boxing Day on 26th December, is when all supermarkets & shops open & we pile in buying everything in sight. Why? Why can't retail workers have a day off like everyone else? Nowadays companies like Tesco do not pay a decent overtime rate, usually they demand you go in if you are on a flexible contract. Hardly any shoppers turn up at supermarkets anyway so what's the point? So please be like me and BOYCOTT SHOPPING ON SUNDAYS & BANK HOLIDAYS. Remember the people working probably aren't doing it out of choice & they would rather be home with their families.<br />
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NB found this petition link in a Birmingham Mail article to stop Boxing Day Opening, please sign it:<a href="https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/petition-stop-shops-opening-boxing-17288455">https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/petition-stop-shops-opening-boxing-17288455</a></div>
OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-68601481382750243042019-12-25T10:29:00.000+00:002019-12-27T13:15:20.456+00:00Merry Christmas<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span>OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-70647551774910910712019-11-19T13:13:00.000+00:002019-11-19T13:13:05.849+00:00The Olde Curiosity Blog: Letters To Father Christmas? Here Is The Official ...<br />
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Please have a look at a post from last year, get those letters out to Father Christmas and who knows what may be under the tree on Christmas morning?<br />
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<a href="https://oldecuriosity.blogspot.com/2018/11/letters-to-father-christmas-here-is.html?spref=bl">The Olde Curiosity Blog: Letters To Father Christmas? Here Is The Official ...</a>: Father Christmas, found at: https://thegraphicsfairy.com/100-free-christmas-images/ It's that time of year when children are ask...OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-56469953617316242312018-12-10T22:30:00.001+00:002021-12-05T19:49:24.260+00:00Christmas in #WW2, 1941
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aGK5EsGzKIg" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> <div><br /></div><div> Some more old footage from Youtube, this time Christmas in World War 2. Nowadays we have more than enough, Christmas has become overly commercialised with companies just out to make a profit. Due to hardship in wartime, the majority of people gave & received very little. How would people cope now, especially children if they received just a few small, often handmade presents? Not very well I'd think.<br />
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<br /></div>OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-89361566142643886432018-12-04T10:49:00.000+00:002018-12-04T10:49:24.712+00:00Edith Cavell #WW1 Heroic Nurse In The Great War <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Today is the birthday of the famous Nurse Edith Cavell, who was born on 4th December 1865, in Swardston, Norfolk. Her early years were idyllic, summers spent painting and drawing flowers in the summer and ice skating in the winter. She decided to become a nurse after successfully nursing her father through illness.She trained at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel 1896 , completing her training in 1898. Edith worked in Shoreditch, Kings Cross & Manchester before leaving Britain for Belgium. She was Matron of Belgium's first training hospital & school for nurses. </div>
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When war broke out Edith Cavell was in Norwich visiting family, instead of staying in Britain in relative safety, she felt it her duty to return to Brussels to treat the wounded. Often criticised for treating German & Austrian wounded, she also treated Allied soldiers in her care. helping over 200 soldiers escape to neutral Holland. Edith Cavell was shot on 12th October 1915 after being found guilty of treason, at a trial on the 7th October. Her death caused an outrage (although legal under international law), and her name was used as a recruitment symbol for the rest of the war.</div>
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More info here:<i> Imperial War Museum</i>, <a href="https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/who-was-edith-cavell">https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/who-was-edith-cavell</a><br />
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<i> Cavell Nurses Trust</i>, <a href="https://www.cavellnursestrust.org/edith-cavell">https://www.cavellnursestrust.org/edith-cavell</a><br />
<br />OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-33399096794967733682018-12-03T22:00:00.002+00:002021-12-05T11:09:30.923+00:00Boyes Anti Tank Rifle #WW2Stumbled across this excellent cartoon film, made with Disney, about the Boyes anti-tank rifle, used by Allied forces early in Second World War.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ellen played by Helen Fraser serving a posset in BBC adaptation <i>The Box Of Delights</i></td></tr>
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Re. <i>The Box Of Delights</i> I stumbled on someone's blogpost on how to make a posset. If you have trouble sleeping its worth a try <a href="http://hypnogoria.blogspot.com/2011/12/box-of-delights-how-to-make-posset.html">http://hypnogoria.blogspot.com/2011/12/box-of-delights-how-to-make-posset.html</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inspector in <i>The Box of Delights,</i> BBC, played by Charles Pemberton</td></tr>
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<i>But you young folks in this generation, you don't know what a posset is. Well a posset," said the Inspector, "is a jorum of hot milk; and in that hot milk, Master Kay, you put a hegg, and you put a spoonful of treacle, and you put a grating of nutmeg, and you stir 'em well up, and you get into bed and then you take 'em down hot. And a posset like that, taken overnight will make a new man of you!</i></div>
OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-30817193210896717102018-11-27T22:00:00.000+00:002018-11-28T08:46:51.488+00:00The Box Of Delights Was First Broadcast on BBC1 In 1984<div style="text-align: justify;">
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One of my favourite children's TV serials was first broadcast in November 1984 in 6 weekly parts. If you haven't read the book or seen the DVD, well, do both. It is completely enchanting and timeless.</div>
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The story centres about a boy called Kay, and a box that comes into his possession from a Punch & Judy man called Cole Hawlings. Cole gives the box to Kay for safekeeping, as there is a criminal gang after it headed by a nasty character called Abner Brown, who has a few magical powers up his sleeve. Why do they want the box? Possession of it could reveal the secret of immortality. Also there is a button on the box; turn it one way and it will send you fast, turn it the other way to go small. Kay and his cousins have many adventures with the box, the actors in this series are great and it is really Christmassy, the theme tune contains a few bars of <i>Noel. </i>It might seem a bit old fashioned now, but I love the way it used animation and live acting together. In Christmas 1984 I got the book by John Masefield and I still read the same copy around this time of year.</div>
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In 1984 it had a plug on <i>Blue Peter</i>, thanks to <i>Youtube</i> for this clip</div>
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There is even a fan's blog here which has tons of stuff about the Box of Delights, have a look here: <a href="http://theboxofdelight.blogspot.com/">http://theboxofdelight.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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Usually I'm not one for a word-for-word re-telling of a story, but I don't want this one to vanish into thin air like some good material often does on the old interweb. I found this on the <i>Outside </i>website and its an amazing story.<br />
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A little boy aged 6, playing in the woods with his sister, gets lost. At night. In near freezing conditions. He walked between 14 & 20 miles. Read it here.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">As a child, Cody Sheehy made headlines when he vanished into the freezing wilderness of Northeast Oregon, making it out safely after 18 hours of determined slogging. Retracing his steps 32 years later, Sheehy says that getting lost was one of the best life lessons he ever had.</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, serif;">Cody Sheehy is standing in a grassy meadow in northeast Oregon, surrounded by dark pines, spruce, and juniper trees. Cody, 39 years old and six foot two, grew up in a ranching family here in remote, rugged Wallowa County. When he was six years old—a mere 40 pounds and three and a half feet tall—he got lost in these woods while playing with his older sister during a springtime family picnic. Within a few hours, a search party began looking for him, crisscrossing the Blue Mountains on horseback all night as rain fell and temperatures hovered just above freezing. They never found him.</span></div>
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Instead, Cody, who is now a Tucson-based documentary filmmaker and sailor, found himself. Over 18 hours, he walked an estimated 14 to 20 miles out of the mountains and into the sparsely populated Wallowa Valley. During that journey he fell into a river, climbed a tree to escape two terrifying coyotes, and hid from a passing car because—as he recalls it—his reptile brain had taken over. He was cold and exhausted, and he developed acute tendinitis in his ankles that put him on crutches for a week. But he saved himself.</div>
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The story was national news in 1986, appearing in newspapers around the country, and made the Paul Harvey show, a folksy radio program with millions of listeners. People sent Cody letters of congratulation, money, and Bibles. Some letters were simply addressed to the Lost Boy of Wallowa. His grandfather, a cowboy poet, wrote a ballad about him.</div>
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When I came across old newspaper clippings about Cody’s experience, I was stunned that he had walked himself to safety. My empathy and curiosity went into overdrive when I realized that he’d gone missing at age six, the age my son, Nico, is now. I tracked Cody down to see if he could answer an ultimately unanswerable question: Did that dark, long, bone-breaking walk make him the person he is today or merely reveal the inner strength he’d had all along?</div>
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Cody and I retraced his journey through the woods this summer. We first drove the route with Everett Roberts, who was a member of the search party. Then Cody and I walked a key section with Nico. Although Cody hadn’t been back through those -particular meadows and forest roads since that night in 1986, he remembered the area in vivid detail and anticipated the location of forks in the road, creeks, and other landmarks.</div>
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“When I fell in, I felt really cold,” he says with faraway eyes as we stand at Howard Creek. “After that my feet started to hurt.”</div>
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At a white house sitting all alone in the woods, which he recalls as highly spooky, he’s surprised at how pleasant it looks and how close to the road it is. “I remember the driveway as way longer,” he says. He looks for a tree nearby that he climbed to escape the coyotes. In the dust of the road he draws a picture of it, one branch sticking out to the side, low down.</div>
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Cody believes that he was changed by getting lost. “Over the course of your life, you push through a lot of physical barriers,” he says. “As you grow older, your first coach helps you break through barriers, and maybe in the military you learn to push through barriers or maybe in your first hard job. As a little kid, I had this opportunity to be tested and learn that there really aren’t any barriers. I think a lot of people figure that out. They just might not figure it out at six.”</div>
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Even as a child, Cody was a good walker. The Sheehys were cattle ranchers, and he spent a lot of time outdoors. He had hiked in the Wallowa Mountains with his family. He’d even hiked in Inner Mongolia, where his father, Dennis, worked for the International Fund for Agricultural Development, advising local governments on how to manage their land to avoid overgrazing and soil erosion. Dennis is a Marine Corps Vietnam vet who, while bleeding from a gunshot wound, crawled through a rice paddy and dense jungle to rejoin his comrades, earning a Purple Heart. In Oregon, Dennis wore a cowboy hat and boots and was known as All-Day Dens for his superhuman ability to work. “My dad is the toughest person ever,” Cody says. “He never quits. If I ever encounter something where I am just about to quit, I always think of my dad. He is tough to live up to.”</div>
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Cody was the kind of kid who played out of sight of adults, who caught crayfish and climbed trees and had to wait for the rare occasion when his family rented a TV and a VCR to have any screen time. (When they did, they always watched <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Star Wars</em>.) He was also confident. So when he realized he was lost, he decided to follow a forest road and find his own way home.</div>
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I call search and rescue researcher Robert Koester, who wrote the book <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lost Person Behavior</em>. “I imagine that exploring self-confidence is what leads you to say, Here is a road. I am going to follow the road, and it is going to take me somewhere,” he says. Koester explains that the distance Cody covered at such a young age makes his story unusual. He should know. He maintains a database of about 150,000 cases of people who got lost. “Right off the bat, he’s a statistical outlier,” he says.</div>
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“He was uniquely qualified to do what he did,” says Roberts, a Marine Corps veteran who at the time of the search was operating a forklift at a local Wallowa County mill. Roberts also believes there may have been an unseen hand with the boy’s survival. “His dad, Dennis, survived Vietnam. Maybe it’s just fate.”</div>
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Dennis was pleased to hear about Cody’s gumption when he got a letter detailing the story. He was in Inner Mongolia at the time, so the frantic searching and worrying was left to Cody’s mother, Marcie. But Marcie never blamed herself for being a bad mom—which, let’s face it, would be the first accusation to pop up in online comments if this story happened today. She never felt guilty for letting Cody and his sister play on the other side of the meadow from where she and a friend sat around the fire. “It’s just normal,” she says now. “Kids go off and play.”</div>
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“In my entire childhood, I never felt it was anyone else’s fault,” Cody says. “I felt responsible.”</div>
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I wonder if part of the reason that Cody walked so far was that he saw getting lost as his mistake and therefore saw finding himself as his responsibility. “I do remember I was focused on doing something, taking action,” Cody says.</div>
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Apart from the psychological matter of feeling like it was their job to get found, would a modern six-year-old be physically and psychologically able to do what Cody did? “It is always dangerous to make sweeping statements,” Koester says. “There are probably six-year-olds who still spend all their time running around and playing outside and looking for crayfish in the creek. The child who just sits in front of a screen isn’t going to do as well.”</div>
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Cody got lost during the kind of game that fewer and fewer kids engage in these days: explorers. He and his nine-year-old sister, Carrie, picked a tree and walked off in a different direction, then returned and shared any interesting finds. The whole point of the game was to be briefly and excitingly alone in the woods. But Cody didn’t come back. As the search wore on, his sister became annoyed with him for getting lost and disrupting the family’s plans for the evening. She’s a rancher now, with kids of her own. I ask her if she was scared for her brother that day back in 1986. “No,” she says, matter-of-factly. “Kids don’t get scared.” But as a mother, the incident has haunted her, especially when each of her own kids approached age six.</div>
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Here’s how Cody got lost: Heading back to the base tree, he crossed a clearing, plunged through the trees, and expected to see the fire that marked their picnic spot. Instead he saw an unfamiliar meadow. He backtracked to the first clearing, then continued in the opposite direction. Again he found an unfamiliar meadow. No fire, no family. He circled awhile longer, leaving small footprints pointed every which way.</div>
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Patches of snow still lingered in the low spots of the land, and dried stalks of yarrow and teasel stood out beneath a white sky. It was 2:30 P.M. He was wearing sweatpants, gloves, discount sneakers, and a puffy coat with a hood. This was the moment that Cody made up his mind, the moment that separates his story from so many others. Standing in an unfamiliar meadow, surrounded by silent ponderosa pines, thoroughly lost, Cody saw a dirt road and figured it had to lead somewhere. He decided to pick a direction and follow the road until he got there. By late afternoon, when the search for him got started, he was already miles away.</div>
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“In retrospect, I liked having something to focus on rather than just being panicked and scared and vulnerable,” Cody says. “It’s a lot scarier to be sitting in the woods in the dark, lost, than it is to be in the woods at night but walking home.”</div>
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“Some kids will sit down and stay in one place,” says Koester. “If you are in the open woods and there is no landmark to follow, then the majority of six-year-old kids are going to circle.” So it wasn’t surprising that the search party concentrated its efforts around Deerings Meadow, where Cody was last seen. But lost people also latch on to linear features, like a road, Koester says.</div>
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Standing in the same meadow today, Cody says, “I should have sat down.”</div>
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He’s right. Search and rescue experts say that in most situations, it makes sense to stay in one place if you’re lost, especially if you’re a kid. Chances are good that you’re close to where your searchers will start looking, and chances are also good that people will start looking immediately. The National Association for Search and Rescue teaches kids to “hug a tree.” The program was established after a nine-year-old boy died of hypothermia while lost on Palomar Mountain in California in 1981.</div>
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Although he didn’t know to stay put, Cody was lucky that the path he chose led down. He lived on the floor of Wallowa Valley, with its clear Wallowa River and green landscape of cattle and hay, homeland of Chief Joseph’s band of Nez Perce, almost completely encircled by forested mountains, like a secret valley in a fairy tale or legend. If he had gotten lost in the steeper Eagle Cap Wilderness, across the valley, down might have been easier to find. Here in a rolling section of the Blue Mountains, though, undulating meadows and knolls spread out in every direction. He could only hope that the forest road was taking him out, not farther in.</div>
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By twilight, some six to nine miles from where he started, Cody came to a fork in the road. He chose the right-hand fork and walked down it awhile, then had second thoughts. But his small, increasingly sore feet refused to backtrack all the way, so he decided to ford Howard Creek to reach the left-hand road. But at the bottom of a steep gully he slipped.</div>
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“I remember thinking I was going to fall in and thinking I didn’t care. And I fell in,” Cody says. He soaked his legs and an arm, then hauled himself out of the water, scrambled up the bank, found the road, and kept walking. It was around this time, he recalls, that he realized he wasn’t going to get dinner and that his situation was serious.</div>
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Cody was worried about getting in trouble for getting lost. The sooner he got back to his family, the less trouble he would be in. So he ran, then walked, ran, then walked, then ran, like that.</div>
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By twilight, some six to nine miles from where he started, Cody came to a fork in the road. He chose the right-hand fork and walked down it awhile, then had second thoughts. But his small, increasingly sore feet refused to backtrack all the way, so he decided to ford Howard Creek to reach the left-hand road. But at the bottom of a steep gully he slipped.</div>
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“I remember thinking I was going to fall in and thinking I didn’t care. And I fell in,” Cody says. He soaked his legs and an arm, then hauled himself out of the water, scrambled up the bank, found the road, and kept walking. It was around this time, he recalls, that he realized he wasn’t going to get dinner and that his situation was serious.</div>
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Cody was worried about getting in trouble for getting lost. The sooner he got back to his family, the less trouble he would be in. So he ran, then walked, ran, then walked, then ran, like that.</div>
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At some point, Cody’s thinking changed, he says. He developed tunnel vision. He heard a buzzing in his ears. “Any noise, any sound, I hid,” he says. He hid from engine noise, maybe more than once, potentially evading his would-be rescuers. He just had to keep going. He figured that if he could walk to his house, down in the valley, and sneak into his bed before the sun rose, he could roll out of bed in time for breakfast and everything would magically be OK. “I had a singular mission,” he says.</div>
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Later, as his stomach began to gnaw at him, he revised his plan, adding a stop at his grandfather Tom’s place. He imagined that the old cowboy would be awake and reading in his chair. He would give Cody grapes. And then Cody would walk the five or so additional miles to his own home and slip into bed.</div>
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At 7:52, the sun set completely, and the stars began to appear. Cody kept walking. He wanted to be an astronaut when he grew up, so he watched the sky, distracting himself from the pain in his feet by looking for Halley’s Comet, which was visiting the solar system that year. From Wallowa County on April 27, the comet would have been just under the horizon.</div>
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By now there were dozens of people out searching for him, some in trucks, at least half a dozen on horseback, including the local Catholic priest, Father Ray Hopp. Marcie was driving forest roads with Tom, crying and praying. With temperatures so low, searchers worried about Cody becoming hypothermic. But they underestimated how far he could travel in the time he’d been lost. Their circle was too small.</div>
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Cody kept moving. He walked another six and a half miles from the creek, up a steep hillside and through dark stands of firs and pines. He came to an abandoned white house, which looked eerie in the starlight. (Now it has been fixed up as someone’s country place and does not look spooky.) There was no moon yet.</div>
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It was here he saw the two coyotes. Cody stopped to watch them. They walked toward him, and Cody sprinted away, fearing that they were following him. These days there are wolves in Wallowa County, but in the eighties coyotes were the top dogs and common. Usually, they give people a wide berth, but they have been known to attack children.</div>
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Terrified, Cody climbed into a tree, probably a juniper, and wedged himself between the trunk and a sturdy branch. There in the dark, pressed up against the pitchy gin smell of the bark, he dozed. At 12:41 A.M. on Monday, April 28, 1986, the moon rose. It was just three days past full, so it cast a bright silvery light over the pines, the junipers, and a few wizened apple trees from an old orchard.</div>
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“It was really cold in that tree,” Cody remembers. “It got so cold I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t stay in the tree, so I decided to keep walking.” He had traveled 12 to 15 miles by now. His feet hurt. The forest opened up beyond the house, and Cody walked through a series of grassy meadows, pale and silent. “I remember continual disappointment that it was farther each time I came to a new meadow,” Cody says. “I spent a lot of time looking at my feet.”</div>
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The sun rose at 5:41, and around that time, Cody came to the edge of the plateau he’d been walking on, at about 3,700 feet of elevation. Looking into the valley, almost 1,000 feet down and two more miles by road, he saw houses, roads, pastures, and distant livestock. But it wasn’t a part of Wallowa he recognized. His feet were in agony. I’ve got to get down there, he remembers thinking.</div>
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Cody is helping my son, Nico, dismount from a pine tree he has climbed. We are walking the part of his journey between the creek and the white house. Looking at Nico’s tiny frame, his spaghetti legs, his little feet, it’s as if Cody were alarmed for his childhood self.</div>
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I tell Nico he can ask Cody any question he wants. “OK,” says Nico. “What is the largest land mammal?” Later he asks Cody something a bit more germane. “When you were lost, did you climb up a tree to see where you were?” Cody looks up, trying to remember. “I don’t know why I wouldn’t have. Maybe I did.”</div>
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Nico tries to be tough, but after a few miles he starts casually asking how much longer we have to go. In the dust of the road, we find coyote tracks.</div>
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While we walk, Cody catches us up on his life since 1986. Maybe because he found himself, the experience made him bolder, not more wary, he says. “I’ve never considered myself a very brave person, but I have always climbed trees to the very top.”</div>
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His mother agrees. “He is a risk-taker,” Marcie says. In middle school, he climbed to the top of a high-voltage transmission tower near his house because it was tall, scary, and had a ladder, and he wanted to feel the electricity buzzing in his body.</div>
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Cody eventually left Wallowa to attend college at Oregon State and then Portland State. To pay for it, he spent summers building trails in the Eagle Cap Wilderness, about 14 miles as the crow flies from where he’d been lost. He and his coworkers would ride into the hills on horseback, carrying their tools on pack mules. They’d work all day and sleep in the mountains for ten days at a stretch.</div>
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Cody comes from a military family, but he decided that wasn’t for him. During college he bought a beat-up sailboat on a whim, a 27-footer moored in a Portland marina on the Columbia River. After living on it for a while, he figured he’d give skippering a try. He got advice from his neighboring boat owners, taught himself the basics, then decided to sail south. He was mostly alone, staying awake for 24 hours, glued to the tiller. After nearly getting run over by a container ship in San Francisco Bay, he headed toward Monterey, where he ran out of money.</div>
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In 2008, Cody scored a broken-down 54-foot sailboat for spare change from a Bay Area techie who was selling off his pleasure craft during the financial crash. He sailed that boat all the way to Nicaragua with his wife—a Finnish geographical information scientist named Jatta, who he married in 2011—and their two dogs, spending months free and mobile.</div>
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Cody bailed out of a career in engineering when film called to him. As with sailing, he learned in his own way, through experimentation and mentorship rather than formal training. Today, Cody works as a producer for the University of Arizona and runs two companies. One, Rhumbline Media, makes documentary films; the other, Filmstacker, is working on an app that allows groups of creators to combine short clips into finished movies. Cody puts in long hours every week on these endeavors, and he misses the thrill of the sailing life. “It’s like you’re Han Solo and you have your own little spaceship,” he says. “You can get to the most rugged, remote wilderness, 100 miles from the closest village, or have an island all to yourself.”</div>
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He’s worried about getting too comfortable, settling into a routine, though he still sails off the coast of Mexico for a month every year. Before, when he and Jatta were on the water for months at a time, he felt “totally alive,” he says. “I am trying to get back to that feeling. I think I still can. I don’t think I’ve screwed it up yet.”</div>
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Cody’s persistence hasn’t changed since he was six. Even after walking down that steep mountain road and reaching town, he planned to keep going on his own and walk all the way home. Eventually, a teenager waiting for the bus talked him into accepting help by promising him cookies. They knocked on the door of an older lady, who called the sheriff. A lawman picked Cody up. When he got home, his sister Carrie tried to take off his shoes, and he screamed in pain. As soon as his legs and feet healed, he was back out playing in the woods.Cody and his wife are thinking of having some kids of their own, even though Cody admits to still feeling like a big kid himself. “I think I would be a good dad,” he says. “I aspire to be a parent who lets my kid run around a ton. I would love if my kid had all the crazy experiences I had growing up and survived them. But it’s pretty scary to think about.”</div>
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As dusk settles in, Cody, Nico, and I set up camp on top of a hill at the edge of the plateau where Cody would have seen the lights of the valley glimmering in the dawn. Nico finds some elk teeth and then falls asleep in our tent while Cody and I have a beer. Nighthawks begin diving so steeply that air roars through their primary feathers, filling the night with sound. Like he has since he was six, Cody skips a tent and sleeps under the stars.</div>
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When Cody bought his current boat, it was named <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Endymion,</em> after a handsome shepherd from Greek mythology who was loved by the goddess of the moon. Perhaps wanting to cast aside associations with livestock and herding that smacked of Wallowa, Cody changed the name. But he says it’s bad luck to rechristen a boat “unless it has been so significantly altered that Poseidon cannot recognize it,” and he found out that there was likely a coin stamped endymion under the mast. So he changed the name back. Maybe the experience of getting lost is like a coin under Cody’s mast, something that creates a continuous identity between his childhood self and his adult self. Either way, it taught him a lesson he’s never forgotten. It’s a lesson about “persistence and what it can unlock,” he says. “I am the kind of person that will fight to the very end.”</div>
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The next morning, it’s time to pack up our tent and head home. Nico looks dubiously at the expanse of cheatgrass ahead of us. He spent a lot of the previous day picking the poky seeds out of his socks. Cody swoops him up, adding 40 pounds to the weight of his pack, and carries Nico down the hill.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Emma Marris (@emma_marris) wrote about a wolf named OR-4 for Outside Online in October 2017. She is the author of </em>Rambunctious Garden.</div>
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Access full article here: <a href="https://www.outsideonline.com/2365666/boy-lost-woods-oregon">https://www.outsideonline.com/2365666/boy-lost-woods-oregon</a>, written by Emma Marris</div>
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Happy Thanksgiving to friends over the water. Since 1621 people of the United States have been celebrating their first harvest, have a good one folks :-)OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-82683589210227775632018-11-21T22:00:00.000+00:002018-11-21T22:00:07.148+00:00Letters To Father Christmas? Here Is The Official Address For Him<div>
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OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-25566660238509295802018-11-20T22:00:00.000+00:002018-11-20T22:00:00.306+00:00Rover Scouting<br />
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Rover Scouting began in August 1918 when it was mentioned in The Scouting Gazette by Baden Powell, and was properly established by November 1919. Originally catering for older boys, the scheme became defunct in the UK with the Scout Organisation, but carried on with others, such as BP Scouts, and British Boy Scouts. There are also plenty of independent Rover Crews which have no upper age limit, and are not affiliated to the World Scout Organisation or BP Scouts etc.<br />
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Earlier this year, Richard, a good friend of mine asked me if I would be interested in joining a Rover Crew. 'Rovers?', I said, 'Are they part of BP Scouts?'. 'No', he replied. They were a completely independent unit, that did not belong to any Scout organisation. Also, anyone over the age of 18 can join. There is no upper age limit. Traditional Scouting activities are undertaken, camping, walking, parades on Remembrance Sunday & St George's Day, service in the local community etc. You can even do activity badges, handyman, rambler, </div>
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So anyway, I agreed, and with David from Durham we met at the end of August, and had a nice walk in inclement weather to the John Bunting Chapel in the North York Moors. (<b>Click on the link</b>)<a href="http://www.johnbunting.co.uk/memorial.html">John Bunting Chapel</a> North Riding Rover Crew (Captain Allmand's Own) was born. Captain Allmand was a Rover Scout and Scout Master at Ampleforth, N.Yks before he left to join the army in WW2. Tragically he was killed in the Far East, an action in which he earned the VC, the only Rover from North Yorkshire known to have won the VC in that war. More info here: <a href="http://www.6thgurkhas.org/website/regiment-victoria-crosses/captain-michael-allmand">http://www.6thgurkhas.org/website/regiment-victoria-crosses/captain-michael-allmand</a> </div>
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It's early days, we are still few in number but we can only grow. We took part in the Pickering WW2 weekend parade with other independent units, Thane Rovers and British Boy Scouts. Richard had an article published in <i>Best of British </i>magazine which has produced some interest. Hopefully next year my health will have improved somewhat to get some more walking in.<br />
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Anyone from North Yorkshire interested in joining North Riding Rovers please contact: jonathansevers@hotmail.com, or richardbowman1@live.co.uk. Richard has a blog with loads of Scouting stuff here: <a href="http://1stvofpscoutarchive.blogspot.com/">http://1stvofpscoutarchive.blogspot.com/</a></div>
OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-86470928477637424012018-11-20T11:26:00.001+00:002018-11-20T11:26:13.259+00:00Carrying Fire: September 3, 1917-2017This date, September 3, 201...<a href="https://carryingfire.blogspot.com/2017/09/september-3-1917-2017-this-date.html?spref=bl">Carrying Fire: September 3, 1917-2017<br />
This date, September 3, 201...</a>: September 3, 1917-2017 This date, September 3, 2017, marks the 100th birthday of my father, B-17 pilot Lt. Donald R. Christensen. ...OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-83073694488591187402018-11-20T11:10:00.001+00:002018-11-20T11:15:47.068+00:00Carrying Fire: Media coverage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://carryingfire.blogspot.com/2018/11/media-coverage.html?spref=bl">Carrying Fire: Media coverage</a>: My father's story has been carried in Utah's The Deseret News as well as KSL News Radio .OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-34952098172301655542018-11-20T11:06:00.000+00:002018-11-20T11:06:21.919+00:00There Is FAR Too Much Sensationalist News Nowadays<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: justify;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Floods In Austria, courtesy of <i>Daily Telegraph</i></td></tr>
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Sensationalist news. It's everywhere. TV, radio, newspapers, internet. The BBC is chockablock with it. Most of us aren't interested in Donald Trump. Quite frankly we're bored with his tweets, and bored hearing his voice. I am sure most people would like to hear more important news. </div>
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I was in a local shop last week and the lady who served me got talking, her family lives in Austria, and Southern Austria has been devastated by floods in August. <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-133199/82-die-Europes-worst-floods-decades.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-133199/82-die-Europes-worst-floods-decades.html</a></div>
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Austria wasn't the only country hit, Russia, Czech Republic, Croatia and China were all hit leaving 82 dead. The aftermath of these floods is still serious, forests swept away and massive mudslides, thousands of homes without electricity and homes destroyed. Some come on mainstream media, lets hear some more news that affects ordinary people please.</div>
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Tomorrow is November 11th 2018. 100 years since the killing stopped on the Western Front. On a more positive note it is also 100 years since Baden Powell started the Rover Scout movement. I am proud to be part of a new Rover Scout Unit, North Riding Rover Crew, Captain Allmand's Own. Tomorrow, please attend your local Remembrance Service, take part in the silence and remember those who gave their tomorrow for our today. Including Captain Michael Allmand, VC.</div>
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<i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old,<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;" />Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;" />At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,<br style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;" />We will remember them."</span></i><br />
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<br />OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-23619254294566748372018-09-10T22:10:00.000+01:002018-09-10T22:10:45.972+01:00<img alt="Image result for i'm still here" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLSDFVap7PsAqQ3hKNu1kMwj3fJ4aWhQ7tuYXUA4a0kL_02n2O4vrq0o-Ev2F7fhJGm4YEZVIDtFx7izgw9R_6T2tsiOWuw0BKWtLswBb0z6LbxgES6-oTUz_b2bXJI7-X17kkaS_zIjY/s1600/keep-calm-i-m-still-here-4.png" /><br />
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I am guilty of not blogging for ages. There has been a fair bit of change in life recently, an operation followed by 4 months off work, am still recovering, so hence, no blogging. Watch this space, there will be weekly posts from now until Christmas.OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-81495457266110539892018-04-09T14:45:00.000+01:002018-04-09T22:06:31.442+01:00Blame It On Brexit<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I know I haven't written here for ages, since 2017, nevermind. I am pleased to see that people still visit this blog, thanks it's great people find it useful as a reference source.</div>
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Brexit. Like it or loathe it there's no escaping it. What annoys me about the media and also all the remoaners who didn't like the outcome of the vote back in 2016 is that they have put Brexit on the same level as Witch hunting in the Seventeenth Century. What the hell are you on about? I hear you ask. Think about it. For example you are a dairy farmer, and suddenly one of your cows gives birth to a three headed calf. Your cockerel stops crowing on a morning. Great Aunt Bertha didn't win on the Premium bonds. You get where I'm going with this? Brexit seems to be the scapegoat for every disaster, price rise and trivial obstruction in life. In reality, we are still part of the E.U, and major companies have not been scared by the thought of Great Britain & Northern Ireland being independent from foreign bureaucratic control from Brussels. Nissan, BMW and Vauxhall have all recently gone public with huge investment plans for expansion and long term investment in British factories. Why can't other companies follow suit instead of panicking, some declaring they are pullng out of Britain altogether? Companies such as Nissan & BMW realise that Britain will still play a huge part in the world's economy, even after Brexit.</div>
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Anyway, Please keep checking in every week to Olde Curiosity Blog, this year I am writing about one of my passions, birds.</div>
OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-72391518103442127962017-11-19T21:54:00.000+00:002017-11-19T21:54:00.856+00:00#WW1 Tanks - A British InventionJust watching Guy Martin on Channel 4, that man is so enthusiastic about anything, in this programme he is busy making a replica tank. The tank as we know it today is a British invention.<br />
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<br />Tanks were first used by the British & Canadian army in September 1916 at the Battle of Flers Courcelette where most of them broke down, but later versions proved more successful. <a href="http://www.canadianmilitaryhistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2-McEwen-Tanks-at-Courcelette.pdf">http://www.canadianmilitaryhistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2-McEwen-Tanks-at-Courcelette.pdf</a><br /><br />OldeCuriosityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10610541664418377583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9164209189599896495.post-61029536444967693232017-11-14T20:21:00.002+00:002017-11-14T20:21:56.759+00:00Britain's National Anthem - Or is it the English National Anthem?I read in one of the papers last week that Britain's national anthem had a line about crushing rebellious Scots. I thought it would not be included nowadays but it appears it still is. There is no wonder the Scottish sing 'Flower of Scotland' and not the national anthem at big events. A national anthem should not be insulting to a country's inhabitants.<br />
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<i style="text-align: -webkit-center;">first publicly performed in London, 1745</i><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"></span><br />
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<tr><td nowrap="" valign="top">1. God save our gracious Queen,<br />Long live our noble Queen,<br />God save the Queen!<br />Send her victorious,<br />Happy and glorious,<br />Long to reign over us;<br />God save the Queen!<br /><br />2. O Lord our God arise,<br />Scatter her enemies<br />And make them fall;<br />Confound their politics,<br />Frustrate their knavish tricks,<br />On Thee our hopes we fix,<br />God save us all!<br /><br />3. Thy choicest gifts in store<br />On her be pleased to pour;<br />Long may she reign;<br />May she defend our laws,<br />And ever give us cause<br />To sing with heart and voice,<br />God save the Queen!</td><td width="50"> </td><td nowrap="" valign="top">4. Not in this land alone,<br />But be God's mercies known,<br />From shore to shore!<br />Lord make the nations see,<br />That men should brothers be,<br />And form one family,<br />The wide world over.<br /><br />5. From every latent foe,<br />From the assassins blow,<br />God save the Queen!<br />O'er her thine arm extend,<br />For Britain's sake defend,<br />Our mother, prince, and friend,<br />God save the Queen!<br /><br />6. Lord grant that Marshal Wade<br />May by thy mighty aid<br />Victory bring.<br />May he sedition hush,<br />And like a torrent rush,<br />Rebellious Scots to crush.<br />God save the King!<br /><br />Found at <a href="http://ingeb.org/songs/godsaveo.html">http://ingeb.org/songs/godsaveo.html</a></td></tr>
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Personally I think we should have Rule Britannia as a national anthem. It is grander, very patriotic and actually contains the words Great Britain. It is about our country, not a person. </div>
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<b><span style="color: #00509f;">Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!<br />Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.<br /><br />When Britain first, at heaven's command,<br />Arose from out the azure main,<br />This was the charter of the land,<br />And Guardian Angels sang this strain:<br /><br />(Chorus)<br /><br />The nations not so blest as thee<br />Must, in their turn, to tyrants fall,<br />While thou shalt flourish great and free:<br />The dread and envy of them all.<br /><br />(Chorus)<br /><br />Still more majestic shalt thou rise,<br />More dreadful from each foreign stroke,<br />As the loud blast that tears the skies<br />Serves but to root thy native oak.<br /><br />(Chorus)<br /><br />Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame;<br />All their attempts to bend thee down<br />Will but arouse thy generous flame,<br />But work their woe and thy renown.<br /><br />(Chorus)<br /><br />To thee belongs the rural reign;<br />Thy cities shall with commerce shine;<br />All thine shall be the subject main,<br />And every shore it circles, thine.<br /><br />(Chorus)<br /><br />The Muses, still with freedom found,<br />Shall to thy happy coasts repair.<br />Blest isle! with matchless beauty crowned,<br />And manly hearts to guard the fair.<br /><br />(Chorus)<br />Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!<br />Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00509f;">Found at:<a href="https://www.songandpraise.org/rule-brittania-lyrics.htm">https://www.songandpraise.org/rule-brittania-lyrics.htm</a></span></b></div>
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