I have been laid low of late.



In March, we made a lovely trip to Scotland to visit my family and then on to fantastic Northumberland for a special birthday - my father in law John's 91st. We enjoyed a quiet celebration as he was not in the best of health and promised him that we would return in October for another visit. Alas, it was not to be. John died 2 weeks after we left him so then we made another, much sadder sojourn to our homeland. I miss John very much and for me the trips to beautiful Northumberland will never be the same.

MMs letzter Geburtstag.

_{- 07. März 2011 -}

The women - their duty is to have a boy. If not, you are useless.
"I am alive here today, because my mother decided not to kill me."

The photographer took her picture. She remembers her anger. The man was a stranger. She had never been photographed before. Until they met again 17 years later, she had not been photographed since.



The photographer remembers the moment too. The light was soft. The refugee camp in Pakistan was a sea of tents. Inside the school tent he noticed her first. Sensing her shyness, he approached her last. She told him he could take her picture. "I didn't think the photograph of the girl would be different from anything else I shot that day," he recalls of that morning in 1984 spent documenting the ordeal of Afghanistan's refugees.



Names have power, so let us speak of hers. Her name is Sharbat Gula, and she is Pashtun, that most warlike of Afghan tribes. It is said of the Pashtun that they are only at peace when they are at war, and her eyes—then and now—burn with ferocity. She is 28, perhaps 29, or even 30. No one, not even she, knows for sure. Stories shift like sand in a place where no records exist.

Quelle: [National Geographic] - Doku: [Finding the Afghan Girl]

... to aide in simple acts of vandalism:

robo-rainbow from mudlevel on Vimeo.

via [Spreeblick]

Erdbeeren im Dezember?
HA!



WeWeEff-Ratgeber Schweiz als App fürs iPhone.

Relativ einfach gemacht, aber ganz nützlich. Und kostenlos zudem.

Gibt ziemlich zuverlässig für jeden einzelnen Monat an, wann welche Früchte und welches Gemüse eingekauft werden sollten.
Welche Fische unbedenklich verzehrt werden können, und welche auf dem Index stehen.

Well - it's obviously a set-up; coached by grown-ups.
BUT!
It's funny.
This is the story: An 8-year old irish girl doesn't like her school, and she wants it demolished - so she calls a local demolition firm to see if they could get her off school... [Permanently!]
Enjoy!

... auf morgen.