tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52057540218115586382024-03-13T09:11:03.142-07:00TrubesGeneral interests and daily doings !Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-13230155670829220432017-07-03T07:36:00.001-07:002017-07-08T09:24:33.015-07:00Random Z's<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="color: blue;">The </span><span style="color: magenta;">Zebra </span><span style="color: blue;">is an unusual beast, neither donkey nor horse with defining black and white stripes.</span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;">Z was a Zebra, </span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: blue;"> All striped black and white; </span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: blue;"> You might ride on his back,</span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: blue;"> Pretty striped </span><span style="color: magenta;">Zebra.</span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: lime;">Zip</span><span style="color: blue;">-a-dee-do-dah, </span><span style="color: lime;">Zip</span><span style="color: blue;">-a-dee-ay,</span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: blue;"> Plenty of sunshine heading my way,</span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Uncle Remus sang this joyful song in the animated movie by Walt Disney called Song of the South, He was a shy, kindly old freeman of South African American origin. He used to serve as a story teller, passing on old folk tales to children gathered around him.</span></i></h3>
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As many of myAbcw friends may have noticed that I have been unable to contribute of late, as my husband has had a quadruple by pass (Heart surgery), also going on permanent kidney dialysis.</h3>
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He is so much better now and I am so grateful for all the kind wishes and prayers for his recovery.<i><span style="color: blue;"> </span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Sadly we come to the end of the current series of ABCW and my sincere thanks to Denise Roger and Leslie, in their stalwart administration, also the steady team of helpers.</span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;"> Now to a new era withMelody and team. Good luck to everyone old and hopefully many new team members to join in this fun meme.</span></i></h3>
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<i style="font-size: 17.6px;">My best wishes go to Melody who is taking over as our new administrator and the new team of assistants and helpers... Good luck to you all and I look forward to joining our new <span style="color: magenta;">Abcw meme.</span></i></h3>
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-41504182620399742132017-05-16T05:32:00.000-07:002017-05-16T05:32:46.671-07:00Shaky and Silver Linings.<h3>
<span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="color: purple;">The time that we have been dreading, is upon us: Today my husband is going into hospital to have his triple by-pass(heart). The operation is scheduled for Wednesday am. He is the only patient in theatre that day so hopefully he will get star treatment . </span></i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="color: purple;">Also a team of dialysis nurses will be looking after him keeping his kidneys functioning correctly. We are so fortunate in this country to have such a wonderful health service, even though a lot of people complain about it, usually those that haven't contributed to it. Needless to say I'm rather </span><span style="color: magenta;">Shaky, </span><span style="color: purple;">whilst himself still carries on in his usual cheery and </span><span style="color: magenta;">Stoic </span><span style="color: purple;">manner.</span></i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>Of course I have been beset by the usual platitudes, such as, 'Don't worry they perform these operations every day '(not on my husband they don't, I thought, most uncharitably) and 'My uncle had that operation when he was 86 and he's still with us now, he's 92 And he's got all his own teeth!</i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="color: blue;"><br />When I used to </span><span style="color: magenta;">'Strut my Stuff </span><span style="color: magenta;">'</span><span style="color: blue;">in Pantomime, I often played the part of Principal Boy, part of the role involved chasing giants in</span><span style="color: #741b47;">'Jack and the Beanstalk' </span><span style="color: blue;">or looking for a princess in </span><span style="color: #741b47;">'Cinderella'.</span><span style="color: blue;">The role required me to sing various popular songs and one I particularly liked was '</span><span style="color: #4c1130;">Look for the </span><span style="color: magenta;">Silver </span><span style="color: blue;">Lining', this was a delightful song because it offered </span><span style="color: #4c1130;">optimism and hope </span><span style="color: blue;">I was just about 19 years of age I was young,</span></i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="color: blue;"> A while ago I wrote about the most wonderful holiday in Austria. The beautiful cloud formation over the mountains certainly had many '</span><span style="color: magenta;">Silver Linings</span><span style="color: blue;">'. (The picture above was a view we encountered on a trip over the Bremmer Pass, travelling from Austria to the Northern Italy mountains called The Dolomites).</span></i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="color: blue;">Look for the </span><span style="color: magenta;">Silver Lining </span><span style="color: purple;">when'ere a cloud appears in the sky. </span></i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="color: purple;">Remember somewhere the </span><span style="color: magenta;">Sun is Shining</span></i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="color: magenta;"> So </span><span style="color: purple;">a</span><span style="color: purple;">lways look for the</span><span style="color: magenta;"> Silver Lining </span></i></span></h3>
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<i>Time to <span style="color: magenta;">Sign off </span>now and my <span style="color: magenta;">Sincere </span>thanks to the <span style="color: magenta;">Sensational </span>Denise for devising Abcw all those years ago. I thank Roger and Leslie who have worked <span style="color: magenta;">Steadily </span>to <span style="color: magenta;">Showcase </span>all the wonderful contributions of Abcw bloggers. Not forgetting the team of assistants who help with the time consuming job of visiting allotted memes.</i></h3>
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-65605183937057438262017-05-09T06:36:00.001-07:002017-05-09T06:36:33.887-07:00R stands for Robbie Burns.<h3>
<i><span style="color: purple;">Robert Burns </span><span style="color: blue;">was a world </span><span style="color: magenta;">reknown </span><span style="color: blue;">poet, writer and lyricist. he was born in Scotland and wrote many splendid poems about his beloved Scotland. His words were often </span><span style="color: magenta;">Romantic </span><span style="color: blue;">and were directed to his many loves. From reading about his life it seemed he fathered many children.</span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">And I will love you still , my dear </span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Till all the seas gang dry my dear</span></i></h3>
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<i>I am dedicating the lovely ballad to my darling husband Ian . He has recently undergone kidney dialysis and is now preparing for open heart surgery, this will take place on Wednesday 17th of May, needless to say the <span style="color: magenta;">Realisation </span>of what is about to happen envelopes us both...countdown time....I'm wishing my life away, just wishing and hoping for it all to be over and for him to be fit and well again. His surgeon assures us he'll be a new man again.</i></h3>
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-38457128317333156202017-05-02T10:41:00.000-07:002017-05-03T02:16:54.266-07:00Q stands for Quiet<h4>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Well ! I do now but going back several decades that just wasn't the case, I didn't know what <span style="color: magenta;">'QUIET' </span>was. I believe i was the noisiest girl in the school and was always getting scolded for talking in class when I should be <span style="color: magenta;">QUIET ! </span></span></h4>
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When I was in my second year in the Infants in Broad Square School I looked froward to friday afternoons because we had '<span style="color: magenta; text-align: center;">Quiet </span><span style="text-align: center;">Time' in the school library, we could read to our 'hearts content' then pick two books to take home to read to our parents. Also incorporated in our '<span style="color: magenta;">Quiet time'</span>we wer given a list ofspelling competition and my prize was.... </span></h4>
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<span style="text-align: center;">After Miss Nevesen taught me how to keep <span style="color: magenta;">'Quiet' </span>I was rewarded by her asking me to read a text from my favourite book, which was <span style="color: #351c75;">Heidi by Johanna Spyri.</span></span></h4>
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-90733227818572233912017-04-24T08:09:00.001-07:002017-04-25T08:14:44.565-07:00P for Poetry Phenomenal and Pretty.<h4>
<i><span style="color: blue;">After having written about many several different topics on 'Abcw', I seldom miss an opportunity to write about one of my favourite subjects .....</span><span style="color: magenta;">'Poetry' or Poets.</span></i></h4>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;"></span><span style="color: blue;">It is impossible to pick favourites because there are are so many. </span></i></h4>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">I do enjoy reading humorous </span><span style="color: magenta;">Prose </span><span style="color: blue;">and limerics, but then, who could resist 'The Rhyme of The Ancient Mariner' by Coleridge or </span></i></h4>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">The Village Blacksmith by Longfellow. </span></i></h4>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Maya Angelou really stirred something within me when I first read 'Incredible Woman'.</span></i></h4>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="color: magenta;">Phenomenal </span><span style="color: blue;">Woman.</span></i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i> (The first verse, to read more please log into The Poetry Foundation). </i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="color: magenta;">Pretty </span><span style="color: blue;">women wonder where my secret lies, </span></i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size </i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies,</i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>It's in the reach of my arms. </i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>The span of my hips. </i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>The stride of my step.</i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i> I'm a woman</i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: magenta;">Phenomenally,</span></i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i><span style="color: magenta;">Phenomenal </span><span style="color: blue;">woman, </span></i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>That's me.</i></span></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #351c75;">Now for some jocularity, this is the sort of </span><span style="color: magenta;">Prose </span><span style="color: #351c75;">that I like to </span><span style="color: #351c75;">read to the grandchildren on a gloomy day!</span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;">P for the Porcupine. </span><span style="color: #351c75;">(</span><span style="color: #351c75;">by Ogden Nash)</span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #351c75;">Any hound a </span><span style="color: magenta;">Porcupine </span><span style="color: #351c75;">nudges </span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #351c75;">The owl and the </span><span style="color: magenta;">Pussy C</span><span style="color: #351c75;">at went to sea </span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #351c75;"> The owl looked up to the stars above , And sang to a small guitar 'O lovely </span><span style="color: magenta;">Pussy </span><span style="color: #351c75;"> O </span><span style="color: magenta;">Pussy </span><span style="color: #351c75;">my love What a beautiful </span><span style="color: magenta;">Pussy </span><span style="color: #351c75;">you are,</span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #351c75;"> You are,</span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #351c75;"> You are! </span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #351c75;">What a beautiful </span><span style="color: magenta;">Pussy </span><span style="color: #351c75;">you are. </span></i></h3>
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-50181575484251524222017-04-19T09:57:00.000-07:002017-04-19T09:57:59.796-07:00O for Oh Dear !.. Whatever next ?<h4>
<span style="color: purple;">I've always been a firm believer in taking whatever life throws at me 'straight on the chin' in other words, don't whinge just get on with it. last week we had a most challenging week, in fact it was so awful I seriously considered sitting in the corner of a darkened room and screaming my head off. Fortunately, common sense prevailed, and instead of having a total melt down, I sat quietly in my favourite reclining chair, played some soothing music then poured myself a brandy on ice with soda water.</span></h4>
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-3588731592898737952017-04-11T09:24:00.001-07:002017-04-11T09:38:08.349-07:00N for Nomads,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="color: blue;">I imagined it to be very dry and barren but it was quite different the scenery was breathtaking, As we turned to land, we could see the turquiose blue waters of the Aegean sea on one side and people in bizzare clothes working on the mountainside. These people turned out to be </span><span style="color: magenta;">Nomads. </span><span style="color: blue;">I must confess, I did hold my breath at that stage we seemed rather too close to the mountains for comfort! </span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;">NOMADIC </span><span style="color: #0c343d;"> Herdsman bringing home supper to go with the flat bread!</span></i></h3>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><i>The finest beach in Turkey which lies further down the coast still surrounded by the beautiful Taurus Mountains. The contrast between Izmir and Olu Deniz couldn't be so different but still in the same region of my favourite country in Asia Minor...Turkey</i></span></h3>
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-12518664550689246112017-04-04T09:20:00.002-07:002017-04-04T09:58:49.744-07:00M for Merriment.<h4>
<i><span style="color: #444444;">As a</span> <span style="color: #444444;">natural optimist I always try to look on the bright side of life. </span> <span style="color: magenta;">MERRIMENT</span><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">on a daily basis can wash the blues away. For that reason I have a fine collection of humorous poetry, limerics, one-liners, and many stories of silliness. When I was younger and carefree I was always ready to party with friends, visit the theatre take part in pantomimes and plays. We would regularly have friends, neighbours and family around for a social 'get together' which would include </span><span style="color: magenta;">MERRIMENT</span><span style="color: #351c75;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">by the bucketful, and not forgetting, the food.</span></i></h4>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><br /><span style="color: #444444;">After the food out would come the guitars, tambourines, Irish drums, violin and so on. All jolly good fun ! </span></i></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="color: #444444;">The </span><span style="color: blue;">Tagine,</span><span style="color: #444444;"> would take centre stage and would be accompanied by </span><span style="color: blue;">Cous-Cous, Flat bread and salads.</span><span style="color: #444444;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<i>My not so <span style="color: magenta;">MERRY </span>side of life.</i></h3>
<span style="color: red;">Unfortunately at the grand young age of 50 I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis which was a whole life changer. No longer could I cook and entertain our friends and family, but not to be thwarted, Ian took over all the daily cooking.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"> Had I known what a good cook he was, I would have hung my pinny up years ago, </span><br />
<span style="color: red;">Then, our delightful daughters stepped up to the </span><span style="color: magenta;">'MERRIMEN</span><span style="color: magenta;">'</span><span style="color: #741b47;"> </span><span style="color: red;">and entertaining platform,</span><span style="color: red;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: red;"> they carried on cooking all our favourite recipes at our regular soire`s.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"> Often, our lovely neighbours invite us round for yummy dinners,</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"> Mother (moi) now acts as the Executive Chef, sitting in our cosy kitchen, glass in hand giving out instructions, whenever required,</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">. They don't really need help, they are all really good cooks in their own right,</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"> I suspect they do it, just to keep my love of cooking 'on the back burner' !</span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><i><span style="color: #351c75;">The </span><span style="color: magenta;">Mermaid's</span><span style="color: #351c75;"> song.</span></i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><i> I'm as pretty as can be, </i></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><i> And I'd like to invite you home for tea.</i></span></h4>
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<span style="color: blue;"><i> little old lady rock-a-bye</i></span></h3>
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(Thank you Roger, my former form tutor at my Liverpool college,<br />
A lovely, lovely guy.)<br />
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"If I decide to be indecisive that's my decision"<br />
(R. <span style="color: magenta;">McGough.</span>).<br />
"Always laugh when you can. It<span style="color: blue;"> is cheap medicine".</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">(Lord Byron).</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">My sincere thanks to the <span style="color: magenta;">Marvellous </span>Denise who devised ABCW so <span style="color: magenta;">many</span> years ago, and to Roger who <span style="color: magenta;">Magnanimously</span></span><span style="color: blue;"> stepped in to help as the site grew..... then ably assisted by Leslie who also took on the <span style="color: magenta;">Mammoth</span></span><span style="color: magenta;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">task.</span></i></h3>
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-82434734843623333922017-03-29T05:35:00.001-07:002017-03-29T09:07:22.439-07:00L for Library.<h4>
<i>At The <span style="color: blue;">Library </span>of Congress in 1979 a very talented writer called Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989) gave a <span style="color: blue;">lecture </span>called 'The Book'.</i><i>She was an American Historian and Author. She focused on writing popular history.</i><i> One biographer said of her, "Tuchman was not a historians historian but a lay person's historian, who made the past interesting to millions of readers".</i><i> Here is what she said at her <span style="color: blue;">Lecture </span>called;</i></h4>
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<i> "<span style="color: #4c1130;">Books are the carriers of civilization without books, history is silent,</span><span style="color: blue;"> literature </span><span style="color: #4c1130;">dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.</span></i></h4>
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<i> Then there is The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.</i></h4>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">My whole desire for reading and learning centred around this wonderful </span><span style="color: #e06666;">Library. </span><span style="color: blue;">Quite rightly the </span><span style="color: #e06666;">Librarians </span><span style="color: blue;">were highly respected in the community. When I started college we used </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Central Library </span><span style="color: blue;">in the City to research our particular subjects. </span></i></h4>
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-67202566233464091222017-03-13T10:37:00.000-07:002017-03-13T10:37:54.281-07:00J for random J's,<h3>
<i>Thomas <span style="color: #ea9999;">Jefferson. </span>1743-1826. Was the third President of the United States 1801-1809. He was a highly educated man, an American Founding Father, also he was the principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence'.</i></h3>
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<i> The highly acclaimed novel by British writer George Orwell <span style="color: #93c47d;">Animal Farm </span>( A brief synopsis of the story).</i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #93c47d;"></span>It evolves around a group of animals lead by the pigs, they decide to take over the farm and run it themselves, <span style="color: #6aa84f;">Old Major the oldest boar dies and the two younger boars Napoleon and Snowball, tired of the drunken farmer </span><span style="color: #e06666;">Mr Jones </span><span style="color: #6aa84f;">mistreating them drive him away, renaming the farm from Manor Farm into </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">Animal Farm.</span><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> The animals adapt the seven commandments of Animalism, the most import one being '</span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">All animals are equal'...</span></i></h3>
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-6949028265764916152017-03-08T08:20:00.002-08:002017-03-09T01:38:39.281-08:00I for Ink.<h3>
<i><span style="color: blue;">I love writing with Fountain pens that I can fill up with real </span><span style="color: magenta;">INK. </span><span style="color: blue;">My favourite pens are</span> <span style="color: blue;">made by </span>Watermans in Paris, </i></h3>
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-17793300009913555182017-02-28T07:46:00.003-08:002017-02-28T09:54:39.660-08:00 Heart Happiness Humour..<h3>
<i><span style="color: blue;">I like to feel that I'm generally a </span><span style="color: magenta;">Happy </span><span style="color: blue;">person and try to be optimistic when faced with a problem. The worse thing that can beset a person of my years is failing </span><span style="color: magenta;">Health.</span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: blue;"> My darling </span><span style="color: magenta;">Husband Ian has to have Heart</span><span style="color: blue;"> surgery to repair a leaky valve and to fit a stent in an artery.</span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: blue;"></span><span style="color: magenta;">However,</span><span style="color: blue;">before his </span><span style="color: magenta;">Heart </span><span style="color: blue;">is fixed he had to go on Dialysis as his kidneys are not functioning well. This has been going on for quite some time but now is 'crunch' time.</span></i></h3>
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-90764921283847468732017-02-21T08:48:00.002-08:002017-02-21T08:48:18.622-08:00G for St George's Hall Liverpool.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: blue;">Just as you sit down to dinner, drat! the blessed phone goes, it's a call from a poltical party wanting to know which way you're going to vote.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">He was a little boy puppet who turned into a real boy. However he was told by the Blue Fairy that he was to be truthful, polite and honest at all time....so she cast a spell upon him, so if at any time he told a lie his nose would grow.....</span></span></div>
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-61122321893629858222017-01-30T11:12:00.001-08:002017-02-02T03:24:30.448-08:00D for Dreams.<br />
<span style="color: blue;">As you all probably know I am a great Poetry fan,</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">I came across this sweet little verse a while ago, </span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">DREAMS..... </span>by Langston Hughes.<br />
Hold fast to dreams<br />
for if dreams die,<br />
Life is a broken winged bird<br />
That cannot fly<br />
Hold fast to dreams<br />
For when dreams go.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Tinkerbell said to Peter Pan</span></h4>
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<span style="color: blue;"> 'You know the place between sleep and wake,</span></h4>
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<span style="color: blue;"> the place where you still can remember </span><span style="color: magenta;">DREAMING,</span></h4>
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<span style="color: blue;">that's where I'll always love you,</span></h4>
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<span style="color: blue;"> That's where I'll be waiting'. </span></h4>
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<span style="color: blue;"> 'Never Never Land'</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">It was a place where children never</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">The story is the classic children's story</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">called Peter Pan, written by J.M. Barrie.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Peter was a boy who refused to grow up.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">he would fly out of his bedroom window</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">taking with him a few friends he also had a special</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">friend in Tinkerbell the fairy.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">They had many adventures in Neverland and </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Peter had several skirmishes with Captain Hook</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">and a ticking crocodile. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Eventually during their final skirmish Peter pushed Captain Hook into the Crocodile's jaws and wicked Hook was eaten... Hurrah !</span><br />
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-39591829827230818502017-01-24T07:01:00.000-08:002017-01-25T02:54:09.108-08:00C for Cities<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="color: magenta;">The City of Bolzano </span><span style="color: blue;">in The Southern Tyrol.</span></i></h3>
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This is a delicious plate of a cured pork which is lightly smoked in the farms in the surrounding mountains and pasturelands.</h3>
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A selection of local hand<br />
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This the the local tipple called Grappa, it is a distillate without additives or refining substances, It is a type of Pomace brandy and delicious served with Prosecco.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">One of the stunning views on the drive to the </span><span style="color: magenta;">City of Bolzano.</span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">After making two attempts to write a </span>CONTINUATION <span style="color: blue;">of my previous posts firstly about a visit to Austria then follwing on last week about a visit to the </span><span style="color: magenta;">CITY of Bolzano </span><span style="color: blue;">in the Southern Tyrol.</span></i></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;">(Please note that all the photographs on this site are taken by courtesy of various Google sites. You will see the names of the various photography firms in the watermark or beneath the picture. DW.)</span></h3>
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-42354365866004068022017-01-17T08:14:00.000-08:002017-01-25T02:49:20.593-08:00B for The Brenner Pass.<b><i><span style="color: blue;">The </span><span style="color: magenta;">Brenner </span><span style="color: blue;">Pass.</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="color: blue;"> Last week I wrote about a wonderful holiday I had in Austria (Europe); Whilst we were there we took a trip to Northern Italy to see the magical mountain range of The Dolomites (part of the Alps).</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="color: blue;"> The </span><span style="color: magenta;">Brenner </span><span style="color: blue;">Pass is a pass throgh the Alps , it forms a border between Austria and Italy;</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="color: blue;"> It is one of the principal passes of the Eastern Alpine range.</span></i></b><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Maharishi Mahesh </span><span style="color: magenta;">Yogi, (Yogi </span><span style="color: blue;">means great Seer)</span></i><i><span style="color: magenta;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">was a great Seer and travelled the world teaching </span><span style="color: purple;">Transendental meditation.</span></i></h4>
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<i><span style="color: blue;"> The Beatles went to study with him in Bangor North Wales, before travelling to Rishikesh in India (1968) to devote themselves fully to his instructions.</span></i></h4>
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<i style="color: #741b47;"> A sunny pleasure-dome within caves of ice!</i></h4>
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<i><span style="color: #741b47;">And so I will say goodbye and wish you all the Seasons Greetings, </span><span style="color: red;">Merry Christmas one and all.....</span><span style="color: lime;">My thanks to all the team that keep ABCW running particularly </span><span style="color: red;">Denise Roger Leslie and all Santa's little helpers....</span></i></div>
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-39458235887487580562016-12-06T05:00:00.000-08:002016-12-06T08:04:30.769-08:00V for<h3>
<i><span style="color: magenta;">Visions</span><span style="color: blue;"> of Christmas of Times Gone By. When I think of Christmas my thoughts invariably </span><span style="color: magenta;">venture </span><span style="color: blue;">back to my childhood in the 1950's.
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<i>Thanks to Denise who initially had the <span style="color: magenta;">VISION </span>to create ABCW and to Roger our<span style="color: magenta;"> Valourous </span>administrator together with Leslie his well <span style="color: magenta;">Versed </span>assistant.</i></div>
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-34730383958151208612016-11-01T05:38:00.001-07:002016-11-01T05:38:19.172-07:00Q for <span style="color: blue;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">A little silliness using the letter </span><span style="color: magenta;">Q </span><span style="color: blue;">that I have hastily put together, having just returned from holiday.</span></i></b></span><br />
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-64661612129729034842016-10-04T10:19:00.004-07:002016-10-04T10:19:26.610-07:00M for Manx .The Isle of Man.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="color: blue;">In the middle of the Irish Sea between England and Eire (Island) is a beautiful verdant Island called The Isle of </span><span style="color: magenta;">Man; </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">people born on the Island are known as </span><span style="color: magenta;">'Manxmen/woman'. </span><span style="color: blue;">The island is 52kilometers long and 22 kilometres wide; with an area of 572 square kilometers. At the last census, there were approximately 30,000 residents, about 2000 of them claimed to be able to speak or have a sound knowledge of the </span><span style="color: magenta;">Manx </span><span style="color: blue;">language.</span></span><span style="color: purple;"><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 style="color: blue;"><i><span style="color: blue;"> The Isle of </span><span style="color: magenta;">Man </span><span style="color: blue;">famed for the wonderful kippers they produce . There is an abundance of herrings in the seas around the island and for centuries they have been fished out of the emerald green waters and taken to the smoke houses and then to be smoked and turned into kippers.</span></i></span></h3>
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<i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="color: blue;">that </span><span style="color: magenta;">Love</span><span style="color: blue;"> costs all we are</span></b></span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="color: blue;">and will ever be</span></b></span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Yet it is only </span><span style="color: magenta;">Love</span></b></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="color: blue;">My sincere thanks to the </span><span style="color: blue;"> <span style="color: magenta;">Lovely </span>Denise for devising ABCW thus giving so much pleasure to many and also Roger the <span style="color: magenta;">Lexicographer</span> for doing what he does, ably assisted by <span style="color: magenta;">Leslie who Lightens the work load.</span></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Finally the band of <span style="color: magenta;">Lively</span> helpers who assist with the visits and encourage new contributors to keep on writing on ABCW.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Kind regards to all,</span></b></span></span><br />
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Trubeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15297883125832619352noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205754021811558638.post-59573190326369690412016-09-21T03:33:00.003-07:002016-09-22T03:58:52.802-07:00K for Rudyard Kipling<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: purple;">Last week, </span></i></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta;">RUDYARD KIPLING</span> as a young man in India.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: purple;"> .... ....</span><span style="color: blue;">IF.......</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">If you can keep your head when all about you</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">are losing theirs and blaming it on you,</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">If you can trust yourself when others doubt you,</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">But make allowances for their doubting too;</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">Or being lied about, don't deal in lies-</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">Or being hated, don't give way to hating,</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i></b></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">If you can dream-and not make dreams your master;</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim;</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">If you can meet with triumph and disaster</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">And treat those two imposters just the same</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">And stoop and build 'em up with worn out tools:</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">If you can make one heap of all your winning</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">Ans risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">- And lose, and start again at your beginnings</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">And never breath a word against your loss;</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>To serve your turn long after they are gone.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>And so hold on when there is nothing in you</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">If all men count with you, but none too much;</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></i></b></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">If you can fill the unforgiving minute</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">With sixty seconds' worth distance run -</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">Yours is the earth and everything that's in it,</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">And - which is more - </span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: blue;">You'll be a man my son !</span></i></b></span><br />
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Lieutenant John Kipling <span style="color: #6aa84f;">British Army </span> Regiment of <span style="color: #38761d;">The Irish Guards.</span></h4>
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<span style="color: magenta;">Ruyard Kipling's</span> beloved son who lost his life in the Battle of Loos Atois In France during World War One; He was just eighteen years of age.</h4>
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<span style="color: magenta;">Kipling </span>was distraught with grief because he introduced his son <span style="color: #38761d;">Jack</span> (John) to a close friend in the <span style="color: #38761d;">Irish Guards and was accepted into the regiment at </span><span style="color: magenta;">Kipling's request. </span><span style="color: #38761d;"> Jack had already been turned down by the Royal Air Corps and the Royal Navy because he had such poor eye sight and desperately wanted to serve his king and country.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">After his son's death Rudyard <span style="color: magenta;">KIPLING </span>wrote,</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"If any should question why we died, tell them, </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> because our fathers' lied" !</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: blue;">As we complete the penultimate round of abcw, I hope to write more about </span><span style="color: magenta;">RUDYARD KIPLING, </span><span style="color: blue;">his amazing works and life.</span></i></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: blue;">My sincere thanks to the KINDLY Denise the founder of abcw, also to Roger our most KNOWLEDGEABLE Admin. Man. Also to The Pedalogue Leslie who is blessed with the 'KNOWHOW' to support Roger and his team of helpers who KNUCKLEDOWN each week and visit others by reading and encouraging their 'contributions to ABCW.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: blue;">Best wishes,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: blue;">Di,</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: blue;">ABCW team.</span></i></span></div>
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