Stinky-Dinky.. That is one of the names that MY beloved calls ME. There are others too.. but perhaps I will not spill the beans as children may read MY Blog and I do not want complaints from parents.
Anyway, stories about men with nick names are plots for this Post..
In one of the English Sunday papers today, there is the story of a young British soldier serving in Afghanistan who has recently been made an MBE. The reason for him being so honoured is for having the extraordinary talent of being able to glance at a tree and tell immediately if the insurgents have hidden things amongst its' branches.
On one day alone, he identified eleven trees with ammunition and parts for bombs concealed amongst their branches
He attributes this talented skill to a childhood love of climbing trees and playing hide-and-seek. He also developed a knack of spotting the 'marker' that the Taliban used to mark where they had buried AK-47 rifles.
He has found FORTY SEVEN such stashes.
His nickname.. Private Squirrel.
The much older Tale comes from faar away from Afghanistan.
Exactly when he began his epic journey is unknown but in 1806 Jonathan Chapman loaded a boat with apple seeds and floated down the River Ohio to Wellsburg in West Virginia, where, with his brother, he started a nursery.
From there he paddled into the very centre of Ohio, handing out his seeds to every settler who promised to plant and take care of them.
Occasionally, he planted the seeds himself, protecting them with brushwood and asking the local farmers to protect the trees and to help themselves to the fruit.
Often he travelled by foot and as he moved westwards into Indiana, he left a living trail of infant Apple orchards behind him. His trees were still to be found in northern central Ohio in 1900, and a tree was reputed to still be alive on a farm in Ashland County until the 1960s.
He wandered the wildernesses of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana for forty six years and travelled more than a hundred thousand miles.
His nickname.. in the USA.. YOU know him as Johnny Appleseed.
Over two hundred years separate these two men.. but courage and determination are two adjectives that SHE applies to them both.
Oh.. Tea time.. Lapsang is what WE want. Black, no sugar. Slurp..
GeeGee Parrot.
March 24th, 2013.
Anyway, stories about men with nick names are plots for this Post..
In one of the English Sunday papers today, there is the story of a young British soldier serving in Afghanistan who has recently been made an MBE. The reason for him being so honoured is for having the extraordinary talent of being able to glance at a tree and tell immediately if the insurgents have hidden things amongst its' branches.
On one day alone, he identified eleven trees with ammunition and parts for bombs concealed amongst their branches
He attributes this talented skill to a childhood love of climbing trees and playing hide-and-seek. He also developed a knack of spotting the 'marker' that the Taliban used to mark where they had buried AK-47 rifles.
He has found FORTY SEVEN such stashes.
His nickname.. Private Squirrel.
The much older Tale comes from faar away from Afghanistan.
Exactly when he began his epic journey is unknown but in 1806 Jonathan Chapman loaded a boat with apple seeds and floated down the River Ohio to Wellsburg in West Virginia, where, with his brother, he started a nursery.
From there he paddled into the very centre of Ohio, handing out his seeds to every settler who promised to plant and take care of them.
Occasionally, he planted the seeds himself, protecting them with brushwood and asking the local farmers to protect the trees and to help themselves to the fruit.
Often he travelled by foot and as he moved westwards into Indiana, he left a living trail of infant Apple orchards behind him. His trees were still to be found in northern central Ohio in 1900, and a tree was reputed to still be alive on a farm in Ashland County until the 1960s.
He wandered the wildernesses of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana for forty six years and travelled more than a hundred thousand miles.
His nickname.. in the USA.. YOU know him as Johnny Appleseed.
Over two hundred years separate these two men.. but courage and determination are two adjectives that SHE applies to them both.
Oh.. Tea time.. Lapsang is what WE want. Black, no sugar. Slurp..
GeeGee Parrot.
March 24th, 2013.
These are tales about names definitely worth recounting. Of course, as an American I knew the story about Johnny Appleseed. The story of Private Squirrel is jolly cute. Boy! Those musta been some serious games of hide & seek.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine the way HIS company commander treasures him, as do the rest of them!
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