If you are up to date with my blog, you will remember that earlier this week we didn't get the rain that they forecasted and it has been mild and pleasant.
Well, that all changed this afternoon and it's wet out there and she's thanking her lucky stars that she raided the North End Road market yesterday and gathered up eggs, fruit and other bits n' bobs.
Unfortunately, she didn't make it to the library and is out of library books but luckily, Tereza, our upstairs neighbour had given her a bag of books for the charity shop, so she stuck her hand into that and came out with a cracker of a good book.
It's a novel woven around history, history that wasn't in her history books when she was at school.
'Greeks Bearing Gifts' by Philip Kerr.
Based in Germany and Greece in 1957, the book revealed to her the story of the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Thessaloniki.. aka Solonika and the theft - plundering of their gold and other items of value.
The ramifications of that plundering still rumble on to this very day because Germany has never paid one pfennig, mark or euro to Greece or to the Jewish survivors in compensation.
We recommend you read this book. Everyone should read history.. especially people who think of themselves or call themselves politicians ..
Philip Kerr, who sadly died of cancer on the 23rd of March, 2018 just before this book was published, wove an extremely clever tale of espionage, trickery, murder and subterfuge.
He wrote several books and armed with his name, she will be getting them out of the library in order to read more of this man's excellently crafted work.
It's now pitch dark out there and heavy rain is falling, we are grateful to be indoors and dry, with both food and water to hand.
A great many others, some through no fault of their own, are much less fortunate.
GeeGee Parrot.
November 10th, 2018.
PostSript: Tomorrow at 11.00 o'clock on the 11th day of the 11th month 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the end of WW1.
The phrase 'The war to end war ' was penned by H. G. Wells.
If she was well enough, she would be going to commemorate this anniversary at our local church, St.Columba in Pont Street.
This site certainly knows about war because the original church, built in 1884, was destroyed by wartime enemy bombing on the night of 10th May, 1941.
Well, that all changed this afternoon and it's wet out there and she's thanking her lucky stars that she raided the North End Road market yesterday and gathered up eggs, fruit and other bits n' bobs.
Unfortunately, she didn't make it to the library and is out of library books but luckily, Tereza, our upstairs neighbour had given her a bag of books for the charity shop, so she stuck her hand into that and came out with a cracker of a good book.
It's a novel woven around history, history that wasn't in her history books when she was at school.
'Greeks Bearing Gifts' by Philip Kerr.
Based in Germany and Greece in 1957, the book revealed to her the story of the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Thessaloniki.. aka Solonika and the theft - plundering of their gold and other items of value.
The ramifications of that plundering still rumble on to this very day because Germany has never paid one pfennig, mark or euro to Greece or to the Jewish survivors in compensation.
We recommend you read this book. Everyone should read history.. especially people who think of themselves or call themselves politicians ..
Philip Kerr, who sadly died of cancer on the 23rd of March, 2018 just before this book was published, wove an extremely clever tale of espionage, trickery, murder and subterfuge.
He wrote several books and armed with his name, she will be getting them out of the library in order to read more of this man's excellently crafted work.
It's now pitch dark out there and heavy rain is falling, we are grateful to be indoors and dry, with both food and water to hand.
A great many others, some through no fault of their own, are much less fortunate.
GeeGee Parrot.
November 10th, 2018.
PostSript: Tomorrow at 11.00 o'clock on the 11th day of the 11th month 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the end of WW1.
The phrase 'The war to end war ' was penned by H. G. Wells.
If she was well enough, she would be going to commemorate this anniversary at our local church, St.Columba in Pont Street.
This site certainly knows about war because the original church, built in 1884, was destroyed by wartime enemy bombing on the night of 10th May, 1941.
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