Well done, Angela Merkel!

According to today’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,  the German Chancellor will this evening present a media award to the Danish cartoonist, whose cartoon of Mohammed with a bomb in his turban roused the ire of hundreds of thousands of feeble-minded Moslems, who of course had never even seen it. Frau Merkel will be photographed with the cartoonist, thus demonstrating, as the FAZ points out, her determination that German and Europe will continue to be places where freedom of expression is upheld.

Catching up on the past

Never one to make it to the cinema I often feel I have missed out. In the past when we regularly went to the Lakes for a holiday we were also members of the local library, where we would descend on the first day and pick up our entertainment for the week – books for the children (as they were then) and a few DVDs for the grown-ups to watch, with a  bottle of wine, cuddled up on the sofa, after they’d gone to bed.
Doesn’t take much to make me happy. Continue reading “Catching up on the past”

50 things to do in my 51st year

I have a significant birthday on the horizon (half a century, not out and all that) –  and to follow the idea of a friend I have decided to make a list of 50 things to do in the year that follows. These things will include, maybe, activities I used to do, but have given up, plus new things I have never tried and new good  habits to establish.

I have three months to plan….

Has anyone else tried this?

What would you put on your list?