Today was the first anniversary of the suicide bombing of the Ariane Grande concert in Manchester.  Twenty-two people died, including the bomber - a troubled young man by all accounts.  More than 800 people were injured ( Read more... )

Gosh it's turned cooler today!  *Pulls on cardigan and mitts*

The weekend was good.  I'd managed to get everything done before BiL came, including having lunch.  He duly arrived with a large bunch of flowers (I like a man to bring me flowers.)  H turned up shortly afterwards.

The cake worked very well.
 
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Oh look, the leaks to the US continue.  Monday/Tuesday somehow someone leaked information about the suicide bomber to some website in the US, thus warning his family that they were being searched for ( Read more... )

Monday night I went to bed as usual.  It wasn't until I met BiL yesterday that I heard about what had happened in Manchester on Monday night.

A man had made a nail bomb, strapped it to himself and gone and blown himself up outside the Manchester Arena just as the audience were coming out.

At least 22 people were killed outright.  64 are still ( Read more... )

So the House of Commons voted to bomb Syria - that's to bomb where they think IS is located in Syria.  Gah!  They're even claiming that the first bombing raids were 'successful'.  What does that mean?  The planes came back?  They dropped their bombs?  They dropped their bombs on some target?  The bombs actually killed some IS people?  Or what ( Read more... )

We Saw the Eclipse!

Yeah, I know, so . . .   So all this year so far it's either been raining, or the cloud cover has been total, or astronomical events have occurred too near either the sunrise, sunset or the horizon in any direction - which is covered, round here, by Victorian housing, or just plain light pollution from all the streetlights ( Read more... )