SOE agent Violette Szabó was one of the most incredible women who operated behind enemy lines during the Second World War. The daughter of an English father and French mother, and widow of a French army officer, she was daring and courageous, conducting sabotage missions, being embroiled in gun battles and battling betrayal. On her […]
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As ambiguous as she is hideous, Baba Yaga is an anomaly. In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga is both a maternal, mother nature figure and an evil villain who kidnaps and eats children.
"The Attic" I’m not sure when I wrote this one, but I just rediscovered it.
Seventy years since Anne Frank's arrest, Chris Leadbeater visits the house that shielded her
Aldous Huxley quote about civilization from Brave New World: “I ate civilization. . . . It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then . . . I ate my own wickedness.”
The last two years of my life have sped past so incredibly slowly. A moment in time that I'll carry with me forever, memories that will never ever be distant, yet every minute since has dragged into an eternity and I cannot remember life before her loss. I wish I could say that I had the confidence I found 3 months ago. My days are spent collecting the pieces of our lives and frantically trying to put them back together, carrying on in that way that I appear to manage so very well. But it feels like a lie. I watch over my shoulder the whole time, I stuff random collections in bags, and grab what I can as quickly as possible before running away to hide again. The need to be under cover is so great when above our heads is the most huge of clouds. One of our children is not with us at the top of our mountain, cannot bear to start collecting up those pieces. And that tortures us all. "Don't Cry Because It's Over, Smile Because It Happened." Wise words indeed Dr Seuss, but so much easier said than done. Still we try. I collect the smiles each month as I have since the very first, to try to remind us all that while Elspeth is gone, the rest of our forevers are full of hope and possibility. We talk of Elspeth, and we talk of her fondly. Sometimes we laugh and remember the good times, her wit and humour, her favourite cake. We joke that she'd be annoyed by scriptwriting on her favourite TV shows. We miss her, we will always miss her, but we have memories we can enjoy, and there can be smiles when we say her name. I long for that message to be understood by our own young person. I want them to appreciate that however crap and hopeless life seems for them right now, you have 70 years left and you will see so much more than this. You will shout and you will lose, and you will have times when you cannot see the path ahead, but you will also win, you will love and you will laugh. You will always miss her, you will cry and when you least expect it that hole will get so big your heart will feel it is being torn in two. But the day will come that you will be able to remember her with a smile. Even on the darkest of days, the smiles are always there if you look for them. I post ours each month as a reminder of where we are, and I can see in every one the reason why we carry on. My little boys feature heavily as ever. They smile, they play, they laugh. They accept what little they are told about their hospitalised sibling without question. It comforts and saddens me in equal measure that 2 years after losing their sister to suicide and with another sibling desperately ill, they are naively unaware that everyone else's life is not just the same as theirs...this is their normal. Here are the smiles I have collected over the last month...you are welcome to share yours on Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #TBCSmiles - because they always make me smile too. Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. ~ John Berridge Thanks to Hayley for sharing the goldfish. Origin unknown.
Pics taken from across the WW2 theatre
Adverbs of manner answer the question “HOW“? It tells us how something happen. It is usually placed after the main verb or after the object. accidentally angrily anxiously awkwardly badly beautifully blindly boldly bravely brightly busily calmly carefully carelessly cautiously cheerfully clearly closely correctly courageously cruelly daringly deliberately doubtfully eagerly easily elegantly enormously enthusiastically equally eventually exactly faithfully fast fatally fiercely fondly foolishly fortunately frankly frantically generously gently gladly gracefully greedily happily hard hastily healthily honestly hungrily hurriedly Inadequately Ingeniously Innocently Inquisitively Irritably joyously justly kindly lazily loosely loudly madly mortally mysteriosly neatly nervously noisily obediently openly painfully patiently perfectly politely poorly
Robert Smalls - WTF fun fact
If you're someone struggling with acne, it can be reassuring to know that even the most famous faces deal with it, too (just watch any Proactiv commercial).
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