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Date: 29 September 2008 19:03:35
The rest of the weekend was equally as good as Saturday.
Sunday saw our harvets service being led by Victory Outreach. They are a local Christian charity that assists prisoners and drug users to detox and restart their lives. They run several houses for males and females and are widely admired for their success rate.
Unfortunately they have had problems recently with the Supporting People Grant system run by the government. They were told that there were several additionals conditions to meet that would hae effected the success of their work and, despite appeals right to the top of government, they lost their funding.
Now they have to rely on handouts from fellow Christians in order to carry on. Things are looking very tight but they are managing to survive living by faith.
At lunchtime we had a meal to celebrate my sister's onward march to 40 and her husband's march to 45 - yes! I know that I'm older than both, though only 9 months more than him. FW was unable to join us as she was doing her final shift at the Folly.
In the evening we managed to work in a visit to Best Man.
History Today:
855 : Benedict III is elected Pope.
1364: An English army defeats the French at the Battle of Auray and end the Breton War of Succession.
1829: Prime Minister Robert Peel establishes the Metropolitan Police - known as "bobbies" and "Peelers".
1918: After a 56 hour bombardment the Allies breach the Hindenburg Line, the Germans last line of defense on the Western Front. The end is nigh!!
1938: The 'Munich Agreement' between Britain, France and Germany cedes the Czech Sudetenland to Germany. Supposedly Hitler would be satisfied with the outcome and shelve further plans for European expansion. I wonder how that worked out!!
1941: Nazi Einsatzgruppen murder 33,771 Jews from Kiev at Babi Yar. This was the worst single Einsatzgruppen atrocity.
1952: John Cobb, the British world water speed recordholder, dies on Loch Ness when his craft, Crusader, breaks up after hitting waves at 240 mph. Or was it the fault of Nessie?
1960: Nikita Krushchev voices his disapproval at the UN's handling of the troubles in Congo and makes several interruptions during the course of a UN debate in New York. This includes banging his shoe on the dias. They wakey guys these Communists.
1972: China and Japan re-establish diplomatic relations.