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Date: 27 September 2008 19:23:09
It has been a good day.
We had an easy start to the morning. When I woke up there was no sign of FW. She'd woken up earlier and couldn't get back to sleep, so had gone weeding instead.
For lunch we went to Chapel for our Harvest Lunch. They had agreed to start at 12:30 to accomodate FW's need to go to work for 14:00; so we turned up at 12:45 :-) They were vey good about it. They'd also ensured that there were many, many potatoes. T&E hates salad but loves potatoes - whatever their guise. Therefore several ladies kept plying me with more and more bowls.
Thankfully I didn't over indulge. I had to leave room for the homemade Christmas Pudding. Mmmmmm!!!!
Tomorrow we have our Harvest Festival that is being led by Voctory Outreach. A charity that works with offenders and ex-offenders to show them the salvation that is waiting for them and the rehabilitation and support that can only be found through Jesus. We've been waiting to meet them for the last 18 months.
Afterwards I dropped FW at the Folly and made may way down the hill to watch Pooler play Swansea. I was glad I did as we won 20-17, our first win of the season.
Afterwards I collected FW from the Folly and we went to see Best Man, who is looking better and is more engaged with what is happening. I have to remember to take some of his books in tomorrow so he can prove to poeple that he is indeed a writer.
History Today:
1009: Caliph al Hakim orders the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, a Christian holy site.
1540: The Society of Jesus receives its formal charter from Pope Paul III. The society was founded by former Spanish soldier turned priest, Ignatius De Loyola. We know them better as the Jesuits. They are seen as being the "shock troops" of Catholic expansion and represented as Papal spies.
1590: Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being elected Pope. It is the shortest Papal reign.
1821: Mexico gains independence from Spain.
1825: The world's first steam locomotive passenger railway opens between Stockton and Darlington.
1939: German troops capture Warsaw.
1940: Germany, Italy and Japan sign a 10 year military and economic aid pact, called the Axis. Within 5 years none of these governments would be in power and their leaders would be dead.
1960: Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette and international socialist, dies on Addis Ababa at the age of 78.
1964: The Warren Commision publishes its report into the Kennedy assassination and concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assissin and dismisses the theory of a wider conspiracy.
1970: After 10 days of bitter fighting in Jordan, King Hussein and, the PLO leader, Yasar Arafat sign a ceasfire agreement. Many Palestinians are forced to leave for Lebanon; including the PLO. They face problems there later after destabilising that country as well.
1996: The Taliban seize control of the Afghan capital, Kabul.