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Date: 25 August 2008 13:09:56
This weekend has been very quiet and relaxing. FW has been away visiting her family and I've stayed at home watching films and football - though the football was a great disappointment (that's what happens when you follow West Ham).
In between I have had to do some work as I have things moving for a customer this weekend, so I have had to have my Blackberry and mobile on. I also have to read through the pack ready for Thursday and Friday's Holiday Club at chapel.
This morning I had a call from Shouty Boy asking if he could come and live with us. I asked him what he'd done wrong; why else would he want to leave home? It appears that he'd been fighting with his brother. I pointed out that he wouldn't want to live with me as I'd tell him off. After that he seemed happy to stay with his family.
History Today:
1940: The RAF mounts its first air raid on Berlin. This is a responsive to Germany's bombing of London two nights earlier. Goering had said that if one bomb fell on Germany then "you can call me Meyer". In Germany this would have been an insult.
1944: Paris is liberated intact. The German general Dietrich von Cholitz had disobeyed Hitler's orders to destroy the city. It seems odd that, after 5 years of war, Paris came through with barely a scratch compared with London or Berlin.
1997: Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of instigating the shhot-to-kill policy for defectors.