Chill

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Date: 09 August 2008 18:02:09

Today we have been visited by Aber Girl. She had a lovely day to visit as it was raining for most of it. So she and FW went to visit the allotment, while I watched the 2 Sweeney films on DVD. It's great when visitors are happy to sit and chill rather than have to "do" something.

We are away for the next 2 weekends, in London with Stroppy Boy next week and to FW's family for the bank holiday. Then the following Thursday we're running a holiday bible club for 2 days. So it has been good to chill out without having to over exert ourselves this week.

History Today:

48BC: Julius Caesar defeats Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus and thus gains control in Rome.

378 : Emperor Valens is killed at the Batlle of Adrianople as the Goths destroy the eastern Roman army.

1842: The Webster Ashburton treaty, signed by Brtain and the US, establishes the border between Canada and America.

1945: An atom bomb is dropped on the port of Nagasaki by the US bomber 'Bock's Car'. The Americans were said to comment: "Ooops! Butter fingers!"

1979: Britain's first nudist beach is established in Brighton.

1996: Boris Yeltsin is inaugarated as the first democratically elected President of Russia.