ABC Wednesday, F for Food and Fagin.

 

Another book written by Charles Dickens ( see my post of August 9, 2011) is Oliver Twist, which serves as the plot for the musical "Oliver", written by Lionel Bart."Food, Glorious Food", is the opening song of this musical ! Oliver Twist is a young orphan, living in an orphanage, which is in fact a horrible workhouse where the boys are badly treated and poorly fed. It is sung when the workhouse boys are dreaming and fantasizing about food while going to collect their gruel from the staff of the workhouse.Later on Oliver escapes from the undertaker's shop where he had to work. He arrives in London and meets the street urchin Dodger, who takes him to a place, where he lives together with many other street boys under the leadership of Fagin. One thing is sure:"The food is great!".But he has to go out with the boys learning to pick pockets, which he cannot do,then he meets an old gentleman who saves him from a lot of dangerous situations and who adopts him as his grandson.

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Oliver is one of my favourite musicals. I saw it several times on video and I showed it to my students learning English. The songs are great and the characters are well performed. Oliver is a sweet young orphan and Dodger is a street urchin with a heart of gold. Fagin is absolutely inimitable. Here he comes as the man who trains little street boys to pick pockets.



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that's My World, ABC Wednesday, F for Ferry

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Top photo: Ferry to Texel, an island in the north of Holland on a winter's day.Taken by my Dutch daughter
Second photo: The same ferry to Texel on a summer's day.
Third photo : Ferry to Rotterdam.
Fourth photo: Ferry across the river Lek to Kinderdijk, where the windmills are.

The ferry to Kinderdijk was always popular with my children.We used to walk to the wind mills when the children were little. I even went there when the youngest was lying in the pram and his sisters were five and two. They were always excited to be on that ferry. It takes a few minutes to cross the river Lek. When I have visitors I always walk with them to Kinderdijk.

In a country with so much water like ours, we need ferries and bridges. Somehow I prefer ferries, because there is so much to see on the river.
Our Dutch ferries are but small in comparison to those we need to travel to Great Britain or Scandinavia. Besides the Dutch ferries need only a short time to cross a river and not more than half an hour to travel to one of the islands.

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With thanks to Denise Nesbitt, who created ABC.We started round 8 of the fascinating meme of ABC. For more interesting ABC posts click on the logo in the sidebar or Here. This week we are looking for words beginning with F.

ABC Wednesday, F for Flåm Railway, Norway

When we were in Bergen in 2005, we decided to travel to Flåm. First by an ordinary train and we had to change trains in Myrdal and wait there for the Flåm train. We were glad when it arrived for it was cold waiting in the snow.


When I think of the Flåm Railway in Norway,I think of the number 20. It took 20 years to build the railway, it has 20 tunnels and it's 20 kms long.
Travelling in this train we passed waterfalls and the Kjos Fall was especially very spectacular.We stopped there for a while to take photos. There was a woodnymph, dressed in red singing, trying to lure all the male passengers away.;)

The Flåm Railway, which passes through the beautiful, narrow Flåm valley, is regarded as a masterpiece of Norwegian engineering. Work was started in 1924, the railway was finished during the war.
The most time-consuming work was on the tunnels. These were excavated manually. Only two of the twenty tunnels, which have a total length of 6 km, were excavated using machines.
The steep mountainsides were a major challenge, the solution being to build hairpin tunnels in order to equalise the big differences in altitude on the steep mountain. The danger of avalanches and rock falls also constituted a problem. To avoid these hazardous stretches, the line crosses the river and valley three times during the journey, but it does not cross the river on bridges. Instead, the river is led through the mountain in tunnels underneath the railway line.


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ABC Wednesday, F for Flat Life

Click to enlarge please to read the captions! Cartoons made by Heath Robinson.

When we started our married life, we first lived in a very small house with three small bedrooms and a bathroom on the first floor, and on the groundfloor a livingroom, a kitchen and a toilet. We were very happy, although the flat roof started to leak on a winter night and the frontdoor was rotting. Two children were born there. When I was expecting the third one, we decided to move house. We chose this house, where I still live. I still like it. There are four bedrooms and I can have plenty of
guests. All rooms are larger and the top floor contains a very large bedroom and a lumber room, where the central heater is. Looking at the cartoons, which are really funny, I do believe that people become very inventive, when they have to live in a very limited space. Though we never lived in such conditions, we also tried to find a place for our furniture, which was never too big.

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Douce France by Charles Trenet, for lyrics scroll down

ABC Wednesday F for France.

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Friday 3rd August 2007.
After a long drive from our home in Holland, my daughter, Superkid, his father and I arrived very late at a campsite in the middle of France,where we were setting up tents at 23.00 hours in the dark.

Our place of destination was Messanges 45 kilometres north of Biarritz and 150 kilometres south of Bordeaux on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

Saturday,4th August 2007.
A long day of travelling on roads with one traffic jam after the other took us to Messanges where we arrived at 23.00 hours. The owner of the house found us in the middle of the village and guided us to the house. She is a wonderful person and so is her partner. After having a glass of wine together we settled in the house and went to bed.
These were the surroundings of our holiday residence: Sea, forest and a kind of lake formed by the sea. We walked, cycled and swam and had a pleasant week together.

Saturday, 11 August 2007
On our way back to Holland we came through the town of Montbazon and saw this castle ruin, so we went to have a closer look. The lady who sold us the tickets, told us that a team of archeologists has been working in the ruins for four years now.


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F for Flight, and Fish

Scenic flights in Cairns by helicopter.

Finally I am back again and I guess it’s the letter “F” this Wednesday that is going to dominate our blogs. Well that’s not so difficult for it is the first letter of flight. Our flight to Hong Kong was on 15th July. It was very uneventful and we arrived right in time in Hong Kong where we stayed for 16 hours in a dayroom in a good hotel.(Our flight from Australia to Hong Kong, however, was very chaotic. I'll tell you later about it.) On Thursday 17th July, we arrived in Cairns without delay. We rented a car and stayed another week in Cairns.Then we went to Cooktown where my daughter lives with her family.
We went fishing on the beach with my daughter's aboriginal relatives and lit a fire to brew tea in a billy, which is very Australian.
Lateron in the week we went fishing on the Reef. I caught one fish and decided to take photos during the rest of the time. My daughter's youngest child caught 4 fish which made him very happy. The biggest fish was called a mother-in-law- fish!! The smallest fish had a mouth with three rows of very sharp teeth. It was called a coral cod.

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F for Fruit.

Jack fruit

Fruit in Australia is far more interesting than the European apples and pears. In one of the photos you see the well known melon, bananas, starfruit, passion fruit and soursop.Another photo shows us choko fruit, and I have a jackfruit for you as well! Many of these pieces of fruit grow on my daughter's property. She also has mangos and coconuts.

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F for Fire.

We made a fire on the beach with my daughter's in-laws. She is divorced but is still good friends with her ex. Another fire making was shown in Tjapukai near Cairns. It was a show about the culture of the indigenous people of Australia. Very impressive.

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