ABC Wednesday, V for Vivo and Vehicle.

Last month I got this wonderful mobility scooter from my Dutch daughter as an early birthday present, because I can't cycle anymore. I was looking for an object beginning with "V", when I saw the name of the scooter brand "Vivo"!
Little by little I get used to my tiny vehicle. I meet a lot of people who are kind and lend me a helping hand.  The main super market has slidingdoors and most of the smaller shops as well. The people in this village are helpful, especially the elderly ones. Well I am happy that I am mobile again.

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Our World Tuesday, ABC Wednesday, V for Violet

If I want to describe the colour "violet"I can do that best by showing flowers.

Violet is a colour between blue and red

African violet

Peony

Rose

Geranium

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ABC Wednesday, V for Venomous

 

 

Australia's snake variety

Australia has some 140 species of land snake, and around 32 species of sea snakes have been recorded in Australian waters. Some 100 Australian snakes are venomous, although only 12 are likely to inflict a wound that could kill you.

The most dangerous snakes belong to the front-fanged group, which in NSW include the tiger snake, brown snake, death adder, mulga or king brown snake and a few species of sea snake(.I personally think that the Taipan also belongs to this group).

Australia's other snakes are the solid-toothed non-venomous snakes (such as pythons, blind snakes and file snakes) and venomous rear-fanged snakes (such as the brown tree snake and mangrove snakes). All native snakes in NSW are protected under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974.

 However the Taipan is the most venomous snake, not even in Australia, but of the world.

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ABC Wednesday, V for Viking Law

This last summer I was again in beautiful Norway. I read several books about the Vikings, because they were the guys who sailed all over the northern hemisphere and invaded our countries. There were at the time no human rights treaties and the actions of the Vikings were quite understandable if you read their laws, especially their first law: Be Brave and Aggressive!

I sincerely believe that they were law-abiding people! They were obedient to these rules! I, personally like the fourth law!

 They left their traces  like the jurisdiction in the UK! They also had a judge and jury in court like in Britain and the USA.

Their alphabet however is very complicated. See for your self and try to write a comment with  these letters.

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ABC Wednesday, V for Veteran

 

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When we talk about veterans, we refer to the military men and women who served in the wars of the last century, and especially those soldiers who served during WW I and WW II. But in the mean time there have been more wars, like Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan. Each of these wars have military people who are too old to fight or have been injured in such a way that they cannot serve anymore.

Last week we commemorated D-Day. The veterans of this invasion 70 years ago, are really very old. Even if they were the very young ones when they fought in Normandy.

Wikipedia says:

"It was the last hurrah for the men of the greatest generation and they were determined to mark their contribution to history with a show.

And one, at least, told his story for the first time because the horror was too severe to confront and convey until now.

Watched by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Normandy Veterans’ Association staged what is expected to be its final parade through the streets of the seaside village where many of its members landed 70 years ago yesterday.

In Arromanches, beside Gold Beach, the veterans marched to the applause of a 3,000 crowd, heads held high.

Those in wheelchairs paraded first followed by around 100 men marching behind a French band, as other veterans, too frail to take part, watched from seats in front of William and Kate.

The association is due to disband later this year as its numbers dwindle, although many, in their 80s and 90s, have agreed to keep returning anyway.

They come not only to pay their respects to the friends but in some cases to find release from the demons that have haunted them ever since.

One such yesterday was Ken Scott, 98, a former Platoon Sergeant with the Durham Light Infantry who finally told the story he dared not tell his friends."

I say:

"All wars were made for nothing, but once one has been started you have to go on and try to end it by killing as many enemies( fellow humans) as possible. Every soldier( usually a nice and pleasant young man) has to become a killing machine. When the war is over, the soldier is so traumatised , that he has lost his nice and pleasant character. He is not the same anymore.

I hate wars. The veterans have  to live a life of terrible memories and nightmares. They are the victims of belligerent rulers who started these fatal conflicts. Wars end without winners, there are only losers. The only people who benifit from a war are the arms manifacturers."

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ABC Wednesday, V for Volkswagen

This article is about the original Volkswagen Beetle. 

Volkswagen Type 1

Early 1966 Volkswagen Beetle
Wikipedia:

"The Volkswagen Beetle, officially called the Volkswagen Type 1 (or informally the Volkswagen Bug), is an economy car produced by the German auto maker Volkswagen (VW) from 1938 until 2003. The car was conceived by Adolf Hitler when he was leader of Nazi Germany and wanted a cheap, simple car; he contracted Porsche in 1934 to design and build it to his exacting standards. Ferdinand Porsche and his team took until 1938 to finalise the design. The Beetle is the longest-running and most-manufactured car of a single design platform, worldwide."

When we went to Scandinavia in 1976 we drove through Germany. My four years old son was very excited because of all the Volkswagens he saw. He continually shouted:"Mum, dad, there's again a Beetle !"He was angry that we didn't look surprised that there were so many Volkswagens on the road.

In 2005 my daughter, her children and I were in New Zealand, where my then three years old grandson was very much interested in VW Beetles, because of the Herbie movies. He called them Herbie cars. There happened to be several of them in NZ at that time .

So the Beetle played a significant role in our lives.

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      Herbie!

ABC Wednesday, V for Victory

My elder Australian grandson often makes this V sign. I never asked the meaning of it, because I want to believe that it is the same V sign Winston Churchill made during the war. He meant the V of Victory. If you enlarge the photo you will see another V on his cap.

 

 

 Victory is such a powerful word. We all need to overcome problems in life, and wouldn't it be absolutely marvellous to gain the victory over them. An old Aboriginal elder once told me the story of his life, which was devastating. In spite of the fact that he was used as a slave and consequently humiliated, he said that he emerged a Victor and was no longer a Victim.

 

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WW II was a war in which the battle cry was "V for Victory." Millions of people in Europe were called on to use the alphabetical letter V [meaning victory] on every occasion possible. They were urged to chalk or paint the letter V on the walls of buildings, in the street and in public conveyances.

Mr. Churchill's message was as follows:

"The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories and a portent of the fate awaiting Nazi tyranny. So long as the peoples continue to refuse all collaboration with the invader it is sure that his cause will perish and that Europe will be liberated."

 

 

You know something: the Dutch word for Peace is VREDE

 

 

 

 

Our World Tuesday, ABC Wednesday V for The Veluwe

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Today I am leaving for Australia, and hope to stay there for three weeks. We shall all meet in Tasmania, my family and I, and celebrate Christmas  together. But today I also like to tell you something of the Netherlands.
  The Veluwe is a beautiful part of the province of Gelderland in the middle of the Netherlands.Gelderland  is the largest province in the Netherlands.   The capital is Arnhem. Gelderland, and especially  is very popular with tourists and holiday makers. 
The video is taken in a holiday centre near the town of Putten. In one of the photos  you see a board telling the story of the men who were taken to Germany never to return to their families as a punishment because the people of the resistance had killed one of the Germans.

Holiday camp near Hoenderloo

Holiday park near Hoenderloo

The park of the Hoge Veluwe( High Veluwe)

We could use a white bike to cycle through the park.

ABC Wednesday, V for Via Dolorosa

We were walking through the old town again to follow the Via Dolorosa, which is unlikely to be the precise path that Jesus walked. The original way is probably hidden under 2000 years of ruins of buildings. However large slabs of stone from the times of the Roman occupation were found along the way. The route begins in the Arab Quarter. There are fourteen stations, the last five are situated in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Each station shows one of the events that happened to Jesus when he was carrying his cross to the place of execution, which was Golgotha.

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Our World Tuesday, ABC Wednesday, V of Vis-à-vis

Vis-à-vis means literally 'face to face'. Often now used in the sense of 'in relation to'.
Origin
The term is French and began to be used in English in the mid 18th century. The French spelling is vis-à-vis, i.e. with the grave accent, although that is often omitted when written in English. It is now frequently printed, no doubt to French shrugs and mutterings, as 'vis-a-vis' or even 'viz-a-viz'.

All these photos were taken in Gouda.

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ABC Wednesday, V for vegetarian

One of my daughters is a vegetarian. She hates to kill animals and eating them afterwards, although she eats eggs and fish. When she was a child, I often cooked for her a meat free dish. Fortunately she liked mushrooms, nuts, eggs, fish and cheese. So I made several times a dish with pasta and cheese and mushrooms.

 

This is what Wikipedia says about the history of vegetarianism:
"The earliest records of (lacto) vegetarianism come from ancient India and ancient Greece in the 6th century BCE. In both instances the diet was closely connected with the idea of nonviolence towards animals (called ahimsa in India) and was promoted by religious groups and philosophers.

“ Indian emperor Ashoka asserted protection to fauna: "Twenty-six years after my coronation various animals were declared to be protected — parrots, mainas, aruna, ruddy geese, wild ducks, nandimukhas, gelatas, bats, queen ants, terrapins, boneless fish, vedareyaka, gangapuputaka, sankiya fish, tortoises, porcupines, squirrels, deer, bulls, okapinda, wild asses, wild pigeons, domestic pigeons and all four-footed creatures that are neither useful nor edible. Those nanny goats, ewes and sows which are with young or giving milk to their young are protected, and so are young ones less than six months old. Cocks are not to be caponized, husks hiding living beings are not to be burnt and forests are not to be burnt either without reason or to kill creatures. One animal is not to be fed to another." —Edicts of Ashoka, Fifth Pillar ”

Following the Christianisation of the Roman Empire in late antiquity, vegetarianism practically disappeared from Europe. Several orders of monks in medieval Europe restricted or banned the consumption of meat for ascetic reasons, but none of them eschewed fish. It re-emerged during the Renaissance, becoming more widespread in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1847, the first vegetarian society was founded in the United Kingdom; Germany, the Netherlands, and other countries followed. The International Vegetarian Union, a union of the national societies, was founded in 1908. In the Western world, the popularity of vegetarianism grew during the 20th century as a result of nutritional, ethical, and more recently, environmental and economic concerns."

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