that's My World, Eighth March, IWD Video.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!
As long as women are discriminated against especially in Africa, Asia and for religious reasons, we need to celebrate International Women's Day on 8th March.As long as there is male superiority in our world and women abused, stoned to death because they have been raped, we need a special day to support women. As long as women are treated like inferior creatures , subject to abuse and forced to marry the men their fathers choose for them. As long as women are not treated with respect we need IWD! Men and women are equal in my country, thank God! And in all other countries in the Northern Hemisphere.Thanks for visiting. Last year a man asked if Women's day was still necessary! Well the video answers that question.


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Bench of the Week, Sky Watch, Guernsey,

 
 
 

Please click on photos to see more details. See also the slide of my previous post!

After a long walk through the beautiful forest, you see in the header, where the bluebells were in full bloom, we arrived at Fermain Bay on Guernsey. We had a nice glass of ice coffee, which consists of coffee, sugar, a lot of ice cream and whipped cream. While we were sitting there on one of the many benches, we saw the fog coming in from the sea. The whole sunny place was suddenly transformed into a sinister misty country,some people got up and left the area, for it was getting cold, and in the distance we could hear the muffled sound of the foghorn.


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RuneE of Visual Norway
began this informal meme on "Bench of the Week". Please visit his site for other participants. PERBS has a whole site dedicated to benches called "For the Love of Benches", which is going on for two years and every day she posts a new bench.Her friend Malyss. has shown more than 600 benches on a site called "benchesonmyway".

ABC Wednesday, G for Guernsey,

In May 2006, my sister, her husband and I went to spend a week's holiday on Guernsey.We walked a lot and spoke to many islanders, who told us interesting facts about Guernsey. The island is small but has a long and eventful history.

Although Guernsey is geographically closer to the Normandy coast than to the south coast of England it is a dependency of the British Crown.

So why does Guernsey remain loyal to Britain, rather than France her closest neighbour?

It all began in 933 AD when the Channel Islands became part of the Norman Realm. In 1066, the Duke of Normandy landed his army in Sussex and became William I of England. The Channel Islands, however, remained part of the Duchy of Normandy and continued to be governed as such.

When Continental Normandy was lost in 1204 the Channel Islands remained loyal to the King of England as the King promised to rule the islands as though he was the Duke of Normandy (i.e. observing the Duchy’s laws, customs and liberties). This arrangement has been confirmed in charters of successive sovereigns that have secured for the islands their own judiciaries and freedom from the process of the English Courts. Indeed the Islands are independent in all matters with the exception of international representation and defence for which the United Kingdom is responsible.

The islands were the focal point of strife between England and France for many years due to their allegiance to England. At times, the French raided the islands and gained temporary footholds and, as a consequence, there are castles and fortresses around Guernsey that were originally built as a protection against invaders.

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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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Bench of the Week, Weekend Reflections, Australia Queensland,

These photos show part of the Esplanada(see previous post) in Cairns. You can sit there, walk and have a meal or admire the seabirds. For children ( and also adults!!) there is a pool where they can paddle on warm days.

 
 
 
 

Click to see more details. The two bottom photos show the very shallow pool.

These photos were taken in Cairns, North Queensland, Australia, where my daughter, her son, his father and I spent some days in 2008. We were on our way to my other daughter in Cooktown, 360 kms more northwards.


RuneE of Visual Norway
began this informal meme on "Bench of the Week". Please visit his site for other participants. PERBS has a whole site dedicated to benches called "For the Love of Benches", which is going on for two years and every day she posts a new bench.Her friend Malyss. has shown more than 600 benches on a site called "benchesonmyway".


Weekend Reflections was started on 27 September 2009, by James. You can join this meme at some time during the weekend. Just post your photo and go to James to tell him that you are on, or click on the logo in the sidebar.This meme is created for any type of reflection.

ABC Wednesday, E for Esplanade in Cairns

Click to enlarge these photos from the Esplanade in Cairns. See the seabirds!!

A notable feature of the Cairns esplanade is a swimming lagoon with adjoining barbecue areas. A boardwalk allows pedestrians and cyclists to move along the foreshore from the lagoon in a sustainable manner See Wikipedia.

Click on photo to see more details!

With thanks to Denise Nesbitt, who created ABC.For more interesting ABC posts click on the logo in the sidebar or Here. This week we are looking for words beginning with E.

Happy Valentine's Day

 

ABC Wednesday D for Dreamtime

Australia - Aboriginal Dreamtime: " All peoples of our world have a concept of how the world was formed. The Aboriginals believe that, in the beginning, the earth was featureless, flat and grey. There were no mountain ranges, no rivers, no billabongs, no birds or animals - in fact not one living thing. Then long, long ago came the Dreamtime. The Dreamtime was a time when giant creatures rose up out of the grey plains where they had been slumbering for countless ages. These mythical Beings looked like animals or plants or insects, but they behaved just like humans. They wandered across the vast grey wastes, digging for water and searching for food and as they searched, because of their giant size, they made huge ravines and rivers in the land. Thus the world took on the shape it has today."

In Cooktown there is a great example of Aboriginal art. It's called the Milbi Wall. This is created by the inhabitants of Cooktown and the Aboriginal compound of Hopevale, under the direction of the Hopevale artist Roy McIvor, who is an uncle of my daughter's ex- husband.Milbi is the Guugu Yimithirr (local Aboriginal language) word for story. The wall is meant to be part of the reconciliation project and a memorial to show history from an Aboriginal point of view.

The wall concists of three parts. The first part tells about the Dreamtime, the second part about the first contact with Europeans and later Asians, these contacts were disastrous for the Aborigines, then the third part shows us the present time which hopefully promises reconciliation of differences.The stories are told in beautiful ceramic tiles.The Wall is built right at the spot where, in 1770, Captain James Cook and his crew first set foot.

On top of the wall lies the Rainbow Serpent, one of the creator spirits of the indigenous people of Australia.


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Bench of the Week in Cairns

 

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In one of the shopping centres of Cairns( see post below), we found this colourful bench.A piece of art perhaps? The photo was taken by my Dutch daughter

RuneE of Visual Norway
began this informal meme on "Bench of the Week". Please visit his site for other participants. PERBS has a whole site dedicated to benches called "For the Love of Benches", which is going on for two years and every day she posts a new bench.Her friend Malyss. has shown more than 600 benches on a site called "benchesonmyway".

ABC Wednesday, C for Cairns.

Click on photos to see more details. One of the hotels on the Esplanade.

When I arrive in Australia to see my daughter, we often stay at the "Gray Whale", a motel in Cairns, because Cooktown, where my daughter lives, is 360kms from Cairns, and I always arrive early in the morning.She meets me at the airport, we have breakfast and go to the motel or hotel.We do the same when I leave. Sometimes, however, we stay at a holiday resort (see slide).The two bottom photos are from the Esplanade.

Cairns is a regional city in Far North Queensland, Australia. The city itself was named after William Wellington Cairns (the then Governor of Queensland). It was formed to serve miners heading for the Hodgkinson River goldfield, but experienced a decline when an easier route was discovered from Port Douglas. It later developed into a railhead and major port for exporting sugar cane, gold, metals, minerals and agricultural products from surrounding coastal areas and the Atherton Tableland region.

The city is rapidly expanding, with a population of 122,731 at the 2006 census.Tourism is the largest income producer for the region, followed closely by the sugar industry.

Cairns is a popular travel destination for foreign tourists because of its tropical climate and proximity to many attractions. The Great Barrier Reef can be reached in less than an hour by boat. Daintree National Park and Cape Tribulation, about 130 km (81 mi) north of Cairns, are popular areas for experiencing a tropical rainforest. It is also a starting point for people wanting to explore Cooktown, Cape York Peninsula, and the Atherton Tableland.

The city has used its natural surroundings to its advantage, with the construction of several small theme parks for tourists. Among them are Rainforestation Nature Park, Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park, and Kuranda Skyrail Rainforest Cableway, which extends for 7.5 km (4.7 mi) over World Heritage rainforest.( see Wikipedia)

With thanks to Denise Nesbitt, who created ABC.For more interesting ABC posts click on the logo in the sidebar or Here. This week we are looking for words beginning with C.