Read this, please, with an open heart. If you start feeling defensive, take a moment to reflect on why that is before returning to reading. I couldn’t NOT reblog this post, written by Miriam Schacht (RoteZora) re: the suggestion that white activists have been taking over from the indigenous people at the STANDING ROCK protest. …
Originally posted on Notes from the U.K.:
In last week’s post, I mentioned that York Minster had fired its volunteer bell ringers. It was a small part of the post, but the comments it provoked have been fascinating. So first—because, admit it, you don’t actually read every golden word I publish, although I can’t think…
This situation is getting quite serious and I urge all who read this to contact the President of the USA and show support for the Indigenous people and the Standing Rock call for action. It reminds me VERY MUCH of the news reels I saw in the sixties when the American government treat the black …
OCTOBER 25th … BALAKLAVA DAY. (a link to the ‘GUNFIRE’ Vlog) Amongst the cavalry regiments of the British Army…Hussars, Lancers, Dragoons, Light and Heavy, there is a proud tradition of celebrating /remembering the famous ‘CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE’ ..As immortalised by Alfred Lord Tennyson in his epic poem. MY first experience of ‘GUNFIRE’, a la ‘Balaklava Day, was on …
If you are a ‘watcher’ of the steelcityman vlogs on You Tube, you will no doubt have heard me saying, more than once, that I need new , better equipment … well, that day has arrived and I have replaced my trusty Nikon D3100 for a smaller, better, faster and altogether more super model to …
Here we are at the Northern General Hospital in the Steel City (Sheffield) … booked the wife in at 0700 hrs for a Cardio Inversion .. In short, the medics are going to induce a rapid heartbeat and then shock it back to normal with the Defibrillator/Pacemaker she has fitted. If it doesn’t work correctly …
An anti-fracking campaigner has been served with court papers during a tea party protest opposite Buckingham Palace. Source: Lancashire ‘Nana’ threatened with prison during Buckingham Palace protest … from an article by Ruth Hayhurst in the ‘Drill and Drop’ publication I’ve just caught up with this update of the Lancashire ‘Granny’s Tea Party Protest’ out side …
Originally posted on Pride's Purge:
A group of grandmothers in Lancashire have written an open letter to the Queen telling her their concerns about fracking. And from 2pm tomorrow (Tuesday) the nanas will be delivering the letter and having what they call Nana Tea outside Buckingham Palace. They assure they will be bringing their “best…
AGE AND VLOGGING…. ( a link to the ‘steelcityman’ Vlog #4 on You Tube ) Well.. What a torrid time of late … My dear wife, Christine, has been Very ill (Ventricular Tachycardia) culminating in a Cardiac arrest, but between the pacemaker/defibrillator she had fitted 4 years ago and the magnificent National Health Service we …
A Vlog and a Blog, done over several days from August 1st-4th 2016
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