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- Thin cakes called Crumpits, made from seeds of Polygonum aviculare L. (Knot Grass)
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- In Remembrance - Hiroshima bomb survivor Sunao Tsuboi dies at 96
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Quote - "The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by wanting more"’
Mon, 19/06/2023 - 12:57pm — CarolThe pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by wanting more
Chinese
Quote - "important enough to risk somebody else's"’
Fri, 16/06/2023 - 9:56am — Carol...few things are so important you would risk your life for them, but all sorts of things are important enough to risk somebody else’s life.
Chapter 12
The Bullet That Missed: (The Thursday Murder Club 3)
By Richard Osman
Quote - "The world is made up of our differences"’
Fri, 16/06/2023 - 9:36am — CarolI always thought people like us needed people like Raphaëlle to cope with certain situations but it is way more complex than that.
The world is made up of our differences. It needs people like us, who only see the coloured stains and not the landscape, and it needs people like Raphaëlle, who only see the landscape even if it sometimes leads them to lose their judgments. It is only when we are together that we can see the entirety of the picture. One cannot work without the other.
"Astrid Et Raphaelle" S02 E01
Quote - "Would I that he was not here now, but was then, than he never was here at all"’
Thu, 30/03/2023 - 10:59am — Carol"Would I that he was not here now, but was then, than he never was here at all’"
Freya North
Quote - "impulse towards good involves choice and is complicated, and the impulse towards bad is hideo’"
Sat, 10/12/2022 - 12:13pm — Carol"I mean to say that the impulse towards good involves choice and is
complicated, and the impulse towards bad is hideously simple and easy"
Maeve Brennan; ‘Talk of the Town’ for New Yorker
Quote - "We need to dispel the myth that empathy is ‘walking in someone else’s shoes.’"
Sat, 17/09/2022 - 1:33pm — Carol“We need to dispel the myth that empathy is ‘walking in someone else’s shoes.’ Rather than walking in your shoes, I need to learn how to listen to the story you tell about what it’s like in your shoes and believe you even when it doesn’t match my experiences..”
― Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience, 2021
Thin cakes called Crumpits, made from seeds of Polygonum aviculare L. (Knot Grass)
Mon, 15/08/2022 - 4:44pm — CarolCame across an early mention of Crumpets - in a herbarium !
Culinary uses of Polygonum aviculare L. (Knot Grass): 'The Seeds furnish a nutritious meal; it
is made into thin cakes called Crumpits.'
a small extract in a fascinating article by Jessica Shepherd, Natural History Research Assistant (St. Aubyn)
Bringing a herbarium to life at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
Quote - "True is such a twentieth-century concept. The question is, can I get you to believe it, can I get it repeated enough"
Fri, 08/04/2022 - 5:21am — Carol“True is such a twentieth-century concept. The question is, can I get you to believe it, can I get it repeated enough times to make it as good as true.”
—? The Golden House 2017
Quote - "It is a matter not so much of concealing as of withholding and what is withheld is not so much the truth as the facts"
Mon, 15/11/2021 - 2:00pm — Carol“It is a matter not so much of concealing as of withholding and what is withheld is not so much the truth as the facts.”
—cabinet secretary, Sir Burke Trend, 1963
The magazine Private Eye provoked panic in Whitehall when it identified C, the letter used to denote the head of MI6, hitherto secret papers released at the public record office yesterday [Wed 16 Feb 2000 01.44 GMT] reveal.
The
magazine broke existing media conventions by naming Sir Dick White as
C, standing for Chief, in a column by Claud Cockburn, in August 1963. In
a small paragraph headed "Note to foreign agents" he named Sir Dick as
the "head of what you so romantically term the British Secret Service".
In Remembrance - Hiroshima bomb survivor Sunao Tsuboi dies at 96
Thu, 28/10/2021 - 12:00am — CarolHiroshima atomic bomb survivor and nuclear disarmament activist Sunao Tsuboi died on October 24 at the age of 96, according to advocacy group, Nihon Hidankyo, the group of atomic bomb survivors he headed.
Sunao Tsuboi's experiences at Hiroshima
Tsuboi was 20 years old when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on his hometown on August 6, 1945. He was on his way to engineering school when the bomb hit, killing 140,000 people.
Three days later, a second nuclear bomb fell on Nagasaki, killing another 70,000 people. Japan formally surrendered on August 15.
"I suffered burns all over my body," Tsuboi said in 2016. "Naked, I tried to run away for about three hours on August 6 but finally could no longer walk."
He gained consciousness 40 days after the bombing, but he was so weak that he had to start by crawling. A part of his ear was gone because of the burns. Later, he developed cancer and other diseases.
