I like to get the scans just right, and often the words won't come. Then the poem has to be abandoned.

Sometimes a poem will take on a life of its own, and you don't know when it's going to end.

Two in my book (In Defence of Egyptian Daddies and A Lake in Massachusetts - about the longest place name in America, Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagunggamaugg) took four months each to write.

But it's all worth it when you get comments like this one that arrived today:

John’s poetry is a powerful antidote for pain, which I can personally vouch for.

 

I recently attended a poetry evening at Nelson Library at which John was performing.  I was in intense pain due to my rheumatoid arthritis, and was considering having to leave.

 

The pain was so bad I had beads of sweat on my forehead, and didn't know how I was going to cope. I had an overwhelming urge to dig my nails into my friend’s leg to relieve some of the pain.

 

However, once John started telling his funny stories about the English language and reading his hilarious poetry, I began laughing so much that I had a huge reduction in my pain level, which was amazing and wonderful.

 

“Poetry for the people, poetry for the pain.”

 

Margaret A. Fearn, Nelson

I rang Margaret to thank her.  She's had rheumatoid arthritis for 47 years.

It's in her bones, lungs, joints, muscles - everywhere. Yet she has an extremely positive attitude to life - and writes poetry! 

It's a great feeling knowing I made a difference for a short time. It makes me want to work in hospitals and hospices.

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Gunnar Nelson er ekkert að grínast. Þetta skrifaði Matt Thornton á síðu sinni, en hann hefur þjálfað  Forrest Griffin, Randy Couture og Dan Henderson. Færsluna skrifaði hann  til að undirstrika hversu lítið Nelsoninn er að grínast.

Gunnar Nelson soundly defeated his Brazilian BJJ black belt opponent in a cage fight in Denmark to maintain his undefeated MMA record.

Friday was a busy day including interviews with French miscrients Nelson and then later in the afternoon catching up with The View. Thanks to Alex and Tash at Scruffy Bird for their help with that. Tomorrow it's lunchtime in the park with Of Montreal, which I am really looking forward too. So plenty to come this week, thanks for reading.

Read "The Nelson Mail - The Nelson Mail"

"World famous Spanish tenor José Carreras was available to perform at next year's Opera in the Park in Nelson, but the budget would not stretch that far, musical director Pete Rainey says."

José Carreras will be performing in New Zealand also on January 31st 2009:

José Carreras, Hastings, 31 January 2009

Elephant Hill

Over the next week or so there will be exciting interviews with the likes of veteran ivory tinkler Ben Folds, a conversation with Scottish noiseniks The View, a pre Ting Tings support slot interrogation with Fight Like Apes, a little laisse faire with french scenesters Nelson and a good old chin wag with Of Montreal.

There will also be record reviews for Rose Kemp, o'death, Windy & Carl and Steve Gullicks fantastic Tenebrous Lair. Incidentally Steve's been playing guitar for Soulsavers who frankly had the best record I heard last year!

On top of all this though is the clearly surreal possibility of a chat with Welsh lothario Tom Jones... apparently back with a new seriousness. All knickers to be thrown should be forwarded to.......

jx

Over the next month the major parties must temper the usual promises to perform better than the other lot with explanations of what they intend to do so that New Zealand can best weather this economic storm and the extended period of recovery to come. The time for election bribes is over. The choice is not so much between old hands and new brooms as in electing a government that will pull parties together to soberly guide the country through hard times.

The Press:

Clark has said this election will be one of trust. If this is so, then the question for voters will be who do you trust in the turbulent world we now face? With these tax cuts, and with some detail of its longer-term economic plans, National has placed its cards on the table. It has produced figures to show that its plans are fiscally responsible. Voters must decide whether Key and his colleagues can be trusted to deliver on them, or whether Labour can be trusted to manage difficult times as well as good ones.

The Timaru Herald: 

AS the economic news darkens by the day, voters' thinking towards the election should also be changing. This should not be an election with any emphasis on such relatively trivial issues as the anti-smacking legislation, electoral spending, Winston Peters, the fate of the Maori seats, or how Helen Clark and John Key look. The vital issue is who should lead New Zealand through the economic storms ahead.

. . . But has Labour's economic management been that flash? It is easy to sail in the fair weather that the New Zealand economy has enjoyed over the last nine years. Dr Cullen has not been exposed to a financial storm. And voters told that their tax cuts pose a risk to the economy will wonder why they didn't benefit through the good times.

. . .There is little left in the budget pot over the next three years for grandiose plans, and parties that make such promises should be treated with disdain. Now is not the time to throw open the public purse for other than essential spending.

Who do we trust? The party which got us into this mess, or the one with a plan to stimulate economic growth which is the best way to get us out of it?

Ler artigo completo aqui.

The latest development in the case that is truly entitled Mental Madge Knox and Almighty Peter Allard and others v the Country and People of Barbados and others is the cross-examinations that are scheduled to take place in Barbados within the next few weeks. Some of the defendants, including the Country of Barbados have filed a motion objecting to the Ontario courts having jurisdiction in this matter. In support of this motion, certain defendants have filed affidavits and the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure provide that opposing counsel can cross-examine the affiants on their affidavits.

Counsel for the plaintiff, Nelson, tried (and failed) to show that all cross-examinations ought to be carried out in Ontario, on the insulting basis that Barbados (and even Toronto) were not safe for him, his staff, his family and Barbados resident and terminated-for-cause low-level lecturer at Cave Hill, John Knox. In support of the failed application, the plaintiff placed before the Ontario court (and I attach) subsequently discredited security reports by OBN Securities (attached as OBN1 and OBN2) and Global Risk International Inc. (attached as GRI Inc 1, GRI Inc 2 and GRI Inc 3). I post them, not because there is any merit in them, because there isn't - but so that the BU family can refer to them if needed. How many of you and how many of our many repeat visitors recognize Barbados from these so-called security reports?

In denying the plaintiff's application for, among other things, an order that cross-examinations should take place in Canada Justice Bryan Shaughnessy addressed the matter of the scope of the cross-examinations and made certain Orders. I repeat them here as follows:

DEFENDANTS' MOTIONS FOR DIRECTIONS

[104]     Counsel for the defendants bring a motion for directions and to which counsel for the Plaintiff, with a few exceptions, agreed.

[105]     Counsel for the Plaintiff and the defendants had an opportunity to review a proposed draft Order at the hearing of this matter. They have agreed (save and except paragraphs 4 and 5 of the Order detailed below) to the following terms:

1) The cross-examinations upon the affidavits delivered in support of the Defendants' motions to contest the jurisdiction of the Ontario Court is limited to questions relating to the proper subject matter of the said motions, and in particular that:

(a)   Such cross-examination will be limited to matters relevant to the Defendant's motions to set aside service ex-juris, or permanently stay the action, on the grounds that this Court lacks jurisdiction with respect to the matter or, alternatively or in addition, Ontario is not a forum conveniens; and

(b) without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the said cross-examinations shall not touch upon matters concerning the merits of the action, but must be limited to issues relative to jurisdiction simpliciter, juridicial advantage, natural justice, due process, public policy, fairness and forum non-conveniens, those being:

(i)  in the case of jurisdiction:

1.  the connection between the forum and the plaintiff's claim;

2.  the connection between the forum and the defendant;

3.  unfairness to the defendant in assuming jurisdiction;

4.  unfairness to the plaintiff in not assuming jurisdiction;

5.  involvement of other parties in the lawsuit;

6.  the Court's willingness to recognize and enforce an extra-provincial judgment rendered on the same jurisdictional basis;

7.  whether the case is interprovincial or international;

8.  comity and standards of jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement prevailing elsewhere.

(ii) and in the case of forum non-coveniens:

1. the location of the majority of the parties;

2. the location of key witnesses and evidence;

3. contractual provisions that specify applicable law or accord jurisdiction;

4. avoidance of a multiplicity of proceedings;

5. the applicable law and its weight in comparison to the factual questions to be decided;

6. geographical factors suggesting the natural forum; and

7. whether declining jurisdiction would deprive the plaintiff of a legitimate juridicial advantage available in the domestic Court.

2) It is the Order of this Court that the cross-examinations be videotaped at the expense of the parties making the request.

3) All reply affidavits on the jurisdictional motion are to be delivered within 30 days of the release of these Reasons.

4) The cross-examination of the Barbados affiants in Barbados (excluding John Knox) will be arranged by Counsel for the parties and will not exceed 6 days in total length of time.

5) For each of the other non-resident affiants including John Knox, the cross-examinations will not exceed one day for each affiant.

6) Notices for examinations will not call for documents that go beyond the scope of this Order or that go to the merit of this action.

7) Mr. McKenzie will have the option to decide whether Mr. Knox is cross-examined in Barbados or Toronto.

This Order did not please counsel for Nelson, the goat named K. William McKenzie (Little Billy) and he has been doing all he can since to try to turn what is a cross-examination on affidavits sworn in a motion relating to jurisdiction, into an examination for discovery (that would take place only in the highly unlikely event that the Ontario courts decide that they have jurisdiction). So you got to axe the question. If Little Billy is so sure he got a case and Ontario has jurisdiction, why he don wait for he chance? Does he accuse the learned Canadian judge of judicial bias?

It appears that Little Billy knows full well that Ontario does not have jurisdiction, so he has to push for examinations for discovery so that he can try his best to get something....anything....to re-file the case in another country. So Little Billy is now trying to get everybody to agree to, as Shaughnessy J. puts it, putting the cart before the horse.

So here are the issues that are being squabbled over:

1.         VENUE IN BARBADOS FOR CROSS-EXAMINATIONS

Defense counsel has written to Little Billy asking him that as Little Billy himself has endorsed the Barbados Hilton through Alan Bell's "security report" posted above, that Little Billy book the Hilton for the cross-examinations. Naturally, look to Little Billy to try, desperately, to twist this -  in which attempt he fools no one but himself and other goats. He replies in a letter dated September 18, 2008 (See LBG Let Sept 18):

"The irony of your pedantic letter is enticing. You seek now to rely upon that which you earlier denounced. If you are content to rely on Mr. Bell's entire report, I would be supportive, but attempting to excerpt single passages ignores the overriding concerns that have faced us as we made the arrangements.

Your comment "There is clearly much more going on than meets the eye" is presumably directed at the non-disclosure by the defendants as to the ownership of the Hilton. You speak of the Hilton as being "neutral ground" and we have recently discovered that is not correct. The hotel is owned by a company, Needham's Point, owned and controlled by the Government of Barbados. This fact alone creates a direct and insurmountable conflict of interest that makes it unacceptable. Under these circumstances, neither can we stay there, nor can we conduct examinations there........."

I have come to the conclusion that Little Billy is of mixed blood. One half only is goat and the other half is jackass. Because you know where he suggests the examination be held as being neutral ground? The conference room at INN CHAMBERS, the head of which is none other than our old friend, Alair Shepherd who is representing Mental Madge in the action, so can hardly be claimed to be neutral.

Also, correct me if I am wrong, but Little Billy's client relies for standing on the claim that it is the owner of Madge Knox's shares in Kingsland. Alair (better known as "Lilli Marlene") must even now be preparing to go into court January 21^st to defend Madge against an action for fraud that, if successful (and it looks to me like it will be) will see any transfers or charging of Madge's shares set aside and those shares handed to the late Colin Deane's estate to sell - as many as is necessary in settlement of its costs and charging order against Madge. So Lilly Marlene is trying to stave off an action in the courts which, if it succeeds, leaves Nelson without the necessary standing to bring their case at all. BUT ACCORDING TO LITTLE BILLY, THE HILTON IS NOT NEUTRAL, BUT LILLY MARLENE'S CHAMBERS ARE???!!!

2. TO VIDEOTAPE OR NOT TO VIDEOTAPE, THAT IS THE QUESTION.

Defense counsel then tries to get agreement that all the cross-examinations should be videotaped. Little Billy agrees, but then doesn't. Little Billy cannot seem to bring himself to join other counsel in choosing a firm to carry out the videotaping on behalf of all. And as we know, Barbados has lots of firms who are very familiar with the whole process. Little Billy does not want to hire professionals, however. Oh no, he himself wants to be able to set up his camcorder to feed the video on to his hard drive so that it can be duplicated and copied and, although he doesn't say so, edited so that it can be carried by Keltruth and the other Knox mouthpiece run by Jane Goddard, BFP - in an edited AND SUPPLEMENTED form. So Little Billy apparently thinks that the rest of the world just came down in the last shower of rain. Here is the relevant portion of Little Billy' letter of September 19 2009 (LBG Let Sept 19) and reply from defense counsel (Def C Let Sept 22)

3.            ORDER OF CROSS-EXAMINATIONS

It appears that Little Billy does not want to provide any order or schedule for cross-examinations which have to be completed, as you will see above, within 6 days in Barbados. He states that all those to be cross-examined must hold themselves available at his whim for all six days. So each morning, all the people to be cross-examined troop down to the place where the examinations are to take place - FOR SIX DAYS. Little Billy states that he will start with "David Simmons" but does not know when he will get round to the rest (ill mannered little half-bred goat thinking he can insult our country by not giving our citizens their titles - but there again, why not since his own supporter, Almighty Allard, has taken the same position through his two blog mouthpieces, Keltruth and the Jane Goddard-run BFP). So, if the Prime Minister of Barbados is to be examined, he must hold himself ready at the convenience of Little Billy for six days - and forget bout he job. Attached is the relevant portion of Little Billy's letter of September 19 2008 called LBG re CJ.

And the Barbados press considers that this insulting behaviour is not worth reporting and instead chooses to hide behind the completely out-of-order excuse of sub judice? PRESUMABLY LIKE THEY THINK THE CANADIAN PRESS WOULD DO IF CIRCUMSTANCES WERE REVERSED!!!! Father, help thy children, cause the Nation, the Advocate and VOB sure as hell aren't going to. Little Billy and Almighty Allard could arrange a Sidney Burnett Alleyne expedition to take Barbados over militarily and the Nation, Advocate and VOB would have their heads- or whatever part of them they store their few brains in - firmly buried in the sand at Cattlewash and not even notice, or of they did notice, not tell anybody bout it cause it did a secret.

4.           EXAMINATIONS FOR DISCOVERY

It seems that Barbados' system of discovery is deemed unacceptable/non-existent by the great experts on Barbadian law in Ontario. Indeed, the suggestion is that Barbados does not have any system of discovery - which is news to me and will be surprising to members of our legal fraternity and to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The people who are debating this, all Canadian lawyers, are not, so far as I have been able to discover, members of the Barbados Bar or officers of the Barbados courts nor have they right of audience before Her Majesty the Queen in council. So, they lack the necessary professional standing to deliver such an opinion?

The most disturbing aspect of this whole issue now is the stated intent by Canadian counsel to withhold details of what is going on from the people of Barbados IN IMITATION OF THE BARBADOS PRESS. These Canadian counsel complain that the blogs have reproduced and posted correspondence in this matter - which is very true - but SO WHAT? Barbados and its people are parties to this action and you, Mr and Ms. Canadian lawyer, are having your inflated fees paid by us. Therefore, with no respect whatsoever, your claim that your duty as an officer of the Canadian court gives you the right to withhold information from the people whom you represent and who are paying your accounts is b*******. Next, please consider that this is not a matter involving national security nor any criminal investigation and the documents that you are seeking to withhold do not pose a potential threat to the lives and freedom of Bajans (or Canadians), nor do they contribute in any way to disrespecting the courts (of either country)  - therefore kindly do not try to treat us as children - because we will find out what is happening - one way or another. No sort of official secrets legislation can possibly apply here and if a country is sued, its citizens must steadfastly demand the right to be informed.

5.          VIDEOTAPING

HOWEVER, I agree on the matter of stringent security for the videotapes of cross-examinations. I do not think these should be released outside the confines of the court until after the case is determined - but when that happens, they MUST be released. I also believe firmly that these videotapes should be kept under lock and key by one party only and copies should NOT be sent to all counsel - instead if counsel requires copies, written transcripts should be provided them - and me and I undertake if I get my hands on copies to post them on BU.

I FIRMLY believe that the release of the videotapes and the opportunities given to ill-wishers of our country (headed by the Knox family and Almighty Allard) to tamper with these tapes, would constitute a national emergency and a considerable threat to the well-being of Barbados. We have seen how a tape recording of a conversation between Fishy Heaslet and Peter Simmons can be commented on for weeks on end by two blogs (namely the Knox/Allard-controlled Barbados Free Press and Keltruth), but never actually produced for people to read and form their own opinions. Once BU published the transcripts, the inherent lack of threat of violence that Keltruth and BFP claimed was there was revealed to be a figment of the agendas (not imaginations) of Keltruth and BFP. Recently, using half truths and outright lies, Keltruth, supported by Jane Goddard aka BFP, has written to each and every delegate to the UN trying to negatively impact a speech by our new prime minister and to embarrass him before the UN. Therefore, I have no doubt whatsoever that if Keltruth and BFP ever got hold of the videotapes of the cross-examinations, they would not post them accurately. Instead, using the mega-millions of Peter Allard, they would edit them and insert statements  into them that were never made, in an effort to achieve their agenda, the ruin and disgrace of Barbados. In my view, this is tantamount to a declaration of economic war.

Keltruth itself has provided a precedent for this accusation of probable tampering with things electronic. I only just got to the bottom of that claim by Keltruth of judicial wrongdoing by Greenidge J. in excluding an audiotape that Mental Madge tried to introduce. I see that John Knox and Jane Goddard secretly and surreptitiously recorded a conversation they and their mother, Mental Madge, had with an unsuspecting Mr Richard Cox back in 1998. It was not a complete or formally identified recording and, when they tried to introduce it into evidence before Greenidge J., they failed to provide the court with actual copies of the recording OR transcripts of same. Instead, they quoted selected portions ONLY to the court and then complained recently that Greenidge J. threw it out and refused to consider it. Now explain to me why would a judge accept selected statements in an affidavit purporting to be supported by an audiotape that is not produced along with a full transcript?

I had promised the BU family that I would do my best to provide the videotapes once the examinations are completed. I have reconsidered and even if I were able to get copies of these, which I am advised seems extremely doubtful, I would consider that I was as much a traitor to my homeland if I posted them as Madge Knox, John Knox, Jane Goddard and Kathy Davis are. I have no doubt that Keltruth and BFP and Allard and the Knox family and Little Billy would immediately "doctor" and falsify the videotapes and publish them as gospel truth on the worldwide web. I believe that we are dealing with completely immoral liars in the Knox family and Almighty Allard.

Once again, Little Billy is carrying on about his safety in Barbados and once again I urge all Bajans to run true to our great national characteristic and to treat Little Billy and his staff and family and friends as we would ourselves and our families and to look out for and after their safety and protection, so the falseness of their portrayal of we Bajans as violent, ignorant savages will be apparent to all. We must smile and laugh a lot every time we see them. And we must bid them a fond farewell when they, safe and sound and tanned, return to Canada with their duty-free Barbados rum. They may never visit us again. After all, as Little Billy has been advised, Canada (except for the Holiday Inn in Barrie, Ontario) is a very dangerous place and goat meat is much in demand there.

As for the "legitimate press", I want to start economic sanctions against them. As of today, I will not be purchasing the Advocate or the Nation nor will I tune in to VOB. Instead, I will read the blogs and subscribe to the Official Gazette (the Government could probably use the money).

I have just read Keltruth. The headline, which apparently is the first of a series, is: Why Crooks Love Bearer Shares. Well, Keltruth does not seem to really understand the subject and apparently has very limited knowledge on how to spot bearer shares. For instance, the shares of Kingsland Estates Limited and Mental Madge owns are NOT bearer shares, but common shares. However, Mental Madge has gone and transferred her shares fraudulently and removed the share certificates from Barbados to Canada. If these WERE bearer shares, then there might be a problem, but they are NOT bearer shares, so the courts in Barbados can simply order Kingsland to cancel those share certificates and re-issue them. In fact the only reason that Keltruth has brought up the subject of SRLs is because it hopes that, like it, visitors to Barbados will not really know what these are or that practically every country in the world has them with the same laws and conditions attached as in Barbados. So Keltruth hopes to suggest that SRLs are peculiar to Barbados and its violent, criminal population and government. No need to actually read the article on Keltruth. It is, as always, rather like what we wash out of the pig sty/goat pen every morning.

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]]> http://emmacollingwood.wordpress.com/?p=78 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:06:18 +0000 emmacollingwood http://emmacollingwood.sv.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/reminder-charity-auction-ends-today/ The charity auction on ebay for the Morpeth Lions Club Flood Fund will end today. There's still time to place your bids! Many thanks to all those who have supported the auction.

OUR WEBSITE WITH INFORMATION ON THE CHARITY

AUCTION I: ORIGINAL GEORGIAN ROYAL NAVY GHOST STORY BY EMMA COLLINGWOOD

Be the first person to read “Last Service”, one of four Georgian Royal Navy Ghost Stories from the upcoming book by Emma Collingwood! Not a printout, mind you - the tale comes handwritten (in ink, of course!) on 18th century-style, handmade, heavy cream-coloured paper (courtesy Museum for Paper, Writing and Printing). The paper alone has a value of ~ £ 30.00.

“Last Service”, set aboard HMS Victory, honours the tradition of the classic 18th and 19th century ghost stories as well as the memory of the men who served on her.

AUCTION II: ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATION BY AMANDINE DE VILLENEUVE

The drawing shows Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood and his dog “Bounce”. The technique is “ink and wash”; umbra-coloured, waterproof ink on heavy, cream-coloured handmade paper (60% cotton, 40% flax, ages well). This is the original illustration to go with “Last Service”.

Many people in Morpeth have to rebuild their lives from scratch. Every bit helps, so please, do spread the word, post a link to either the website or this entry here in communities where it fits, herald the news, shout it from the roof and/or the fighting top. Thank you so much in advance for your support!

With the festive season just around the corner, this is a wonderful chance to get a very special present for that Age of Sail aficionado in your life.

We managed to drum up £77! Woohoo! Thanks so much, everybody! :-D

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Can I get the little boy from The Simpsons to go HaHa? Just once?

Když jsem se po Victory procházel, taky mě zaujalo, jak je prostorná. Je pravda, že jediná větší loď, kterou jsem předtím viděl zblízka a zevnitř byl HMS Belfast, což je samozřejmě podstatně novější křižník, ovšem taky plavidlo poněkud nižší třídy než vlajková loď válečného loďstva.

Pro zajímavost, ještě pár obrázků.


Dělová paluba, respektive jedna její polovina


část skladu střelného prachu, pokud jsem pochopil z audio průvodce, měli to
velmi dobře technicky vyřešené, aby hned tak nevyletěli do vzduchu, podrobnosti si ale nepamatuju ;-)


Admirálská kabina. Nelson, a vlastně i kapitán Victory Hardy, měli na palubě docela solidní byteček. Před jídelnou na obrázku jsou ještě dvě menší místnosti, za nimi jídelna a vzadu ještě jakýsi salon či co.


Nelsonova postel se od těch, kde spali námořníci lišila hlavně tím, že byla poněkud naparáděnější.



Jediné místo na Victory, kde se nemá fotit je shrine na místě, kde Nelson zemřel. No dobře, tak jsem se zachoval přibližně slušně, nefotil to celé s obrazem zachycujícm scénu umírajícího Nelsona obklopeného důstojníky jeho vlajkvé lodi, jen jsem uštípl obrázek pamětní plakety.


Jeden ze svých slavných odvážných výpadů v čele naloďovací skupiny na nepřátelské plavidlo vedl Nelson s výkřikem "For glory or Westmister abbey". Jak víme, slávy dosáhl mnohokrát. Ovšem když dostoupal k jejímu vrcholu a konci u Trafalgaru nečekalo ho po návratu do vlasti Westminsterské opatství, ale katedrála sv. Pavla. Nejsem si úplně jist tím, že
tenhle sud je zrova tím slavným sudem brandy ve kterém padlého velitele bitvou notně pocuchaná Victory převážela do vlasti. Jisté ovšem je, že vybledlá látka v rámu na zdi je kouskem z britské vlajky, která pokrývala jeho rakev při slavnostním pohřbu v Londýně, kterou pak námořníci z Nelsonovy lodi a flotily roztrhali na malé kousíčky, aby měli na admirála nějakou památku.

V historických docích v Portsmouth he toho k vidění opravdu hodně. Vedle Victory je to ještě samozřejmě HMS Warrior, první válečné plavidlo s celokovoým pláštěm.

Mě ovšem ještě víc zaujala třetí z válečných lodí, které tam jsou k vidění.


Mary Rose. Pýcha válečného loďstva Jindřicha VIII. Plně naložená a obsazená se, s celou posádkou a nákladem, potopila právě nedaleko Portsmouth na cestě do boje.

Po těžko představitelné a desítky let trvající práci archeologů, potápěčů a techniků se Britům podařilo vrak vyprostit z pod nánosů ze dna a vyzdvihnout. Obrázek, který jsem ulovil je sice technicky mizerný a všelijak klame, le pro ilustraci snad stačí. Stačí si uvědomit, že zachráněná část trupu není o mnoho menší respektive nižší, než třeba Victory a že trupem se díváme dolů z výšky několikapatrového domu.

Špatně je tam vidět proto, že lod zatím prochází a ještě nějaký čas bude procházet konservací. Zatím dřevo kropí roztokem na bázi ve vodě rozpustných vosků s tím,že do asi dvou let počítají se začátkem postupného vysoušení nakonzervovaného dřeva.
Konečným cílem nadšenců je postavit pro loď novou expoziční halu, kam by se vešlo i muzeum s věcmi, které se již dříve podařilo z odi vynést. Dlužno podotknout že už stávající expozixe přibližující osud lodi a život posádky na její paluběje výborná a velmi zajímavá.

A abychom měli dějiny vojenského námořnictva celé stojí za to ještě si dopřát vyhlídkovou plavbu po přístavu.


Nejspíš potkáte hned několik současných válečných plavidel Royal Navy. Tohle je zrovna letadlová loď HMS Ark Royal.



Jestliže v takovém Cardiffu či Bristolu je dnes přístav spíše promenádou s obchody, kavárnami a zábavními atrakcemi, POrtsmouth je pořád důležitým obchodním a dopravním přístavem i základnou válečného námořnictva.




Tu a tam to vypadá, že se přístav od dob, kdy tu úředničil otec Charlese Dickense. Spisovatelův rodný dům mimochodem stojí kdesi na půl cesty mezi středem města a přístavem.



Ale ať už se na Portsmouth, přinejmenším od moře, které ho živí, díváte odkudkoliv vidíte, že voda, historie i přítmnost se tam docela dobře snáší a že město pořád ještě nechystá ani skasat plachty, ani spouštět kotvy.

If you're in Nelson on Friday 10 October, you're warmly invited to For the Love of Words, a triple book launch-cum-celebration of wordcraft.

The idea came from poet, children's author, social commentator and organiser extraordinaire Amy Brooke of Summersounds Symposium fame.

Amy's got a poetry book to launch, Deep Down Things. 

And she very generously thought, why not make it double as the South Island launch of I Think The Clouds Are Cotton Wool - Rhymes Committed by John Ansell?

(Which is good of her, since the North Island launch was five years ago.)

Add to the mix Nelson poet Mark Raffills, who is christening his latest volume Loved, Mis-loved and Loved Again, and it promises to be a revealing and  'edutaining' night for word lovers.

Nelson Library, 5.30 - 7.00pm.

No charge. (Thanks to sponsor Nelson Institute.)

All ages welcome.

Matsutake and Lobster mushrooms.

Corey and Katie are both Vancouver restaurant industry veterans (Corey, Parkside FOH and Katie, Aurora BOH). I've been served by Corey a couple of times and also met him at Katie's family BBQ competition (the best BBQ competition in the world) in Merritt. Corey responded to a request I made for readers to share any pictures of what they have harvested this year, whether from their own little plots, or the forest. From Corey's email:

"I don't know if this qualifies as my 'harvest', but since moving to Nelson BC a couple of weeks ago, Katie and I have been out foraging. These were taken on the first day we foraged, and came from beside a creek, about 30 seconds from our front door. Since then, I've got lots more. Sold a few for fun to a buyer in Kaslo. I made a grand total of $8! I found another couple of pounds yesterday and brought them to a dinner party. As for life in the interior it is wonderful. It's so beautiful around here right now with all the leaves turning red and yellow".

I'm jealous. I went foraging twice this year, once a great triumph, and the other time a big dud (completely shut out). Thanks Corey and Katie! People, keep sending your harvest pictures!

More pictures below......

Check out this crazy video! Mushrooms are serious business.

Cream dream.

Of course you didn't get the new 3D Dashboard Update No one did the maintenance wasn't going to deliver anything new at this present time and has been stated on Major Nelson's Blog as well as his Twitter post. The maintenance was for to get the service ready for the major fall update. :wink:

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