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[Reynard]

I'm despairing at some of the language I'm seeing on facebook today regarding yesterday's events in Westminster. I don't post on political posts (or religious ones for that matter) as it's the easiest way to alienate people, but really...

As a keen student of 20th century history, I'm seeing uncomfortable parallels with times that saw several of my relatives (including my grandfather, twice) incarcerated in a gulag, military stockade or a concentration camp for their political views and personal principles. One was summarily executed without any sort of trial.

I despair, I really do. Even more so given that these are intelligent people who really should know better...

On the flip side, did you know that my grandfather (who was a prominent politician in pre-war Poland) got to know Lenin while they were incarcerated in a gulag? After their release, they went on holiday together - and I have the photos to prove it.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I'm despairing at some of the language I'm seeing on facebook today regarding yesterday's events in Westminster. I don't post on political posts (or religious ones for that matter) as it's the easiest way to alienate people, but really...

As a keen student of 20th century history, I'm seeing uncomfortable parallels with times that saw several of my relatives (including my grandfather, twice) incarcerated in a gulag, military stockade or a concentration camp for their political views and personal principles. One was summarily executed without any sort of trial.

I despair, I really do. Even more so given that these are intelligent people who really should know better...

A number of people I know here have expressed similar concerns.

On the flip side, did you know that my grandfather (who was a prominent politician in pre-war Poland) got to know Stalin while they were incarcerated in a gulag? After their release, they went on holiday together - and I have the photos to prove it.

That's a brilliant bit of family history, and far, far too interesting for Mundane News...

 

[Gravity Aided]

I'm despairing at some of the language I'm seeing on facebook today regarding yesterday's events in Westminster. I don't post on political posts (or religious ones for that matter) as it's the easiest way to alienate people, but really...

As a keen student of 20th century history, I'm seeing uncomfortable parallels with times that saw several of my relatives (including my grandfather, twice) incarcerated in a gulag, military stockade or a concentration camp for their political views and personal principles. One was summarily executed without any sort of trial.

I despair, I really do. Even more so given that these are intelligent people who really should know better...

On the flip side, did you know that my grandfather (who was a prominent politician in pre-war Poland) got to know Lenin while they were incarcerated in a gulag? After their release, they went on holiday together - and I have the photos to prove it.

Another reason I'm eternally grateful the best countries of Europe tossed my ancestors out when they got mouthy and inconvenient.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Another reason I'm eternally grateful the best countries of Europe tossed my ancestors out when they got mouthy and inconvenient.

Trouble is, it's sort of Hobson's Choice these days...

 

[Andy in Germany]

In other news, I'm cutting up spuds ready for dinner.

Also, I just put the salad spinner together upside down.

So there.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Quite true. Over here, we have a Senate Majority Leader who thinks it is just fine if the Russians interfere in our elections, and who would have ever thought they'd hear a Republican say that? And why their adherents would go along with this? They have all been drinking far too much of Mr. Murdochs' Kool-Aid, dispensed by his rightist fantasy factory, Fox News, which Trump would like to see as his state-run media. I think a lot of the more sane members of the electorate are getting tired of the mayhem.

 

[Reynard]

A number of people I know here have expressed similar concerns.

Whew, thank goodness I'm not the only one.

That's a brilliant bit of family history, and far, far too interesting for Mundane News...

My paternal grandfather was a fascinating character. I never knew him - he died 30 years before I was born - but I have all his papers and they really do make amazing reading.

 

[Reynard]

In other news, I'm cutting up spuds ready for dinner.

Also, I just put the salad spinner together upside down.

So there.

I had a very fine lunch; a beef and horseradish sandwich, some gruyere, two and a bowl of strawberries.

 

[Reynard]

Quite true. Over here, we have a Senate Majority Leader who thinks it is just fine if the Russians interfere in our elections, and who would have ever thought they'd hear a Republican say that? And why their adherents would go along with this? They have all been drinking far too much of Mr. Murdochs' Kool-Aid, dispensed by his rightist fantasy factory, Fox News, which Trump would like to see as his state-run media. I think a lot of the more sane members of the electorate are getting tired of the mayhem. View attachment 483449

I have a friend ( a Florida resident) who keeps apologising to me about the administration in the US...

 

[raleighnut]

Guess where I am:

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I'd say somewhere near Mablethorpe.

 

[13 rider]

Guess where I am:

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Leicester

I now where you were but won't spoil it for others guessing

 

[Andy in Germany]

Guess where I am:

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At the seaside?

 

[Reynard]

Right, time for a so kettle duly on.

Might have a smackerel of something with it as well.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I'd say somewhere near Mablethorpe.

Very close.

I know you are all desperate to know so I was in Skegness.

 

[Reynard]

Well, I have a and two shortbread fingers.

I have also decided that this is probably my best option for my archive:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Really-Use...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=Y1ER7ZX113GRN0CD2JFT

And with individual sections bound in report wallets - which gives me the flexibility to add and move items whenever necessary.

It's a shame I can't keep everything in one file anymore - it's lived in this one since 1992, and prior to that, three exercise books. But I just have too much stuff, and in the absence of bigger arch lever files i.e. with spines wider than 85 mm, I have to be realistic. I could get an 85mm arch lever, but it's only 5mm wider than what I already have, and I'd find myself with the same problem again sooner rather than later

Just need to figure out which size of box I want - big enough to be future-proof for a good while, but not so big as to be unportable and unwieldy...