Imitation Eiffel Tower that looks like an electricity pylon
Athens
He loves dogs, and other animals. He must be a decent sort of chap then.
My favourite... Kenyan tea
The more than 11,400 Anzac troops who perished in the allied attack on Gallipoli, 100 years ago.
"The Budget should be balanced.
The Treasury should be refilled.
Public debt should be reduced.
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled
The assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome will become bankrupt.
People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance."
Cicero, 55 BC
So, evidently we've learned bugger all over the past 2,070 years.
"They shall grow not old,
As we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning,
we will remember them.
FROM "FOR THE FALLEN" by LAURENCE BINYON 1914
Licking the butter out of the butter dish
Banning Meredith for not polishing the buttons on his uniform
1836 ... also a leap year
For little T. You would have been 9 years old today. In a few days time it will be you and your dads 5th anniversary yet it seems like it was just yesterday that I saw you both for the last time.
I've been super nice today... I'm bursting with niceness, in fact... and now I'm going to blow my own trumpet!
I provided cakes and brownies for the bake sale at school, Gave a lift to one of the teachers, agreed to take on more tasks at school (the lazy woman who should have done them, hasn't) I anonymously paid for the shopping a woman behind me in the supermarket. I saw she was mentally tallying up the meager amount, with a worried look on her face.
And I'm only halfway through the day!
Okay... trumpet blowing over... :-)
1824 That was a leap year.
Ssatu... Its Buganda for three. A foreign language to pretty much everyone on here, but lets get the game moving again.
so...
SSATU
It will take a lot more than that to scare me...
Buzz off, find someone else to try it on