Celia
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Sent to me from a friend in the UK, via Melbourne!
A young Arab boy asks his dad
“what are you wearing on your head?”
The father said:
“Why, my son, it is a ‘chechia.’ In the desert it protects our heads from the intense heat of the sun.”
“And what is the long flowing robe you are wearing?”
asked the boy.
“Oh, my son!”
exclaimed the father
“It is very simple.
This is a ‘djbellah.’ As I have told you, in the desert it is not only very hot, but the sand is always blowing.
My djbellah protects my entire body.”
The son then asked:
“But Father, what about those ugly shoes you have on your feet?”
“These are ‘babouches’ my son,”
the father replied.
You must understand that although the desert sands are very beautiful, they are also extremely hot.
These babouches keep us from burning our feet.”
Son asks
“what is that black tent mom and sister are wearing ?”
Father :
” It’s called a burkha , it helps the hot desert sand from hitting the face and body during a sandstorm” .
“So tell me then,”
added the boy.
“Yes, my son…”
“Why are we living in Melbourne and still wearing all this shit?”
LOL took some time to read this to hubby but I got through it!
I found it interesting but a struggle to read through the heading will go back and read the rest if I can.
Every fireball meteor that has hit Earth’s atmosphere in the last 33 years is revealed in new map – including giant 65-foot rock that exploded over Russia in 2013
NASA released a map showing hundreds of fireball meteors that have soared through Earth’s atmosphere from 1998 through 2021, with the 2013 space rock over Russia being the largest. The world map shows dots, ranging in four different sizes and colors, that are proportional to the impact (kinetic) energy of each fireball, the total energy the meteoroid brought into the atmosphere due to its velocity. Scientists use the kinetic energy given off by the fireball, sound waves and energy at other wavelengths to determine the size even before it enters Earth’s atmosphere.
Analysis by an international team led from the National Taiwan University found that the chemicals were found throughout the instruments’ wood, not just the surface.
Niklaus Meier, 31, from Lucerne, Switzerland, estimates that he spent 3,000 Swiss Francs (£2,400) on the famous plastic bricks for his recreation of the ship. With no instructions to follow, he took eight weeks replicating every lifeboat, every window and every detail in 1:145 scale, bringing the famous ship back to life. The RMS Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg (depicted left in Lego) while travelling on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in April 1912. At its launch, the luxurious vessel (inset top) was the largest ship in the world. Mr Meier was inspired to take on the project by his seven-year-old nephew, Henri. Apart from the rigging, the final creation is made entirely of Lego or compatible off-brand bricks, and held together by nothing but the studs of the pieces. The finished replica is more than 6feet long and weighs roughly 45lbs. The real Titanic was nearly 883feet in length and weighed around 52,000 tons.
Her film star father was so astonished when she want from obscurity to global icon, aged 12, HAYLEY MILLS hid the reviews of their first joint movie together. As her memoir reveals, it was the start of a decades long family drama
HAYLEY MILLS: One day in 1961, I received a cardboard box that contained an exquisite little Oscar. Half as big as the full-sized one, it had been created specially for child movie stars, including Judy Garland and Shirley Temple. And me. Yet there isn’t a single photograph of me holding my baby Oscar – even though my father was constantly taking snaps of me and my siblings. In fact, after it arrived at our home, it was never really mentioned again. I don’t even recall where my parents put it. I just know that they worried it might all be ‘too much’. It’s more likely, however, that it was my father John Mills (pictured right, pretending to be a press photographer with Hayley) who found it all too much. After a long and distinguished career as a movie star, he’d yet to win an Oscar himself. So it must have been pretty galling when his 14-year-old daughter got one for Pollyanna – her very first film for Disney (left: Hayley in a portrait issued for Pollyanna).
[Used to enjoy her movies she acted in]
PRINCE CHARLES: The devastation in the land of my father is the stuff of nightmares. We must ALL act before it’s too late…
It has been heartbreaking to see the devastating fires affecting Greece, Turkey, and now Italy which has just recorded Europe’s highest ever temperature PRINCE CHARLES writes. It has been truly the stuff of nightmares to see the once blue skies above the Peloponnese, Attica and the island of Evia turn a bright orange as mile after mile of the country’s famed landscape and over 100,000 hectares of forest and farmland have been swallowed up by ferocious flames, causing the tragic loss of life, injury and the widespread destruction of so many peoples’ homes and livelihoods.
Desperation all over the world.
       UK coalition forces, Turkish coalition forces, and US Marines assist a child during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Friday 
A baby is handed over to the American army over the perimeter wall of the airport to be evacuated in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday in an image taken from a video obtained from social media
[How desperate you must be to hand your child over to a stranger to have a better life wondering if you will ever see it again? it brings tears to my eyes]
WA Premier Mark McGowan has announced NSW will be reclassified as ‘extreme risk’ meaning no-one will be able to enter besides government officials, even for compassionate reasons.
What is going on?
Shocking picture shows mercy plane leaving Kabul carrying pregnant wife of British ex-Marine but almost NO ONE else despite UK and US saying the evacuation was in full swing and with thousands desperate to flee the Taliban
A shocking image shows a near-empty evacuation flight taking the wife of an ex-Royal Marine commando out of Kabul as the Taliban block thousands of Afghans from entering the capital’s airport and US troops fired shots into the air and used teargas on crowds trying to escape. Paul ‘Pen’ Farthing, a British expat who lives in Kabul and got separated from his wife during the chaos engulfing Afghanistan, said on Twitter: ‘Kaisa is on her way home! BUT this aircraft is empty… scandalous as thousands wait outside Kabul airport being crushed as they cannot get in. Sadly people will be left behind when this mission is over as we CANNOT get it right’. There have been reports this week of evacuation flights leaving Afghanistan with just a handful of people on board, despite thousands of trapped foreign nationals and locals all struggling to escape the threat of persecution under the new Taliban regime. Westerners and visa holders trying to get to their flights say they are unable to get to the gates because of the crowd of up to 50,000 desperate locals who are gathering outside the airport and begging US and British troops to let them through. US troops have been firing warning shots to disperse thousands of desperate Afghans outside the airport, with footage taken on Wednesday night showing stun grenades flashing beside the perimeter. Expats who tried to get through the gate claimed the shots were fired by Western forces.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has confirmed that the armed resistance to the Taliban , which includes SAS-trained forces, in Afghanistan is forming in the Panjshir Valley. Speaking today, the Russian official also confirmed that the resistance force was being led by deposed vice-president Amrullah Saleh and Ahmad Massoud, the son of a slain anti-Taliban fighter. Reports also claim that among the fighters headed to the region are members of the SAS-trained Afghan special forces. ‘The Taliban doesn’t control the whole territory of Afghanistan,’ Lavrov told reporters at a press conference in Moscow following a meeting with his Libyan counterpart.
I wish them all the luck in the world to try and wind back their country for freedom.!
New Zealand’s Covid outbreak started with traveller from Australia who HAD been in hotel quarantine – as cases double AGAIN to 21
The New Zealander flew from Sydney to Auckland on August 7 and self-isolated in the Government’s makeshift quarantine facility at the Crowne Plaza hotel.
