Welcome to a new week. Check back to last week's chat for news. Linda is spending weekend with Tomasz. Annette has been told to slow down . . . by Brenda who sounds just as busy! Alan has been wandering shops again.
Hello everyone. This is the kindest and most caring chat site I know of, so I'm asking if you will all say a prayer, light a candle or just think good thoughts, what ever suits you, for beautiful, little Isidora who has Retts Syndrome and has spent the past six months in hospital and is now in Intensive Care. Her parents have been by her bedside twenty four seven. Isidora is a much loved Grand-daughter of a friend and she has asked me to send special thoughts winging her way.
Now I am going to brag....big time! My grandson, James, having just got an Honours degree has got another 'first'. His design for a lamp has just been placed first in the student lighting design awards in London. Slap-up dinner and a £1500 prize on thursday last. Isn't he a clever boy then!!?
My thanks to all of you who read this and think of Isidora.
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QW, Many congratulations to your grandson. You must be so very proud of him. He must have your genes.
I will remember Isidora in my prayers and I will light a candle for her when I go to church tomorrow morning. I can't imagine what the family are going through. It must be heart breaking,
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QW: My thoughts are with little Isidora and her family. (how old is she, QW, you didn't say) The illness of a child is especially hard.
How proud you must be of your grandson, he is so clever. Something to celebrate with a glass of something bubbly, I think!
Thanks for the heads up, Brenda.
Twenty years ago I travelled to Mexico to see a wonderful eclipse of the sun on July 11 1991. I wrote an account of it called "The Moon Came to Todos Santos".
I have now rewritten it and will reproduce it in a a number of parts over the next few days.
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I look forward to that, Tiger. :)
THE MOON CAME TO TODOS SANTOS part 1
On the night of 27th June 1991 a friend stayed in my house so that at an early hour we could leave for the journey.
Friday 28 June 1991
We were up at about 6am and after a light breakfast we caught the tube to Warren Street Station and there we shook hands and said "See you in Los Angeles" Then he went to Gatwick to fly with Continental while I went to Heathrow to fly TWA. He flew to Houston and then to Los Angeles while I flew direct.
My journey was amazing. I took off at about 11am and we headed north. I had a seat by a window on the starboard side of the aircraft. We first flew up over Scotland and then Iceland which looked very brown. After that we encountered the snows of Greenland and on to Canada.
The first 2000 miles of Canada was magnificent desolation. You could see the shadow of the aircraft tread its way across the frozen wilderness. Then the pilot announced that we were 15 minutes north of Edmonton.
Then we flew down over Washington state, Oregon, Nevada and into California. As we breached the clouds over Los Angeles the first thing I saw was the Olympic stadium. Interesting although the sun was behind us on leaving London it was ahead of us as we aproached Los Angeles yet we had apparently never changed direction.
We touched down at LAX airport at about 3pm. After getting through Customs I had to hang around for a few hours to meet my friend arriving about three hours later.
About an hour after I arrived the ground began to shake. I thought "Not an earthquake already?" Well it was. There had been a tremor that morning and this was an after shock.
At around 6pm my friend arrived at gate 66. At least that part of the arrangements had worked. We were offered accommodation at a hostel in Highland Avenue and we decided to take it. I remember getting minibus sort of transport to the hostel. We spent the night there in a four bed room.
I remember it was so strange. My body clock was telling me it was 5am where it clearly was 9pm. I turned in fairly early but did not sleep particularly well.
Please hurry up with part 11 . :)
That's great Tiger. Much better than your last version :)
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QW, I'm thinking of Isidora. What a beautiful name as well:)
Sorry, being out of the loop, is Lucy your new dog?
Toffee is very gentle but when she gets going, she is hard to stop. She now weigh's 50lbs!