Your News this week
Each week we create the Your News bulletin, using the single sentences emailed to us or left on the blog. Here's the latest script:
On The lonely moors, the wind cuts into my face. Stranded, far from home.
My tiny, very old, Rhode Island Red bantam called Ruby has disappeared, presumed eaten by a fox or a stoat.
Train spotting on Brighton Station with my 15 month old grandson William.
Started consultation process for 35 redundancies - not sleeping very well.
I now have my New Zealand residence visa - but have yet to sell my house to enable me to use it.
I have been watching my husband, gun under his arm, stalk the pheasants on our land. Bang! There goes another one.
On Monday I got a new, prosthetic left breast after my mastectomy last year.
Delighted to note from my kitchen window definite green shoots in my garden: here comes the spring!
I took on an additional trainee design engineer.
I'm battling with medication that causes worse symptoms than the illness it is desired to cure.
A heady mix of networking, marketing jargon, paperwork, Mexican food and Norwegian pop/rock bands.
I got a new mobile on Sunday and am trying to teach the predictive text to swear properly.
Wife out of hospital, but I need to keep nagging her not to do anything. I'm tired of trying to do everything, she of doing nothing.
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Jennifer:
My sentence for the week: "Recession in most parts of the world."
~Dennis Junior~
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Sir,
There seems to be a dearth of common sense in this country.
The latest squabble by humanitarian groups concerning the controversy regarding the BBC's denial of appeal for aid-funding for the Hamas led Palestinians is a point in question.
In my opinion the BBC are correct.
War is appalling in any sense. Nobody wins ultimately, we all know that.
People talk about disproportionate response in terms of weapons use in the GAZA conflict, whatever that is. But this is not a viable proposition.
I ask the question- Is the avowed aim of Hamas 'to annihilate the Jewish nation', 'proportionate' to the Jews aim of limited warfare to protect itself.
If the Jews had had the same intention towards the Palestinians, hundreds of thousands of them would be dead, and they would have suffered total annhiliation.
But that is not the Israelis aim. They seek to live within secure borders, thats all, just the same as we do.
Was it 3000 rockets fired against its people last year ??
Would we as a nation have stood for that kind of provocation and not sought to destroy the capability of the provocateurs.
The fact that few Israelis died was not because of any intention by Hamas to do as little damage as possible, or to limit Israeli casualties.
On the contrary they seek to target and kill as many innocent Israeli civilians as they can.
If Hamas hides behind the skirts of its women and children, and hides its weapons in among the Palestinian communities, that is their responsibility.
They have defined the rules of engagement, and suffer the consequences, terrible though the outcome may be.
But don't blame Israel for the carnage that ensues from such a decision.
It must also be obvious that the nations who are at peace with Israel ie. Egypt and Jordan, are not suffering from Israeli attacks. Why is that??
It seems blindingly obvious to me.
No nation has more to gain from peaceful relations with the Israelis than the Palestinians.
Unfortunately until they abandon the 'annihilation principle' there will be no peace, and war will continue to sap the wealth of each nation, when it could be better spent on building the region for all.
While nations such as Syria and Iran continue to fight a war by proxy through Hamas, providing the rockets and other weapons, they provoke the response from Israel, which the guilty and innocent Palestinians pay for with their lives.
Finally will the international aid they seek via the BBC airwaves to rebuild their communities, be siphoned off to buy yet more rockets, as in the past.
The BBC are right to deny that privelege.
Let those oil rich nations who have been milking the West at $147 for a barrel of oil in recent times, provide for the suffering of the Palestinians.
Compassion and support we have for those who suffer in all nations. Our country cannot be faulted for its charitable instincts regarding those in need.
Look at the support provided for the innocents who have suffered because of earthquakes, tsunamis etc. they are deserving of aid.
But that should not be the case for societies who willingly elect terrorists to be their government, whose avowed aim is to destroy another nation.
While the Palestinians continue to bury their heads in the sand regarding what Hamas is doing in their name, the issue will never be resolved.
And until such time neither would I personally support any financial appeal which could be used to buttress the Hamas objectives.
Lets stop all this pseudo political babble and correctness. Lets call a spade a spade, and get things sorted out.
Maffofmono
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My sentence for the week:
January sunlight glinting on the cascading waters of an urban fountain clarifies my post-Ofsted befuddlement into the realisation that data have the power to erase our humanity.
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My haiku of the week:
January is
Like a homie's low-slung jeans
Almost at an end.
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On the counter in the shop where I work,I had a conversation with a lady from Ireland about James Joyce,and mentioned the line,"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear".
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