"To see or not to see "!

A few days ago I watched a program about the connection between one's eyes and one's brain hosted by Alan Yentob which I found most interesting. It discussed colour blindness and the various degrees that one can have if one is at all colour blind.
I was talking about the program to a friend of mine the next day who was colour blind (what luck!) and who had been in the Airforce in the last war. He obviously new a lot about the subject and told me that one can be totally colourblind. The really interesting thing then that he told me was that in the war airmen who were totally colour blind were sought after .
Guess why ? To be flown over enemy lines and to look for camouflaged buildings, and of course they couldn't see the various colours of the camouflage but only the buildings etc hidden beneath
I hope you found this interesting ? I did !

Polly.

Your computer,friend or foe?

If you are a blog reader you may recall a blog that I wrote last year about a time I stayed with my son and his wife in their house in the country. As how we were peacefully having tea and hordes of police arrived and started to walk over the fields digging in various places, apparently looking for the missing body of a wife of a suspect man in the village,with no result.
You may be pleased to hear that the suspect man is now in prison with a few years ahead of him to regret his crime. And amazingly how he was convicted eventually was because he was so stupid as to put on his computer "Ways to commit a murder and not be found out." And he had various methods printed out. Where he got them I cannot imagine.

A Lament

My computer is in love with the google,

But I'm afraid that he doesn't love me.

How I wish that I was a google

And had all that love that I see.

Face and Laugh

Walter is right, we must have a happy face and laugh as much we can. "Laugh" is an anecdote to overcome depression, sadness and misery. Say HA HA HA HA . Possible a lot of people may not agree, but that is my own opinion! Lily, Araceli and Veronica endorse my thinking.

Laugh to get better

Seen on the side of a van in central London: " Turn that frown upside down" It made my day... I suggest that you Say it! Shout it! Make it global. Put it on your mail. Your contribution to a peaceful universe... Walter Vego

The Orange Street Church

The Church was founded in 1693 by Huguenot refugees, who fled from France at the time of the revocation of the edict of Nantes.

In 1776 the Chapel passed into the hands of the Church of England.

In 1787 the Chapel was then passed into the hands of the Congregationalists.

Adjoining the Chapel was Sir Issac Newton's House, which was condemned in 1913.

Friendly neighbours?!

I say friendly and I'm sure they would be if I actually met them face to face! I will explain. I live in a very nice flat in a nice street but at times I wish I was in the depths of the country. It is like "Big Brother". I feel that the entire day someone is looking at me. No, I'm not going bonkers! Why I feel this is because opposite me lives someone who obviously enjoys smoking and, at fairly short intervals through the day, they open the window and lean right out with their cigarette and have a good look around. The first time is when I am sitting at my dressing doing my face and hair right in my own bedroom window! And the last time in the day is when I'm sitting in a wing chair in the drawingroom with the light over me reading my book. You will say, if you can be bothered to read all this, " Why can't I move my dressingtable and chair"? But I can't, there's no other place to put them! You will say "Net curtains"? No Way!

If Millman Street closes.....

If Millman Street closes it will be very sad. People will lose a wonderful place where they can share their lives together and support each other.

Proposed Closure of Millman Street Centre

I'm deeply sad that our community centre for elderly is earmarked for closure in order to save a small amount from the budgeted expenditure.

It will rip out services for Camden elderly citizens as they depend on it as their life-line for meeting, dining, services, caring and sharing.

We must safeguard the lives of many who are at the autumn in their lives. What kind of society will we be living in where we cannot provide for the basic needs of our vulnerable and aged population!?

Mintu Ghosh 24/02/11

Closing of our centre

When the centre closes, if it does, the most effect it will have on me is that there will be no more computer lessons which I so look forward to.

I will buy myself a laptop and use it in my flat and how boring that will be!

Also imagine all the muddles I will get into !

Polly

Save Our Community

The people of Holborn are a close community who depend on the Millman Street Centre for the lunch club, training and socialising environment. These facilities are vital for us.

Save Millman St Community Centre

The heart of the older people is Millman Community Centre.

Don't close Millman Street

If Millman Street closes I won't be able to access my e-mails which will cut me off from my family in the USA and Australia.

Possible Closure of Millman Street

It would be terrible if this wonderful centre had to close. It is a lifeline for my father who attends every day to socialise . . . otherwise he would be looking at four walls alone.

If Millman Street Community Centre has to close...

There'll be no more dropping in to check emails with friends and acquaintances....chat over tea....learn new IT skills .....

Man and Nature

A week before Christmas 2010 I was in Miami with several hundred other people all trying to get home for the holidays. We were all grounded by the weather. Planes could take off in one part of the world but could not land in another. All was chaos. At the same time we were being told about floods, earthquakes, forest fires , pestilence and famine in other parts of the world.

None of this was under human control, we analyzed, discussed and speculated. When the snows melted and the waters receded we stopped praying, we stopped wondering and weeping. The sun will shine , memories will fade...till the next time.

What will it take for us to read the writing on the wall?

New year greetings ... Walter Vego