James Blunt, music movie

Ek het James se CD...."Back to bedlam" en daarop verskyn die liedjie wat op die video is, "You're beautiful". Ander wat ook mooi is, is "Goodbye my lover", "Tears and rain" en "High"...

Osterley Park 2

My topic is "green". Green is the colour that changes into different colours! During Autumn, it is amazing to see all the changes....if you look closely, you will see the seed of the Horse Chestnut on this tree...
Here it is, but it has changed! And it has dropped down....ready for another cycle?
The English call this a "concker" and earlier, they played games with the conkers and children knew how to keep themself busy with it!

In the corner of the garden, green, but with an invader....
Once again, beautiful green! Some children in London say that they hate green as a colour, because there is so much green in the country! .....never thought someone will say that...
.....more green......
And.....there's the invader...he thought I would never see him, I think he was ready to jump....wonder how fast that would be...

Isle of Wight

King Henry's Kitchen...a Restaurant on the Island....He is also the King who beheaded 2 of his 6 wives! Read here... about King Henry. He was King Henry VIII...a vicious king I would say! He was the founder of the Church of England......and he wrote "Green Sleeves"!
In primary schools the children learn this rhyme to remember what happened to his wives..."Divorced, beheaded, died
Divorced, beheaded, survived". In that order, is what happened...!








Please click HERE to read on my Wordpress-blog what I said about this book on this last image, see more beautiful images and also what I said about the historical town. This link will open in a new window.

Tangerine and cancer

Source here.

LONDON (Reuters) - Tangerine peel could help in the fight against certain cancers, researchers said on Wednesday.

Human cancer cells, which contain an enzyme called P450 CYP1B1, were destroyed by a compound contained in tangerine peel, Salvestrol Q40, scientists at Leicester School of Pharmacy found.

The findings may offer a new approach to uncovering a treatment for cancers such as breast, lung, prostate and ovarian cancer, the scientists said.
Medicinal chemist Dr. Hoon L. Tan said: "It is very exciting to find a compound in food that can target cancers specifically.

"Salvestrols may offer a new mechanism of dietary anti-cancer action.
"Indeed, the depletion of salvestrols in the modern diet is due to the fact that many people no longer eat the skin of fruits and this may be a major contributory factor to the increasing incidence of some cancers in the human population."

The breakthrough was being presented at the British Pharmaceutical Conference held in Manchester.But he warned that the research was still in its early days and many tests will be needed before reaching the clinical trial stage, which could take between five and seven years.
The researchers have formed a private company, Nature's Defence Investments, to protect and promote their research, with the potential of designing a natural anti-cancer alternative based on the new technology.

Chess Links

EnglishChess Federation2007


Sussex Junior Chess here

British Colombia Canada with Steinitz information and rules for Juniors.

British Chess clubs

British Chess club links

Weird!

METRO newspaper....on the tube...
Thief picks wrong house to burgle
Friday, September 7, 2007

Of all the houses in all of Britain, he had to break into this one.
A bungling burglar was locked up on Thursday after breaking into a flat while its police officer owner was at home. Jason Marshall forced the front door and began sneaking around when Sgt Abdul Haque came downstairs.
In a flash of inspiration, Marshall explained he had come to clean the windows but was told: 'Not here you're not. You're nicked.' Sgt Haque grabbed him and called for back-up. A search revealed he was carrying 9g of heroin.
The 31-year-old later admitted one count of burglary, possession of a class A drug and asked for 14 other burglary offences to be taken into consideration.
He had recently stolen more than £5,500 worth of property, a court heard. Marshall received a three-year sentence at Portsmouth Crown Court

Read the Metro heretoo.

A day out!

Scroll down for a bit of English... Y5 taster trip...for the Y6 trip in the new year.

Hierdie was 'n uitstappie met die twee Jaar 5-klasse - my klas was 'n gemengde klas, dus was dit 1 1/2 klas en nie twee volledige klasse nie - om vir hulle 'n voorsmakie te gee van die Jaar6-uitstappie. In Jaar6 gaan hulle vir so 'n uitstappie waar hulle vir so 3 nagte oornag en allerhande "pret" het. Dis nou amper soos 'n miniatuur "veldskool". Die kinders leer baie om saam te werk in 'n groep en om mekaar aan te moedig in die aktiwiteite. Hulle kry ook probleme waar hulle 'n oplossing in die groep moet vind. Alle probleme moet self probeer opgelos word sonder enige hulp vanaf die kant van die volwassenes, ons kon bietjie leiding/voorstelle hier en daar gee, maar nie die oplossing nie. Ons het so bietjie uit London gery...suidwaarts deur Greenwich en Bexley na die plekkie.

Die foto's onderaan die blog is dan ook wat ek geneem het soos die bus gery het, sommer in die ry geneem! Oppad terug was die kinders taamlik moeg na die dag se pret, soos van die foto's vir julle wys. Dis nie aldag dat hulle so 'n geleentheid kry nie, sommige van hulle kom net NOOIT weg van die huis nie....ongelooflik...maar waar. Een outjie....Steven...het my kop van my ore af gepraat van opgewondenheid soos hy dinge op die pad gesien het...ook van 'n land van Afrika af.....as ek hom nie pertinent gevra het om stil te bly, sodat ek met die ander Onderwyseres 'n woord kan inkry nie, sou hy eenstryk aanmekaar gepraat het....en ek het letterlik 'n paar keer vir hom gevra om stil te bly omdat ek 'n praatbeurt wil he!

Die Onnies by die plek is almal gekwalifiseerde Onnies, maar hulle was meestal van verskillende lande. Die enetjie in my groep, Cindy, was van Amerika en dan was daar een van die manne van Australie. (deelteken daar, dankie, my Alt-funksies wil nie 'n deelteken en kappie gee nie, jammer!) Hulle kom van ander lande en werk by die Avontuurkampe om bietjie die wereld te leer ken. Sy het gese sy wil eintlik na Australie gaan en haar daar gaan vestig.

Onnies wat die dag se aktiwiteite aangebied het.....Teachers at the camp...organised the day's activities. Cindy is at the back, from America. One male teacher was from Australia.
Walk to the woods...to build a shelter! Sounds like our schools in SA in the "good old days"....Ons stap na die woud om 'n skuiling te gaan bou...klink dit bietjie bekend? Veldskool in SA!
'n Heerlike swembad om in rond te plas en te speel....ook om bietjie te leer swem. Swimming pool to play and splash around...and to learn to swim too.

Hier moes hulle hul verbeel die gras is 'n rivier! Daar is woeste krokodille in die rivier en hulle moet almal oorkom sonder dat EEN aan die gras raak...anders vat Cindy die band weg...sy is dus die "krokodil"...Cindy played the crocodile...they had to cross the "river" and the moment someone gets on the grass...the croc has a meal! So, then Cindy takes away the tyre...and nobody was allowed on the grass!
Diep dink hier, die hout vierkante moet almal in orde gepak word, maar mag nie een van hulle los rondle nie...hulle moet almal "iewers" wees...en dis 'n storie om dit uitgesorteer kry sodat hulle van groot na klein gepak word...hulle mag nie die blokke op die gras neergesit het nie, hy moes in 'n ander paal gaan totdat hy gebruik word....sorting wooden squares from largest to smallest...and you are not allowed to put them on the grass....it must go into a pole until you use it...

Skuiling amper klaar, maar dis 'n gesukkel! Geen hulp mag verleen word..hulle moet self dink...maar kan hulle! Die arme goed...! Met bietjie "raad" en idees het hulle dit darem reggekry...die drie is almal van Afrika en die enetjie heel regs was in my klas, baie oulik en 'n "prinses" in haar stam waar sy vandaan gekom het...moes vlug...as gevolg van situasie in die land. Sy is nou so 5 jaar in Engeland...Building shelters! What a nightmare...no idea how!! With a bit of thinking....they got there...we were not suppose to help them...poor thingies!
These two girls were not in my class...but very creative. I got them to start a story to pass the time...One started a sentence and the other continued and so on...the girl on the right was a new girl, very bright and cute...Die twee dogters was nie in my klas nie, die enetjie regs was in my literacy-groep...sy is baie slim en was op daardie stadium slegs 2 weke in die skool. Altwee oulike kinders, maar die enetjie regs het darem my hart gesteel! 'n Regte "lady".

Moeg! Tired!
Bexley.......Greenwich........London.........
Sommige motorhandelaars se besigheid is sommer so sonder 'n afdak...nie soos ons dit gewoond is in SA nie....en lyk maar bietjie klein...die spasie...terwyl ander handelaars ordentlike spasie het met 'n ordentlike gebou soos ons dit ken...

Change!

Weather change....on the clock...15:10....and the first three pictures were taken...almost after the other which I posted earlier today! That was taken 10 to 3!

The next three pictures were taken at 19:45. Compare picture 3 with picture 4....and Heathrow is...quiet!!

Great Fire of London!

1666 : Great Fire of London begins
In the early morning hours, the Great Fire of London breaks out in the house of King Charles II's baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. It soon spread to Thames Street, where warehouses filled with combustibles and a strong easterly wind transformed the blaze into an inferno. When the Great Fire finally was extinguished on September 6, more than four-fifths of London was destroyed. Miraculously, only 16 people were known to have died.
The Great Fire of London was a disaster waiting to happen. London of 1666 was a city of medieval houses made mostly of oak timber. Some of the poorer houses had walls covered with tar, which kept out the rain but made the structures more vulnerable to fire. Streets were narrow, houses were crowded together, and the firefighting methods of the day consisted of neighborhood bucket brigades armed with pails of water and primitive hand pumps. Citizens were instructed to check their homes for possible dangers, but there were many instances of carelessness.
So it was on the evening of September 1, 1666, when Thomas Farrinor, the king's baker, failed to properly extinguish his oven. He went to bed, and sometime around midnight sparks from the smoldering embers ignited firewood lying beside the oven. Before long, his house was in flames. Farrinor managed to escape with his family and a servant out an upstairs window, but a bakery assistant died in the flames--the first victim.
Sparks from Farrinor's bakery leapt across the street and set fire to straw and fodder in the stables of the Star Inn. From the Inn, the fire spread to Thames Street, where riverfront warehouses were packed full with flammable materials such as tallow for candles, lamp oil, spirits, and coal. These stores lit aflame or exploded, transforming the fire into an uncontrollable blaze. Bucket-bearing locals abandoned their futile efforts at firefighting and rushed home to evacuate their families and save their valuables. Read more about the
Fire of London ....here.

Leone's Art

Leone and Pieter live in Aberystwyth and we met them here in London. Leone is a fantastic artist and some of her work can be seen in Embassies in some countries. I took two pictures, bear in mind that I'm not a professional photographer! but I think it is still good enough to admire and to share. The first two pictures are the two which I photographed and I found the others by a search on Yahoo....
We visited them in Wales and you can follow
this link (and go down with the slider) to look at the pictures in Aber and read more about our visit there.

Tribute to Diana

Newsarticle from Yahoo

And another herealso on Yahoo.

This dress on this first picture was also my wedding dress! I gave this picture to a friend of mine and she did everything! We changed the neck-line, because I wanted it a bit different. I didn't wear a hat though! I can remember that Sunday when the news came about Diana's death! I sat in front of the TV, soaking up every bit of news coming in, while sobbing! She was a lovely person.

BBC Prince Harrythis morning.