Birthdays, birthdays they come too fast these days...
When you get to my age birthdays come a little too quickly. One closer to the last, perhaps?
I used to go out and celebrate, then later it was a family occasion to be shared with my wife and children.
Now its usually my favourite dish and the anticipated visit from some of my grandchildren, though one of our grandchildren has lived with us for many years, himself.
Even birthdays celebrations for the grandchildren have had to be re-organised as they have continued to increase - eleven with another well on the way.
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Stories in nature - human in nature...
First published at Qassia:
A beige coloured penguin was taunted and ostracised by its fellows down in Antarctica.
Scientists down there in Antarctica were trying to come up with ideas to help the unfortunate penguin - perhaps dye it black and white or something else.
So it proves that not only humans are discriminated against by their fellows. Anything different or standing out could be in danger of discrimination.
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I posted about ANZAC Day down under a few weeks ago, when we honour our fallen heroes from all wars on April 25 every year.
In Returned Services Association clubs in New Zealand, and Returned Services League clubs in Australia - up and down and way across each country, returned services personnel and their families will attend 'dawn parades' and return to their clubs to socialise and have a drink in memory of those who have passed on.
Most countries have similar memorials, but Anzac Day just keeps getting stronger as the youth of both countries continue to take an interest in the past, and consider why their ancestors were prepared to give up their lives for King and Country ninety years ago in a land on the other side of the globe.
Each year hundreds of New Zealanders and Australians make the pilgrimage to Gallipoli in Turkey where the ANZACS stormed ashore under fire in what is now called Anzac Cove, and visit the memorials and cemetries of fallen New Zealanders, Australians, British, Indians, and Turks as well.
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A hippopotomus reportedly swallowed a dwarf in a circus in northern Thailand.The dwarf nicknamed "Od", died when he bounced sideways from a trampoline and was swallowed by a yawning hippo, which was waiting for the next act.Vets on the scene said Hilda the Hippo had a gag reflex that caused her to automatically swallow.