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Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran

Summertime - Fun Boy Three (my favourite version of the Gershwin song)

Wasn't Richard also a hostage for quite a while, and the English people had to pay a fortune in ransom for him, which didn't make him very popular! I didn't know about the Far Right adopting him,they need to do a bit of research I think! I think he died abroad as well, as you say he spent little time in England at all despite being King.

Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir “A husband or wife did not have the right either to demand sex from his or her spouse or to refuse it, and there was a catalogue of forbidden sexual practices, notably homosexuality, bestiality, certain sexual positions, masturbation, the use of aphrodisiacs, and oral sex, which could incur a penance of three years’ duration. Nor were people to make love on Sundays, holy days, or feast days, or during Lent, pregnancy, or menstruation. People believed that if these rules were disobeyed, deformed children or lepers might result.” Ostensibly a biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine who lived in the twelfth century and was the wife of two Kings and the mother of ten (two of whom became Kings) and lived to eighty-two, a great age in those times. She was married to Louis VII of France and Henry II of England. As with the other biography of Weir’s I have read (Katherine Swynford) this is more of a history of the times. That is the history of monarchy and aristocracy of the early Plantagenets and the complex politics of France. There is also a good deal about the mores of the ruling classes and how those interacted with religion as per the quote above. The politics of the time was complex. The English King also owned large parts of France and there were constant minor wars, skirmishes. Weir guides the reader through all of this and Eleanor’s role in it all. At various times she ran her own provinces in France (Aquitaine), ruled England whilst her son Richard was crusading, acted as regent for Henry II when he was warring in France, was imprisoned (in some luxury) by Henry for almost a decade, plotted and schemed with her sons against her husband and lived in a nunnery. It's worth noting a couple of points. There is a fair amount about Richard I (aka Richard the Lionheart). Currently Richard has been one of those adopted by the far right in England to promote and support the current anti migrant anti people of colour messages they are pushing. Ironically Richard spent very little time in England, didn’t speak English, hated the place and spent most of his time in the South of France looking after his possessions there. He did briefly spend some time in Nottingham in the mid 1190s which later was used in the Robin Hood myths. This is an interesting account, but it is very much a political history with Eleanor periodically surfacing in it and playing a significant role. It’s informative if you don’t know much about the early Plantagenets and want to. 7 out of 10 Starting The Duncan Grant Murals in Lincoln Cathedral by Edward Robinson

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In The Summertime ~ Mungo Jerry

I can remember this advice too, I think it's the cold air that helps. I found it worked for one of our children who had mild croup. But I'd definitely get medical advice if it was more severe.

I took Adrian back to hospital because his breathing got loud again. It's called something like 'stator', loud in-breaths. He had to submit to another nebulising. I had to hold a mask over his mouth and noise while he breathed in vapour. An old treatment was to make them breathe in steam or to moisten the atmosphere in the room. He was also given some steroids, which were administered by mouth. As it was the second day he was brought in, he was kept in overnight. He has had quite a good night. He has slept right through and his breathing is quiet.

Best wishes Kev . Thinking of you and Adrian. Sending love to the boy in the struggle with croup.

That sounds very frightening, I hope he gets better soon. I haven't heard of croup for years, I think one of the treatments used to be opening a window, presumably to let in fresh air. I wonder if that's a function that the nebuliser does, getting more oxygen into their system.

One good thing about being wrong is the joy it brings to others. If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall. My wife and I decided to never go to bed angry. We've been awake since Tuesday. My wife said: "That's the 4th time you've gone back for dessert! Doesn't it embarrass you?" I said: "No, I keep telling them it's for you." Being old is when you don't care where your spouse goes, just as long as you don't have to go too. I want someone I can share my entire life with who will leave me alone most of the time.

In the Good Old Summertime - Nat King Cole

One thing that surprised me about the plot was that an injustice was allowed to happen, which would not normally be allowed to happen, at least not in light fiction.

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Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran

and show dominance by

Long Gone Lonesome Blues ~ Hank Williams

Croup IS scary with young children, hope he gets better very soon. One reassuring thing about children, though, is how quickly they bounce back.

Thanks Luna. It was alarming how quickly he got ill. I don't think he had reached a dangerous stage, but I was thinking of conracting the G.P. tomorrow. He might have reached a dangerous stage by then. As it was he had a high temperature and a nasty sounding cough. When the nurse connected him up to the monitoring device his pulse rate was in the 170s, even when he was asleep. A few hours later it is in the 120s. I don't know what is typical for two-year-olds. The nurse nebelated him. She put a mask over his face and made him breathe steam with some medicine in the steam. I think the medicine might have been adenaline.

I hope all goes well with Adrian, @KEV67

I went back to the Bridge Community church today. They handed me a tablet to sign up my details. I was not 100% sure about that. There was a different band to last week, and I could not see Adrian's nursery nurse, but she was upstairs looking after the children. One of the band was an American woman and there seemed to be a number of Americans in the congregation. There are quite a few Americans in Bury St Edmunds because of the American air bases near by. We had a guest pastor. He was a good speaker. The subject of the sermon was how a church of five members sent two of their number, Barnabas and Saul, out to preach Christianity in the wider world: Judea, Samaria and the wider world, at least Asia Minor and Greece, judging by the slide. I wondered why Galilee was not mentioned specifically with Judea and Samaria. In another part of the sermon, the pastor showed a slide of his wife, another western woman and two Nepalese women in a Nepalese village. The pastor said the western woman was the first person to introduce Christianity to a Nepalese village up a mountain twenty years ago. When she went, her guide turned back because it was too dangerous, but she went on. I was thinking that this church was rather like an American evangelist church. It reminded me of my strangest site visit when I worked as a computer programmer for a company that made broadcast equipment. The customer was a church in Canada that had their own television channel. They had bought some video servers and I had to tweak our software to work with the video servers. I watched a service from the computer room. At one point the pastor picked up a sword and started swinging it around. The pastor in today's service also had a prop. It was a balloon which he blew up until it burst, making a baby cry. At another point in the service, the pastor said there was good news regarding the state of Christianity and bad news. The bad news was that a lot of churches had dwindling, very elderly congregations, and that their ministers and officers were very thinly stretched. That reminded me very much of the United Reformed Church in Bury St Edmunds. The good news was that millions of bibles were bought last year. I bought a bible for toddlers last year. About three years ago I bought a New Version bible, and also a Latin Vulgate bible that included all the apopcryphal (spelling?) books. Unfortunately, when I went to collect Adrian he was lying on the floor. He had not been firing on all cylinders. I thought he was tired, because he had not slept well, but later he developed a nasty sounding cough and a temperature, and my step-father who is a retired G.P. recommended we take him to hospital, where he was treated for croup. At present he is sleeping it off in a hospital ward, but it looks like he is on the mend.

I finished it last night. It was alright, actually. The only thing is that while I was reading the first contact with the ghosts in bed, one of my wardrobe doors was opening by itself. I had to get out of bed to close it. I wouldn't normally read a book like that, because the cover would make me think it was romantic fiction. It is quite a cross genre novel. It is also one of the most Christian fictional books I have read. The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde was pretty Christian. I read Paradise Lost a year or so ago, which was very Christian, but I had difficulty understanding much of that.

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@Madeleine I think so too