5 Nov 2012

WHAT DID YOU DO THIS WEEKEND ?



Helps you to remember what you have done on the weekend of November 3. If you participate please put the little logo on the top of your post and leave your link.


What a "wonderful" weekend ! It's a miracle that I still have feet instead of flippers ! I got a text from the store where I had my camera repaired and it was finally ready after one month !



After my Saturday morning chat with Toby,



I drove through a rather wet Waterloo, and it was nearly dark at only 3.30 pm ! I took some pictures out of the car without any accident, taking photos is allowed but mobile calls not, when you are cought, you get a fine of 100 € !



In the store was a rather strange client ...



There were so many people waiting in a loooong line to pick up repaired things, so I took the opportunity to sit on these massage chairs and had a nice massage for half an hour. I had never tried it in this store and I have to say it was really very good. It's a pity that these chairs are so expensive.

Finally it was my turn to pick up my camera and now I hope it works again, I haven't tried it yet.
As the store is very close from Nicole's home, I payed her a little visit again, very appreciated by dog Charly, as he knows when I come, there are cookies !

On Sunday it wasn't better, still rain,  I wonder where all this water is coming from.
Mr. G. was again virtually in Dubai to watch his Formular 1and I thought I needed a new case for my repaired camera.



Sundays all stores and shops are closed,  except the Indian one. I went there on a little tour and bought my case. I didn't find anything else and went home again.



It looks very pretty and at least nobody will guess that there is a camera inside.

A little later Christiane a friend picked me up to go to an Exposition in Waterloo where 4 female artists showed illustrations for children books. The exposition was called "Image in texts" and one artist I kew from Art School.

Marie de Salle she is a quiet well known artist and also works for sick children in a hospital.



Her books and illustrations are adorable, we chatted together about old times when we were in Art school and it was a real nice exposition. I will write more about it later.

Christiane drove me home again, meanwhile Mr. G. had finished with his stay in Dubai so we had some coffee together and complained about the rain and cold  ! Fortunately inside it was cosy and warm.

My repaired camera seems to work well, because the last pictures I haven taken with it.

4 Nov 2012

DONA NOBIS PACEM - BLOG FOR PEACE



Dona Nobis Pacem means "Grant us Peace" in Latin.

Wars in the name of Religion have always been a good excuse for men to distroy each other ! No matter to whatever religion they belong ! They asked God in French, German, English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian etc to let them win the war and fought against each other ! Poor God / Allah  ! He must be quiet confused !

Not all people know that Allah is the word for God in Arabic, the word means simply "the God." It is used mainly by Muslims, Arab Christians, and often, albeit not exclusively, by Arabic-speakers, Indonesian, Malaysian and Maltese Christians, Mizrahi Jews and Sikhs. (source : Wikipedia)

Religion wars started already with the Crusades, in 11th, 12th, and 13th-century religiously sanctioned military campaigns waged by much of Christian Europe against Muslim Persia and Middle East.

List of major religious wars

The figures below include the deaths of civilians from diseases, famine, etc., as well as deaths of soldiers in battle and possible massacres and genocide.

Crusades
Holy Land, Europe 1095-1291 Islam and Christian
3,000,000 victims

Thirty Years' War
Holy Roman Empire 1618-1648 Protestants and Catholics
11,500,000 victims

French Wars of Religion 
France 1562-1598 Protestants and Catholics
4,000,000 victims

Second Sudanese Civil War

Sudan 1983-2005 Islam and Christian
2,000,000 victims

Lebanese Civil War

Lebanon 1975-1990 Sunni, Shiite and Christian
250,000 victims

And still today wars continue in the name of God or Allah as an excuse !

So let's all meet together on Mimi Lenox Blog For Peace she has created in 2006 ! It is an online global peace initiative which hosts 60 countries and has been celebrated by thousands of people online, She understood the enormous significance and influence of blogs and websites on our society, our consciousness, and on this planet now deemed a global society.