September 2009
5 posts
Wide Loads
Organizers for the 2012 London Olympics have agreed to a designer´s recommendation that seats in the new 20,000-seat Aquatic Centre should be four centimetres wider and five centimetres deeper than originally planned, the British tabloid The Sun reported. The reason : increasing girth. The total population of Britain is less than 61 million, yet the number who are , by definition, obese, is...
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Grandparents and their influence
A quote from Margaret Mead who, I would guess, was the English-speaking world’s best-known anthropologist :
“The closest friends I have made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.”
I can only hope to live long enough to have a beneficial influence on the lives of my grandchildren Jacob and Alexanne.