Perry Como had this hit No. 1 in 1949 – where you spot your beloved for the first time across a darkened room during an enchanted evening…
Well, this is 2008, and a real 21 yr old lad spotted his beau across the New York subway. He lost her in the crowd, but set up a website to look for her.
Incredibly, in this city of 8 million people, he located her within 48 hours with the help of New Yorkers still not hardened enough to ignore good old romance when they see one – live.
“The boss of a wedding shop needed a bodyguard to protect her from angry brides when they were left without dresses after the business went into liquidation.” – full report in the Guardian, UK.
Who says brides are feminine, demure, and all the other pleasant adjectives that go with them?
At a creditors’ meeting, the owner was met with “seething brides”. Some had ordered their wedding dresses months beforehand, and had to dish out additional money to make new dresses when they were left high and dry when the shop closed. One bride reported she was ‘hysterical’ on learning on the internet that had the shop closed.
So…grooms or otherwise, take the advice of the liquidator who was quoted – “I think getting a bodyguard was possibly the correct decision for her. Don’t mess with brides is all I can say.”
Graham was fifteen when he was home with just his mother and her visitor. His mother had a fit and died as a result of it. For years thereafter, he felt he should have been able to do more to prevent his mother’s death. Guilt. He fell into depression as an adult.
Emotional shut down, self-pity were two of his defensive tools to cope. Then :
“I finally decided to change my mind.
Although I’d faced my depression I had steadfastly, from day one, refused to cite my mum’s death as the cause of any of my problems. It seemed too obvious, too complacent. Above all it felt too much like blaming her. It wasn’t the only reason but it was by far the major one, and to admit that was a huge relief. I allowed myself. It wasn’t her fault. But it had happened, and it had hurt.”
Clare was sent back to her father when her mother realised Clare was not her daughter from her current marriage, but from her ex-husband.
By Clare’s own account, her father sacrificed and brought her up well. Her internalized anger at her mother exploded into teenaged drug abuse and rejection of her father.
Now an adult in her late twenties, she writes what all this has done with her relationship with her father and her mother.
Among which, she writes she learnt forgiveness from her father.
You are looking at a painting that has been bought for Pound.Sterling40.1million.
Guardian, UK reports “..It moved up in £500,000 leaps until ending in a fight between three bidders, two on the telephone and one woman at the front of the room.”
Who won the auction? Read the news in full. Also, find out who buys at such a high level, and what wealth they own.
The BBC reports that from a survey of 90,000 cars around the globe, Japanese cars are found to be the most reliable. What is average? Well, top makes like BMW, Mercedes and Audi. Honda, Toyota and Daihatsu are the top three.
The Guardian, UK reported that the man behind the pictures of the ‘lost tribe’ has admitted that the ‘lost tribe’ has in fact been known since 1902. He disclosed that he had described them as a lost tribe just found in order to stop logging around that area.
Is it justifiable, to be dishonest for a good cause?
“They are the amazing pictures that were beamed around the globe: a handful of warriors from an ‘undiscovered tribe‘ in the rainforest on the Brazilian-Peruvian border brandishing bows and arrows at the aircraft that photographed them.
Or so the story was told and sold. But it has now emerged that, far from being unknown, the tribe’s existence has been noted since 1910 and the mission to photograph them was undertaken in order to prove that ‘uncontacted’ tribes still existed in an area endangered by the menace of the logging industry.
The disclosures have been made by the man behind the pictures, José Carlos Meirelles, 61, one of the handful of sertanistas – experts on indigenous tribes – working for the Brazilian Indian Protection Agency, Funai, which is dedicated to searching out remote tribes and protecting them.” – Guardian, UK.
..your mascara! Yes, Guardian, UK reports that – believe it or not – “..Estée Lauder will be launching a battery-operated, vibrating mascara in the US..” !
You must realise, of course, it is how one sweeps your eyelashes that counts!
Read the full article at the link above to get the impact of this invention.
“There is no doubt that we are at an unsettled moment in the Church of England,” said Fittall. “This was always going to be a big summer. [The] Lambeth [conference of bishops] is a big event in the wider communion and the fact that it is considering women bishops goes to the heart of what kind of church we want to be. The weekend’s story has caused further anxiety on the part of many.”
He was responding to the Bishop of London’s decision to order an investigation into the “marriage” last month between two gay priests, the Rev Peter Cowell and the Rev David Lord, who exchanged rings and vows at St Bartholomew the Great church in the City of London.”
Do you agree with women being ordained and gays being married in church?
“A street-sweeping truck has sucked a dog up through its bristles on a New York street, leaving its horrified owner holding nothing but the lead…” – BBC reports on its website.
Ginger (centre) in the above photo from BBC, the poor dog that got sucked up in the street sweeper truck in New York.
Robert Machin, 57, the owner is considering contacting his lawyer and the Humane Society.
