What's new? Oh, it's us....

I looked on the news channel, expecting to see shootings in Syria, instead I saw filming from a helicopter not that far from where we used to live in Hackney, East London.

It's a bit of a shock to be centre stage on Al Jazeera!

When T came into the kitchen my advice was that if he were ever caught up in looting, for goodness sake do all he can to prevent people from starting fires. Looting is ethically bad, but fires are so very dangerous, just don't.

I have just been on Twitter and see that we are the light entertainment via the hashtag 'londonBHstyle'. To the West down the M4 I have Ian Henderson's estate and to the East I have London. I hope the harvest and the sheep round here don't attract attention.

Rapes of journalists working for us all

Sometimes one group is able to speak out to protect another. I am not a journalist, I do not work abroad in dangerous countries and I am not working in the field to get information out to the mainstream media about shifting political situations.

Since I am safely at home in the UK I will blog this link to a page written about rape of female journalists, maybe men have this horror too. Blessings to them all and a secure recovery with people they trust and who love them.

Power Of Facebook

Go and join this Facebook group to support Iman Al-Obeidi and call for her release.

Eye witness account

From the FT magazine this weekend, page 25, article written by David Pilling:

'The last person I speak to in the evacuation centre is Tomoya Kumagai, a 58-year-old fisherman who had been on his boat when the earthquake struck. "The boat always rocks, of course. But when there's a big earthquake, the water moves differently," he explains. "You get these triangular-type, jagged waves. I knew it was a big one. So I headed back to the dock."

  Mr Kumagai found his wife and mother-in-law and drove them to safety. From a hill, he saw everything clearly. He gives me the most vivid description of the tsunami I have heard yet. "The first wave was about seven metres tall," he says. "It didn't make it over the defence wall. But then it sucked out to sea and it came in a second time. The amount of water doubled and it broke the wall. It came in many times after that, four big ones. Once the water came onto the land, it didn't flow back because more kept pouring in from the ocean." '

News/Al Jazeera/Change

T and H have been unsettled by the news I have been watching.

Now the tv is off down here in the kitchen and sitting room. I want to follow what is happening, but they don't. I should have thought of that.

Now I catch up on a blog which is frequently updated, so they don't see or hear anything.

Faith

Seeing the miners' rescue and the emphasis put on faith is humbling. My children's great grandfather was a miner in the Durham area. I will ask my mother-in-law some questions about what she remembers of her father.