Goodness, this has been hard work today. When I changed my tv company back in June I told the providers, Dish Network, to collect their equipment, I would leave it on my porch. And it has languished there since then. Then at the end of last week I discover, without any by or leave, that they snatched $243 out of my bank account for said equipment. The last thing I wanted to do was risk a fall carrying these big boxes down my porch steps, but felt I now had no choice, and did so very gingerly. Then I struggled to open - with my hands full - the door of the local office, and threw them in.
I'll give them a day or so to refund the money to my account.
Before that though I took the flowers from Emmanuel to the hospital and had lunch with Bill and another chaplain, and that was very nice.
This day in history..........
| 1971 | Two women are tarred and feathered in Belfast for dating British soldiers.
I remember that. I do sometimes forget though Northern Irish antipathy to the British, I just remember the tremendous kindness of all the people I knew in the Irish Republic toward myself and my father, who lived there. There's an Irish-American woman who lived in Shawnee, but has recently moved away, who was always very hostile toward me, and her husband murmured once, very quietly - so quietly I afterward wondered if I'd heard right - that she is anti British.
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| 1941 | Churchill promises to join the U.S. "within the hour" in the event of war with Japan. I don't know who is being sceptical here, me or Churchill. Didn't the US 'join us' after they were bombed in Pearl Harbour?
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There are said to be as many rodents in New York as people. Although someone said they don't know how they were counted.
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