RIP

May. 10th, 2010 06:20 pm
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92 years old. She had such a pure voice I think.

So Gordon Brown has bitten the bullet and stepped down as Labour Party Leader. Looks like the last attempt to have the Party hang on to power now that Nick Clegg is keeping his dance card open. This whole political vacuum is very disturbing. No party was elected with an absolute majority so both main parties are dancing round the Lib-Dem flame when the only have 56 seats. Either way the voters will be dissatisfied and any standing we still had in the world will be reduced again.

I am taking solace in the cricket now that KP is safely home being a daddy. Come on England!

The weather here is disappointing. It looked lovely and sunny in Brighton at the racing this afternoon and it is grey and chilly here. I'm blaming the volcano. This can't just be cloudy skies day after day surely.

That
History Cold Case
programme was quite interesting. It revolved around a medieval skeleton found in a burial ground in Ipswich. Turned out he was African, probably brought back from the Crusades. He died of a nasty abscess on his spine. The research was fascinating and of course stable isotopes and DNA played a crucial part in the identification of where he was from. This being Dundee University and not the Jeffersonian they had to wait 3 weeks for the results. Also the webcam link was very wobbly and had a delay. Ha! The realities v. television. This week's warns of upsetting scenes because the body is a mummified child from the 19th century. Sounds upsetting indeed.

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Date: 2010-05-11 03:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_missmargaret_/
The news about Lena made me very sad. I wrote a paper about her life in the 9th grade and discovered her voice and I've just adored her ever since.

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Date: 2010-05-11 09:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-mistletoe.livejournal.com
There were so many great singers of that era who had to overcome prejudice to be heard. I think her career would have been very different if she had been born in a different time.

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