On This Day…
People are gradually ‘appearing out of the woodwork’. Cousin Tricia from MN USA ‘joined’ us yesterday. (She may have been around some time, but commented yesterday), welcome along!
The weather gets worse and worse and there is flooding all over the country… IT’S JUNE!!! At least we won’t get hosepipe bans… or will we.
There are evacuations in Sheffield where they fear a dam bursting and some people up to their chests in flood water, yuk!
On this day…
- Queen Elizabeth II and President Dwight D Eisenhower open St Lawrence Seaway (1959)
- JFK’s ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ speech (1963)
(Speech here) - The Pied Piper of Hamelin (legend) attracts 130 children away (1284)
- The bicycle is patented (1819)
- Christmas is declared a US federal Holiday (1870)
- The World’s tallest freestanding structure the CN Tower is opened in Toronto (1976)
Hatches, matches, despatches…
- Laurie Lee born (1914)
- Joseph Montgolfier dies (1912)
- Denis Thatcher dies (2003)
- Richard Whiteley dies (2005)
Weather = 
This actually is correct, but I’m sure it won’t last long. It’s more like March
Mood meter = 
Still running through some pretty boring stuff at work, sure it will improve
June 26th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Thanks for the Seaway link. There was lots of planned flooding near my home town (Cornwall, Ontario) when that was built, and several villages lost forever:
http://www.ghosttownpix.com/lostvillages/maps.shtml
June 26th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Wow, they took some land there, it’s amazing some of the roads now have the names of places that look like they don’t exist!