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I was looking back through the older posts in the blog today to be dismayed that all the early pictures are missing and need replacing. There were all originally hosted Facebook and is seems the linking doesn't work any more at all. I had noticed it before but thought it might be something that Facebook itself might fix and left it to sort itself out.
I would love to also post some of the early pictures of all the girls together, like this one from when Lucy was just a baby sitting on Catherine's knee. Although I have no date for when it was taken I know the location was the Adventure Playground at Rutland Water near the Sykes Lane visitor center and I can remember all four girls having a wonderful day together. Happy times indeed now very sadly passed and missed.
Hopefully over the summer I can get some time to at least replace the missing pictures and fill in the gaps. If time allows maybe it time to post some of those older pictures too before they get lost in the mists of time and memory.
In the last few days we have had two largish, by UK standards, earthquakes in the Oakham area, which have shock peoples houses and rattled peoples never to some extent.
The first of the two earthquakes measured 3.2 occurred on Thursday morning at 6:07 am and woke everyone up in the house, while the second was stronger and measured 3.5 and occurred today at 6:50 am. It was the first one that was more shocking than the second despite the fact it was slightly smaller. Maybe that was due to the fact that it woke us all up with the shacking of the house while the other was sightly later in the morning and was more like thunder with what appeared to be less shaking.
Both earthquakes were in the Ashwell area, rather than Oakham as reported in the press who managed to find some what they called terrified locals to give them interviews for the news paper. All the people I talked to were more matter of fact about it all and just curious to know and understand why they had occurred and if we were going to have a third even bigger quake. Like usual the National newspapers blew the whole thing up and sensationalised the whole thing, and that included the quality press too.
UPDATE 28th April 2014 - The third Earthquake arrived today at 10:05pm centered again in the Ashwell area. Much smaller than the other two at 1.7, didn't really feel anything, it was more sort and large clap of thunder.
UPDATE 25th July 2014 - Hopefully the final earthquake for a while which measure 1.5 occurred at 10:36am, this time located between Langham and Cold Overton. This time it was just more of a rumble rather than anything really noticeable.
No this has to be one of the hottest days of the year so far and long may the days like this stay with us until the summer really arrives to warm out hearts. Without outside temperatures beating the forecast highs and the skies so blue and the air so clean it always a lovely time of the year when you get weather like this after the winter.
The last of the daffodils are still in flower and these have now been joined by the deep beautiful red of the tulips that have started to flower making some of the places, were occasionally you find both, look so wonderful with there contrasting colours. It really is a lovely time of year with green shoots appearing in the gardens of flowers yet to come. There is the blosom of the trees, especially the cherry blossom so loved by the Japanese which looks so lovely in it's pink and white which is just starting to come to an end.
I hope this all means we are in for a good summer this year, unlike the summers of recent years. We could all do with some sunshine, especially the farmers come harvest time and those that were flooded earlier this year that need the ground water to return to the norm.
When someone famous dies it is always a bit of a shock but to hear of one that has died at the young age of 25 year age it really is quite shocking. That is what happened today with the announcement of the death of Peaches Geldof, who was found dead at her home in Kent.
In life she was, not only the second daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates, but she had worked as television personality, a model, and as a writer (which included writing for the Daily Telegraph and The Guardian). In addition to this she was a Mother with two young children who were with her in the house when she died.
It was lovely what Bob Geldof said in a statement in the press: "We are beyond pain. She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us. We loved her and will cherish her forever." My heart goes out to her family who must be in deepest shock today after the loss of one so young and with so much to give to the world.
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