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Blue Faces all round.

Kool Knights

Blue Faces.

Wales

A Journey from Reading to Cardigan.
Kool Knights.

Of course Lord Cardigan from Wales invented Cardigans,just as the Earl of Sandwich
invented sandwiches.


The train was delayed for four hours on Reading station.waiting was BORING!

A fearsome guy was knocking back Drambuie.

Join me...........Nothing else to do so I knocked back the Coca-Cola to celebrate his birthday.
He looked a bit intimidating,he turned out to be a Commander of Knights,his name was....

Commander Gobshite.

On the train there were lots of blue faces,that was his army from Cardiff in Wales.
We arrived at Cardiff at 4 am,and I slept on his sofa,waking up to bacon and eggs in the morning.

Next day traveled to Cardigan to stay in my friends cottage on the Cardigan estuary,that was the view from my bedroom window,and the castle on the other side of the river.


The Real Knights.Hot Knights.

Malt is a hot country.

A small island in the Mediterranean.

Built by a French Knight La Valletta.born:1494.He joined the order of St John of Jerusalem.

Was captured by the Ottoman Turks and rowed the gallies as a slave.
Few survived more than two years,but LA Vallette was six ft tall and very strong.
Some say he escaped and others that he was an exchanged prisoner.

He became the Grand Master of Malta and fought the corsairs in the sea around Malta.
The siege of Malta was1565.500 Knights fought 40,000 Turkish invaders.Finally
When only 19 knights were left defending the Turks left,never to return.


Vallette designed a new fortified city ro defend against warfare,but war changed its fighting techniques.


The heritage of La Vallette was a city of architectural beauty,a city built for gentlemen for gentlemen.

The order of the Knights of St John exists till this day.

The knights

Photos include:Welsh Knights and Knights of Malta.

Cardigan and the island of Malta.









attended the sick.The knights were hospitaliers.



 Valletta was designed as a fortification....a city for gentlemen,the first modern city in the world.

He left a beautiful architectural city,and the heritage of a grand history and the Knights of Malta,an organization that exists today.

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The sky is why I've always came back to Oklahoma

You don't see this in California




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Three women who made a difference.

Even an ordinary person can influence others.

Claire Bertschinger.Worked longer in the front line of war zones than any other person.
Struggled with dislexia,and was considered a dunce,until her mother read about dislexia when Claire was in her twenties.

She struggled so much with studies it nearly hampered her Nursing career.

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Xenia Dennen.
Married to an Anglican priest The Rev: Lyle Dennen from Joy Street Boston.

She became the Bette Noire of the KGB.
In one photo she is wearing my thrift store back fur coat that I donated for he cold travels from east to west across Russia.

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Zeta Daysh
A New Zealander
The first person in the world to start an Ecology movement.
She died aged 97 still working 7/7 till a few months before leaving us.

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The art of Living..Living for Art.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TETgHZf6ho0


One day at a bus stop I met an Italian girl,she asked me about the bus timetable as the bus was late.I replied in Italian that the timetable was for decoration,

The bus was so late that we had time to become friends.She was restoring a church in the capital city.
Just like Michel Angelo  she was working on the ceiling lying on a high scaffold at great height.
I had always considered this my ideal job until I saw how uncomfortable it was,under bright hot lights mid summer,scheduled breaks,and long hours.What dedication.

The video was from Skin,if you watch carefully you can watch my best friends restoration in the buildings in the video,she was Vatican trained. This restoration is in the video.













This is my kitchen,my derelict house became my canvas.





















My derelict house became my canvas,again balancing on ladders for hours,but I could take breaks when needed.









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