My daily banana

Selfie of the week:

Photo of the day:  

Word of the day:

dewdrop

air condensed on a cold surface forming a water droplet

Translation German: Tautröpfchen

Name of the day:

Sibel

in Arabia the name means "Raindrops between heaven and earth that will never fall upon earths surface"

Birthday of the day:

Guy Fawkes

born 13th April 1570

in York, England

died 31st January 1606 Westminster, England

conspired to blowup the Houses of Parliament in London

Died today in history:

Emil Nolde

died 13th April 1956

in Seebüll, Nordfriesland, Germany

german expressionist

born 7th August 1867 in Schleswig, Germany

Todays event in history:

13th April 1741

Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich, London, England

(that's where I did my initial training back in 1970, Gunner Raymond Martin, Royal Artillery. Unhappily I only lasted one year as a Gunner, then the Army threw me out due to asthma.)

Todays cycling:

I fought an hour through the gusty wind, it was nice and sunny though and twelve degrees centigrade warm. Twenty four kilometers in 1hr 6min, not fast but lets face it I'm over the sixties mark (that's a subtle way of asking for praise).

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/479093063

More again tomorrow, smile :-)