My daily banana

 

 

 

Photo of the day:

 

 

 

A Friesen door. The door is a carpenter’s master piece and the path with the two hedge rows running at ninety degrees to the door, artistic. That’s what you get when you can afford a landscape architect as-well-as a building engineer.

 

Word of the day:

 

taciturn

 

reserved or uncommunicative

German: schweigsam (kein Ackerschnacker)

 

Name of the day:

 

Ulysses

 

Latin form of Odysseus. Derived from the Greek odyssomai, and means „to hate" (Well, from now on I don’t like that name, imagine calling your newborn son "to Hate"?)

James Joyce used the name for the title of a book about a modernday anti-hero in, (was it Dublin?)

 

Birthday of the day:

 

26th April 570

 

Muhammed

 

founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. Other sources suggest April 20. Observed according to the Islamic lunar calendar

 

 

 

Died on this day:

 

26th April 1989

 

Lucille Ball

in Los Angelies, California, United States

 

Born 6th August 1911

in Jamestown, New York, United States

 

 comedienne (I Love Lucy), dies of heart attack at 78

 

 

 

 

Event of the day:

 

26th April 1986

 

Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl USSR explodes, 31 die. The follow up is also disastrous; it left burnt earth that can never be walked on by man again. A sarcophagus was built over the reactor but that is now porous and has to be renewed; a never ending epic disaster.

 

 

 

 

They never learn; look at Fukushima, Japan. How can an intelligent nation, like Japan, build a nuclear plant near a joint in the earth’s shelves? It wasn’t the earthquake that damaged the plant but the tsunami that was triggered off by it.

 

 

Macabre is; that Germany ruled to shut down all of its nuclear plants and turn Green because of this, Japan on the other hand is turning her plants on again.

 

Cycle ride of the day:

 

I arrived at the train crossing in Legerade and to my dismay they were closing. Oh well, a short pause after an hour of going flat-out, not a bad idea, but after five minutes a train rushed by and the level kept its position. Mist, another five to ten minutes of waiting, no thanks, the sweat on my skin is starting to form icicles (as a matter of speech, it’s seventeen degrees centigrade).

There’s a narrow dirt track running parallel to the tracks, I’m riding a cyclo-cross racer so the paths mine. The first time I’ve ever ridden a dirt-track on this bicycle. Wow, it was easy; I didn’t know I had that much control over my bike, when bent down grasping the bottom level bars.

After a mile or so, a bridge had to be crossed, the path is about fifteen degree steep with a hundred-eighty degree bend, three metre diameter. The climb isn’t the problem, it’s the bend. I was clicked into my pedals so I couldn’t put my feet down if it got tricky and it did, I was too slow and nearly tipped over, but nearly isn’t down kissing the ground, I recovered the bike and also managed that feat. I’m a hero;-)

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More again tomorrow, have a nice day, be happy:-)