My Daily Banana
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| Highland Banana |
Photo of the
day:
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| Another well kept Thatched farm houe, it dates back to about 1800 |
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| Nice touch with the flowers. See the pantry built below in a half cellar? |
Word of the day:
Euphoric
A feeling of
great happiness
German:
euphorisch
Name of the day:
Eric
Comes from the
Danish name Eiríkr and means ruler
Event of the
day:
11th May 1985
(this is
something new to me)
Bradford City Stadium
Fire:
It was a third league match, Bradford City against Lincoln City. Bradford
City was to receive the Third League Cup and therefore the stadium was sold
out, there had never been such a large crowd in the Valley Parade Stadium before.
The main tribune of the
Valley Parade stadium was dated back to 1903 and was condemned and due to be
demolished, under the seats the debris was piling high. At 3:40 pm the television-reporter
announced in alarm, that a small fire had been sighted. Within four minutes the
wind ignited it to a major fire, engulfing the whole tribune. Panic struck home
and the crowd fled, trampling many of the still seated spectators. Fifty-six
spectators died and at least two hundred and sixty-five were injured.
After this tragedy the
British stadium standards were changed, all wooden roof constructions were
forbidden.
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| Memorial to remember the casualties of the fire |
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| The new Valley Parade Stadium |
Birthday of the
day:
11th May 1904
in Figueres, Spain
Died 23rd January 1989
in Fifueres, Spain
Salvador Dali
Surrealist
painter, sculptor and performer.
I loved his
melting clocks. There’s one story that comes to mind when I hear his name:
Salvador arrived at an exhibition in his Rolls Royce, the door was opened but
instead of Dali stepping out, cabbages spilled out of the car. The car was
stuffed to the limit with heads of white cabbage and Dali hid underneath. Not a
very dramatical scene but it shows what a childish imagination Dali managed to
keep and show throughout his life; whereas I lost it when I grew up.
When I was a
tripper, I was fascinated by his paintings, they tell so many stories
grotesque, fierce, loving and sometimes mellow. I could explore a painting for
hours.
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| Here's a collection of perfume bottles we collected. They are formed after the painting: Apparition-of-the-Face-of-Aphrodite |
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| Apparition-of-the-Face-of-Aphrodite |
Another Birthday
of the day:
11th May 1941
in Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Eric Burdon
Singer of the
Animals! Who doesn’t know the hit where he sings:
“My Mother was a tailor,
She sewed my new
blue jeans,
My Father was a
gambling man,
Down in New
Orleans”
Of course it’s
“the House of the Rising Sun”
Died on this
day:
11th May 1981
in Miami, Florida, United States
Born 6th February 1945
in Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica
Bob Marley
Jamaican reggae
singer and song writer. He or should I say his inheritors are the third of the
top earners (US$18 million) after Michael Jackson (US$160 million) and Elvis
Presley (US$55 million).
The ironic thing
about Bob Marley’s death is his vanity. Bob had skin cancer, the carcinoma
started on his foot but he refused treatment; the radioactive/chemo therapy
could have caused baldness. He didn’t want to lose his dreadlocks.
Is that
possible? Had he never heard of wigs? What a waste!
Cycle ride of
the day:
Today we, Heike
and I are looking after our grandchildren Fentje and Martje. Heike went
straight there in the car and I did round on the bicycle with a detour that
landed me at Kirsty’s house. The three girls were playing quietly with plastercine
at the kitchen table, but when I arrived all hell let loose, the two little
ones were so happy to see me. Well the first moment was great, such a greeting
I thought “nice, but now you can cool down again” (I was knackered from cycling
and needed a rest first). The only thing is kids don’t cool down immediately so
there was nothing for me to do other than grit my teeth and bare it. I did and
a couple of minutes later the euphoric feelings had simmered down.
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| Two wild ones |
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| and two new friends |
Bye, see you all
tomorrow. Have a good day
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