My Daily Banana

Nosey Banana

 

 

Photo of the day:

There are still some around

 

 

Word of the day:

Inaugurate

Introduced to, to begin (Tony Blaire was inaugurated on the 2 nd May 1997)

German: einführen, einweihen

Tony Blair New Labour Party

 

Name of the day:

Anthony

English form of the Roman name Antonius meaning highly praiseworthy, could also come from the Greek anthos meaning flower.

Event of the day:

10th May 1994

Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president

Nelson Mandela
 First Black president of South Africa

Well that took a long time, until then a black country and a white leader. How could that last?

 

South African Apartheid

Here’s a poem that Mama once gave to me, it’s cut out of an Australian newspaper and was written by the most famous poet Anenymous. It has nothing to do with Mandela but it fits to the old Apartheid ruled South Africa (and America, and Australia and everywhere where the right wing whites breed)

Dear White Fella:

Couple of things you ought to know

Firstly,

When I am born, I’m black

When I grow up, I’m black

When I get sick, I’m black

When I go out ina sun, I’m black

When I’m cold, I’m black

And when I get scared, gee I’m black

When I die, I’m still black…

But you, white fella…

When you born, you pink

When you grow up, you white

When you get sick, you green

When you go out ina sun, you red

When you get cold, you go blue

When you get scared, you yellow

And when you die, you purple…

And you have the cheek to call me colored!

 

Birthday of the day:

10th May 1955

Mark David Chapman

The murder of John, may he rot in his cell.

Mug Shot Mark Chapman

Asking for an autogram

John as we knew him

 

On the 8th December 1980 he waited for John and Yoko on their way home to the Dakota House and shot him. He shot five times, four bullets landed in John’s back. What a waste? He killed one of the world’s best.

On 24th August 1981 he was sentenced to twenty-one years imprisonment for second degree murder. Today thirty-two years later he is still imprisoned, his next parole appeal is in 2014, I hope he stays there until he dies.

Died on this day:

10th May 2012

Carroll Shelby

Shelby in young years

Shelby designed and constructed the American muscle car: the Shelby G.T. 350 a modified Ford Mustang. He bought the cars from Ford and modified them with a heavier axle from the Ford Galaxie, stronger rear drum brakes, disc brakes on the front axle and a souped up engine. The car was not easy to drive then it was built for the racetrack. In later years Ford took over the manufacture of the Shelby Mustang and softened it up for road users.

Shelby G.T. 350 made for the racetrack

In the early sixties he also imported the British AC Cobra into America, but instead of the Ford Zephyr six cylinder 2.6 litre motor he had an eight cylinder Ford 4.3 litre motor built into the chassis.

 

AC Cobra modified by Schelby

Cycle ride of the day:

Between rainfalls I rode my cycle today. It was wet so I rode my trusty mule or cart horse, the Focus Jarifa. You will all know of the bicycle because of my dreary report of it yesterday. Well for the weather today it was perfect, wet, windy (south-west five to six Beaufort) and horrible. I wasn’t as fast as usual but I got the twenty-five kilometres behind me in an hour and six minutes. Fast enough for a “sit up and beg” bicycle.

The photo of the haulage preparation was supposed to be posted yesterday, but as I first shot it last evening I’m publishing it today. The other photo is of another fantastically painted transformer station in Risum-Lindholm. There seem to be four, I’ll publish all four in a future blog.

Road prepared for the heavy haulage

Transformer Station in Risum-Lindholm;
painted as to be a garage, it is stood next to Autohaus Bunge

 

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/496120927

 

Bye, see you all tomorrow. Have a good day