My Daily Banana

Freitag, 8. August 2014

My Daily Banana

Photo of the Day:

A reflection of the Michel Dom in Hamburg
We went there last year for a long weekend.
It's a great city well worth visiting

The crown of the Kempinski Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg

Event of the Day:

8th August 1963

The Great Train Robbery

The 15 "gentleman" robbers stopped the post train from London to Glasgow and robbed its treasure. That was £2.8 million, today that would be £48 million or €60.5 million.

They didn't have much fun with the money because most of them were caught shortly after and received sentences of up to 30 years imprisonment.

Ronald Biggs escaped after 15 months and lived the life of a fugitive until May 2001 when he returned to the United Kingdom to face-up to justice. He thought, because he was ill he would be paroled, but it didn't work; he was imprisoned until August 2009.

Birthday of the Day:

8th August 1983

Angelika Czedik-Eysenberg

Angelika with Johanna, the photo is from March this year

and her daughter/my granddaughter

Johanna Ada Czedik-Eysenberg she was born 8th August 2012

Sweet little Johanna

the lovely little girl is now two years old XXX <3

Died on this Day:

8th August 1863

Angus MacAskill

A giant of a man 7 feet 9 inches (236.2 cm). He died at thirty-eight diagnosed by the doctor as having brain fever.

Thoughts:

My thoughts are in their weekend mode; lazy and in need of sleep.

Something is in the air today, my eyes are itching and I'm sneezing. That brings me to a thought: How does the sneeze rhyme go?

One's a wish,

Two's a kiss,

Three's a disappointment,

Four's a letter,

Five is something better

Six is gold

Seven's a story never to be told

I Googled the rhyme and found so many variations, my résumé is: the first two lines are always the same, but the rest you can put together as you wish.

Do you know a better version Sylvia?