September 2017
Friday, 1st September 2017
Front-page story
This photograph appeared on the front page of the newspaper twenty years ago today.
Do you recognise anyone in the photo? Well, for a start I am in the photo, the chap with the dark hair, dark beard and white shirt on the right. But the photo wasn’t there because of me. It was rather because of the lady in the broad-brimmed hat and pleated dress who is standing centre-left. That lady, Diana, Princess of Wales, was tragically killed in a road accident in Paris on 31st August 1997 and the following day the newspaper - the Cameroon Tribune - printed this photo. It was a photo which they had already printed over seven years earlier, in March 1990.
How that photo came to be there, and how I came to appear in it, you can read about by clicking here. (The article is one which I wrote for my students as a sample of how to write a narrative).
Since the photo is in black and white, the question arises what colour the Princess's dress was. As far as I can remember it was primrose yellow.
And while the Prince of Wales was cheerfully talking to the crowd, what was the Princess staring at?
To see a full size copy of the photo, click here.
Do you recognise anyone in the photo? Well, for a start I am in the photo, the chap with the dark hair, dark beard and white shirt on the right. But the photo wasn’t there because of me. It was rather because of the lady in the broad-brimmed hat and pleated dress who is standing centre-left. That lady, Diana, Princess of Wales, was tragically killed in a road accident in Paris on 31st August 1997 and the following day the newspaper - the Cameroon Tribune - printed this photo. It was a photo which they had already printed over seven years earlier, in March 1990.
How that photo came to be there, and how I came to appear in it, you can read about by clicking here. (The article is one which I wrote for my students as a sample of how to write a narrative).
Since the photo is in black and white, the question arises what colour the Princess's dress was. As far as I can remember it was primrose yellow.
And while the Prince of Wales was cheerfully talking to the crowd, what was the Princess staring at?
To see a full size copy of the photo, click here.
Thruppence
Last month I told you that my UK bank had credited me with tuppence (that is two new pence) interest on my saving’s account. (Read about it).
Today I can report that they credited me with thruppence (threepence, or three new pence, if you prefer). I can’t complain: a fifty per cent increase in interest isn’t bad, is it?
Today I can report that they credited me with thruppence (threepence, or three new pence, if you prefer). I can’t complain: a fifty per cent increase in interest isn’t bad, is it?
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(New address from 24th March 2018)
(New address from 24th March 2018)
If you are travelling from Rüti / Wolfhausen, drive past the Hombrechtikon place-name sign for about 300 metres and turn right into Tödistrasse, just before the Tobel bus stop.
Approaching from Hombrechtikon
If you are approaching from the centre of Hombrechtikon, follow the signs to Rüti. At the Tobel junction (the Methodist Church is on the left) turn left. Tödistrasse is the next turning on the left, just past the Tobel bus stop.
The entrance to our new flat is about 100 metres from the junction with Rütistrasse, on the left-hand side of the road.
The house number is number 9 and we are on the first floor.
There are a few visitor’s parking bays a short distance beyond the entrance, on the left.
There are a few visitor’s parking bays a short distance beyond the entrance, on the left.
Arriving by bus
If you arrive by bus from Bubikon, get off the bus at Tobel and follow Tödiweg until you get to Tödistrasse. Our house is on the right.