Reflecting And Musing.

Street Child helping the worlds poorest CHILDREN get some education

Give before 21st Feb and public donations to Street Child’s ‘Count Me In’ campaign will be matched by the UK Government.

I discovered STREET CHILD recently and decided I would give a plug to boost coberage for the COUNT ME IN appeal

https://www.street-child.co.uk/

Soar a magical collaboration Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita

Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita have made magical music on their latest joint musical project together. I think it was on the Kate Bottley Good Morning Sunday radio show (Sunday morning Radio 4) that I first heard the wonderful music they make. An unlikely pairing a Senegalese kora player and a Welsh Harpist of considerable talent but if you take the trouble to seek out their music I can assure you that you will be pleasantly surprised. I know I am an old man and have more of an ear for Rock n Roll than classical music, but my mind and ears are open and I have found their work peaceful and easy listening,
I have never heard the term AFROPOP before. So I have spent a few hours surfing the web.All photos etc are from the web Google Images etc. The album Soar is evidently the second offering by Finch and Keita and as I type this I am listening to Catrin Finch play her harp on my Alexa. All this stuff is out there you just need to have the desire to seek it out. If you do as I have I hope you like me will listen and enjoy something which is both ancient and new.

Further reading here http://afropop.org/articles/soar

Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) on 27 January

I am appalled by the figures on the radio about holocaust denial. I find it hard to believe the one single most horrific attempt to eradicate Jewish people simply because of their faith. There are many aspects to why the German Nazi party wanted to murder Jews and to stop history being repeated we need to look at the past. I am not going into great detail here as there is so much information available, I just wanted to say that over six million Jews were slaughtered and some say these figures are woefully low, we need to remember that the horrors of the past happened because no one stopped it starting!
read more here

2019 Beach Cleans start at Pegwell Bay, Cliffsend at 10am, Sat. 26 Jan.

FROM TWITTER

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2019 Beach Cleans start at Pegwell Bay, Cliffsend at 10am, Sat. 26 Jan. Would you like to help within the National Nature Reserve? Or join in/ organise your own along the Thanet Coast? @mcsuk Thanks to support: @BeASeaChanger & @SouthernWater More info: http://nekmpa.org.uk/how-to-help/beach-cleans/ …

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New Year New New start

I ditched all of my blogs last year and now regret having done so😟. But the past is gone I tried to retrieve them and they are gone victims of my own inadequacies. I am not going back to blogging like I did but I hope 2019 will be better than 2018.

Promote and protect our Indipendent shops

I used to run the Promote Thanet Blog for about 8 years until closing it earlier this year. Just because I stopped blogging about Thanet means I am no less passionate about the area and it's independent shops and businesses it was because I was suffering with my Multiple Sclerosis and not feeling as if I was to do it anymore. This blog is not about anything so posts here are possibly easier to write. Todays offering is about shopping local to support the local independent businesses and as we run up to Christmas there is SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY on 1st of December. I am writing to jog your brain to remind you to use them or loose them.