Argh

Oh, my left shoulder and arm do ache and have done for a couple of days now. Not a deep, all consuming ache, but it does seem to be an abiding one.

Warmth applied to it helps immeasurably, and while I am curled under the duvet with it generously wrapped around that shoulder, all is well. But right now it's nagging me. Not badly, but persistently. I fear that I may have a touch of rheumatism. I dursent like it My Dears, no, not one bit. I dursent like it at all.

Still, today is my last day in the office for a fortnight. I can spend sixteen consecutive days under the duvet if I so wish.

Argh

Oh, my left shoulder and arm do ache and have done for a couple of days now. Not a deep, all consuming ache, but it does seem to be an abiding one.

Warmth applied to it helps immeasurably, and while I am curled under the duvet with it generously wrapped around that shoulder, all is well. But right now it's nagging me. Not badly, but persistently. I fear that I may have a touch of rheumatism. I dursent like it My Dears, no, not one bit. I dursent like it at all.

Still, today is my last day in the office for a fortnight. I can spend sixteen consecutive days under the duvet if I so wish.

Not over until it's over...

Pootling about online, I wandered onto Facebork to see if it was my turn in the Scrabble game I’m playing.

It wasn’t.

What I did find, however, was this link to the Daily Telegraph, posted by binidj.

It seems that sometime on Sunday, 3 October 2010, we can finally draw a line under the First World War a mere 92 years after the guns fell silent.

Germany was forced to pay the reparations at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 as compensation to the war-ravaged nations of Belgium and France and to pay the Allies some of the costs of waging what was then the bloodiest conflict in history, leaving nearly ten million soldiers dead.



The final payment of £59.5 million, writes off the crippling debt that was the price for one world war and which laid the foundations for another. The debt had been scaled down many times and would have been paid off many years ago, but no repayments were made between Hitler rising to power in 1933 and reunification in 1990.

From Sunday, The Great War really will belong in the history books.

Not over until it's over...

Pootling about online, I wandered onto Facebork to see if it was my turn in the Scrabble game I’m playing.

It wasn’t.

What I did find, however, was this link to the Daily Telegraph, posted by binidj.

It seems that sometime on Sunday, 3 October 2010, we can finally draw a line under the First World War a mere 92 years after the guns fell silent.

Germany was forced to pay the reparations at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 as compensation to the war-ravaged nations of Belgium and France and to pay the Allies some of the costs of waging what was then the bloodiest conflict in history, leaving nearly ten million soldiers dead.



The final payment of £59.5 million, writes off the crippling debt that was the price for one world war and which laid the foundations for another. The debt had been scaled down many times and would have been paid off many years ago, but no repayments were made between Hitler rising to power in 1933 and reunification in 1990.

From Sunday, The Great War really will belong in the history books.