Seasons – London Calling

Hello everyone! I went to London with Him Indoors, my sister and her husband. There we met our friends from Munich. We stayed near Trafalgar Square so we could walk everywhere. And boy, we walked! We walked to the Big Ben, 10 Downing Street, Piccadilly Circus, Covent Garden. We met our friends in Soho to have our Chinese meal.

We walked through Green Park to reach Buckingham Palace. There was a cavalry parade.

We took our time looking at some painting at the National Gallery Museum.

We went to Imperial War Museum and saw the story of those whose lives have been shaped by war from the First World War to the present day.

We took a barge from Embankment to Greenwich. We saw the Tower of London, the Shard, Parliament, Millennium Bridge and other places of interest.

Tower Bridge

We went to the National Maritime Museum – the world’s largest maritime museum with 10 free galleries and a vast collection that spans artworks, maps and charts, memorabilia and thousands of other objects. The uniform of General Nelson with a bullethole was there.

We stepped on the Prime Meridian in Greenwich

Greenwich

What made you smile this week?

For: Weekly Smile Week 23 – #weeklysmile, Thankful Thursday: Silver and Shiny, SEASONS – LOCAL JOCALS IN JUNE by jesh stg, Flames of the forest and more Echoes of my neighbourhood 22 by Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha, Three Things Thursday: June 9, 2016 by nerdinthebrain, Thursday’s Special: Traces of the Past Y2-03 by Paula, Skywatch Friday – 9 June 2016 Edition , Ten Things of Thankful 156 (Frivolyptic) #10Thankful by Lizzi

My Sister – Write Now!

Today’s Prompt:

He saw his sister’s number come up on the Caller ID and wondered what today’s conspiracy theory would be.

After the hellos and how you are small talk, my sister ventured out on her rhetoric. Supply and demand regulate nothing but the temporary fluctuations of market prices. That there’s no justice in this world. Few have them all and the rest of the world in poverty, she sighed in between each theory. Life today is a great sea of bustle and activity with everyone on the move. That if we don’t follow the trends, we’re out of it. Shifting to her friend who has got engaged to a pilot and they’re getting married in the summer. Then she dropped her voice and said that the said friend is also three months pregnant. I love my sister, to be honest and she’s so funny sometimes. I roar with laughter at some of the things she said. I don’t know where she’s getting all these ideas. Like the time when we were talking about life and death. She reckoned that a revenant returned only to steal away again with another. That they came back to caused havoc. She dismissed any other arguments.

For: Write Now Prompt for January 19, 2016 and Wordle 234 Jan 17 by brenda warren

To My Dear Sister – Happy Birthday!

Today’s my sister’s birthday – yay!!! So here’s greeting you wherever you are and wishing you all the best. Take care always, we’re thinking of you today… cheers!!!!

The Sisters
by Rainer Maria Rilke

Look how the same possibilities
unfold in their opposite demeanors,
as though one saw different ages
passing through two identical rooms.

Each thinks that she props up the other,
while resting wearily on her support;
and they can’t make use of one another,
for they cause blood to rest on blood,

when as in the former times they softly touch
and try, along the tree-lined walks,
to feel themselves conducted and to lead;
ah, the ways they go are not the same.