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Hello to you all I'm not in London but by the sea in Dorset. Today the weather is absolutely lovely warm, sunny, not humid or windy. Rare days.
I have told you before about my love of donuts. When I was a child donuts were covered in sugar and a blob of jam in the middle. The jam was always in one place so if you were sharing you had to really hope that the jam was in the middle.
Donuts have made a comeback and are ludicrously expensive costing about £4-5 each. I'm especially fond of donuts filled with creme patisserie. However I was surprised to learn that a raccoon loved donuts too, so much so that he broke into a bakery and helped himself. Makes my anecdotes about the squirrel seem tame. He was caught on video taking his time making a favourite selection.
This week I also read about a brown bear who strolled into a bakery in America. He stole a cupcake and enjoyed it so much that he stole a box of sixty and ate the lot.
I'm not the only one who loves donuts.
A man called Joey Chestnut won the record for the amount of donuts he consumed in a competition. Two hundred and seventy five!!
I hope I haven't tempted you to rush out to dunkin donuts.
Take care over and out London

Peace



I hope that you are all well, here in London it is a really lovely temperature and it’s good as it’s a bank holiday weekend and as it usually rains on bank holidays. So first of all I wanted to tell you all how sorry I was to hear about the death of Tina Turner. I’m sure many of you will have enjoyed her singing and dancing over so many decades. She was a remarkably brave woman and so honest. She overcame years of domestic abuse and to create a new career for herself. Her music has given me a lot of joy.
I’m sure you all remember images of Tom Daly knitting at the Tokyo olympics. I saw a beautiful image of knitting, which reminded me of Tom knitting. The image I saw was of hands with people dangling from them. It transpired that it was art work crated by a thirteen year old called Anya from Slovenia. She’d won the Lion club International peace poster competition. I had never heard of the Lions club, apparently the club stand for peace and understanding and aim to promote peace and understanding and encourage unity through kindness. Peace is a solution to conflict. What wonderful values. I wish our world leaders could learn from this.
Anya won the competition, there were 60,000 entries from all over the world. Children can enter the competition if they are 11 to 13. The Lions use art as the medium through which children can share their vision of peace. This year the theme was We are Connected. All entrants receive the materials for free.
Anya said of her work my poster represents the earth, which connects us, and the people are all holding hands,if one person lets go the rest will fall. What an amazing young person I want the world to be in her hands, she brings us hope.
The dove is seen as a symbol of peace it is a symbol that has been used in Ancient Greek mythology and Christianity.
So bloggers here’s hoping for peace, take care over and out London .

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Hedgehogs and statues


Hi bloggers hope all is well, Japan is in the news the G7 , I’m sure that there must be a lot of coverage on your television too. I also noticed that you are having strange weather patterns it’s global isn’t it. It’s similar here one day cold then really hot. Global warming is well and truly present. Animals have again caught my attention, always they bring some joy I think.
The first story I read was about a fundraising campaign, to build a statue of a duck called Long Boi. The duck became a favourite of the university students at York, due to his unusually long neck, he became a media sensation after students posted videos of him. Long Boi is a cross between a mallard and Indian runner duck. However he hasn’t been seen for two months so is presumed dead. The students hope to raise £10,000, but they also hope to raise awareness, about the importance of taking care of animals who bring us pleasure.
There’s been a focus in the news about the decline in the UK’s hedgehog population . A family run hedgehog sanctuary called Hornbeam Wood in Hertfordshire (there are others in the UK) is a charity dedicated to rehabilitating injured hedgehogs, and returning them to the wild. They look after hedgehogs, that due to urbanisation have lost their habitat. There is no place left for them to forage and roam for food. They rely on public donations to buy food and medical supplies. The sanctuary has ten acres of land, it has special pens in the garden created to keep the hedgehogs safe. The aim is to return the hedgehogs to the wild, however if their injuries are too serious they remain in the sanctuary.
Local schools and community groups assist with the work and they also try and educate the public about how they can make their garden hedgehog friendly. For example cover your pond with netting so the hedgehogs don’t drown.
Their work is really important as the UK’s hedgehog population has radically declined.
I love hedgehogs and I wish I had one visiting instead of a pesky squirrel. By the way I discovered that baby hedgehogs are called hoglets a sweet name.
I hope you have a good week over and out London.













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