Hi to everybody...woke up to bucketing rain around 7.30, went back to sleep for another hour and woke up again to more rain, and it's still bloody raining now...damn this weather...Listened to the Reith Lecture called Chinese Vistas at 9, and it was about the reinstatement of Confucius by the Chinese government...schools are opening around the world to teach people about his thoughts...the lecture itself was fine, but the audience then had a chance to ask the lecturer questions...the Catholic Cardinal, the Anglican Archbishop, Paddy Ashdown and an Amnesty International rep each asked a question?? Hubby and I both thought that was really out of order...all four were only interested in criticizing China and were only interested in their perspective of it...nobody from the general public had a chance to ask a question which suggested that the entire audience was either invited or nobody from the general public had attended...hmmm...really annoyed us...the strange this was...many years ago in the late seventies to early eighties we used to get a newspaper directly from China reporting on events there for the wider world, I can recall writing a letter to somebody in the Chinese government asking whether they had rejected Confucius because his thoughts struck me as still very relevant today...I didn't get an answer, but now forty or so years later, the Chinese have restored Confucius...LOL...everything comes to he or she who waits....
Hubby's back to work today, so it's just an ordinary day again...he sleeps in the afternoon and I do my own thing...
Hope you're having a bit of sun, and have a good day...great big hugs to one and all in the meantime...
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- 03.06.2008 @ 13:18:41
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- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 03.06.2008 @ 15:12:14
Oh, well I'm glad somebody's got some sun...it's cold here...I cast a clout now May is out and shouldn't have done...going back to my thermals I think...LOL...and invitees only is bad...great big hugs...
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- 03.06.2008 @ 20:49:59
Good to see them appreciating their own culture, more.
Your programme sounds a lot like some of the talk-radio programmes over here, on our AM stations, which are mostly run by neo-conservative republican (Bush) supporters. I stopped listening to them, because anytime someone came on with an opposing viewpoint, the host would either mock them, or not let the person speak...so much for democracy, ey?-
- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 03.06.2008 @ 21:18:51
What was so annoying was that he clearly expected to be asked about Confucius and nobody asked him anything at about him...all the questions were about Christianity from the two clerics and human rights from the Amnesty International and I've forgotten what Paddy Ashdown asked...LOL...must have been very relevant...not! He was flummoxed by most of the questions because completely aside to the subject of his lecture...damned rude I call that...there's two or three more on about China with different audiences...I hope all of them aren't full of people with personal damned agendas...great big hugs..
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- 03.06.2008 @ 22:39:18
Just got to say Jen that it has been another beautiful day up here, just finished watering the garden, it's not something that I get to say very often.
China. Changes are happening, is it because of the Olympics? will it revert to a more private country after the games?-
- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 03.06.2008 @ 23:24:00
No, it's opening out now and nothing will stop it...saw a very interesting architecture prog tonight on Shanghai and all the building that's going on there...amazing!! Also saw after it, an even more interesting second part on architecture for humanity where there's an Italian architect working in Austin, Texas, who takes his students out for hands on architecture amongst people with very little money, like the Yaqui Indians, and helps start them off with building homes of their own, and teaches them how to return to old ways of building like using adobe bricks...and then he's gone into the poor part of Austin and is helping build cheap but very energy efficient homes and to start renovating their run down areas...really hopeful and lovely programme....great big hugs...
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- 04.06.2008 @ 02:20:46
It rained all day today here in Menoland and I must say pooo to the rain.
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I think the audience at those sort of events tend to be invitees only. It's a shame they couldn't have made the questions on topic: not everything has to be about politics all the time, surely?
Sunshine here, btw. Sorry, but it is...
Tom.