Elder daughter is home, full of stories: of attending a performance of La Traviata in Liepzig without actually knowing the plot; of attending a performance of The Magic Flute in Prague where several lines of singing were translated in the English surtitles as "Yes."; of cute Italian and British guys (how worried should we be?); of the prettiest girl in the group, all of sixteen-years-old, being hit on by the sixty-year-old tour director (seriously, how worried should we be?); of British Airways pilots fumbling their way through the safety demo because of the shortage of crew due to the strike...
So to buy myself time, I'm posting a YouTube video. Except I can't embed this particular one, so here's a picture of Olivia Ruiz:
The song I wanted to post is here. I first heard the song on CBC Radio a few weeks ago, googled it and this delightfully dippy video came up. Only the French could get away with this. Please watch it. See you tomorrow...
Red Cross Volunteers of WWI Now on Ancestry
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Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD’s) were formed in 1909 by the British Red
Cross and the Order of St John at the request of the War Office. Both men
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