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Manchester City - United Kingdom

Manchester City thriving and cosmopolitan city! This is my home.





The CIS building in the background was Manchesters first skyscraper.




The above is the Lowry. It is houses a theatre, and art gallery.

JS Lowry

Far right His matchstick men painting.

The Bridgewater Hall a beautiful and modern concert hall.

The Ferris wheel that comes to the city once a year.



The Old Wellington Inn.

CLICK ON THE ABOVE PHOTO FOR THE HISTORY
OF THE INN.



On Saturday 15 June 1996, at a peak shopping time on Father's Day, a 3,000lb IRA bomb exploded in Manchester, injuring more than 200 people and ripping into the fabric of the city's main shopping centre. In a state of shocked disbelief, police had begun clearing people from the area some 40 minutes before the blast; fortunately, several telephoned warnings had been issued to newspapers, radio stations and to at least one hospital in Manchester an hour before the blast. Newspaper offices in Dublin and Belfast received similar warnings.
An army bomb squad employed a robotic anti-bomb device to check an illegally parked Ford van, which had been recorded by several closed circuit security cameras in the city, when the bomb exploded.
Manchester ambulance services counted 206 injured people. Most injuries were sustained from falling glass and building debris. In the immediately ensuing chaos, ambulances and private cars were used to shuttle victims to local and regional hospitals.
Local authorities had to close Victoria and Piccadilly railway stations for several hours and to seal off the city centre. The evacuation of shoppers immediately took place from the Marks & Spencer's department store, which was directly at the centre of the site, outside which the lorry-bomb was parked.
Initially, the evacuated staff and shoppers stood outside, right next to the bomb, but when the emergency services realised this they shunted them to the nearby Victoria Station. Why Manchester city centre was targeted by the IRA is uncertain, but it later became clear that the cause probably lay in the breakdown of the IRA "ceasefire" in the light of lack of progress with the British Government's ongoing talks about a permanent peace settlement in Northern Ireland.
It was estimated that up to 50,000 square metres of retail space and nearly 25,000 square metres of office space have subsequently needed to be reconstructed. Whilst much of the city centre has now reopened, the immediate area surrounding the blast site, including parts of the Arndale Centre, the Corn Exchange, the Royal Exchange, Royal Insurance's Longridge House and Marks and Spencer's remain cordoned off and a considerable amount of demolition has had to take place. Marks & Spencer's store, alas, was totally demolished, and the Royal Insurance Building is no more, as are several shops in the immediate vicinity.


This is my avenue where I live, just in the suburbs not to far from the city centre.
















Manchester city is very lively in the evenings lots of things going on. From heavy rock concerts to Classical.



Night life ... lots of clubs, modern and contemporary wine bars.

The young lady on

the right is my daughter.

:o)



We have a fantastic mueseum, art gallery and stadiums.

We were very lucky to be able to host the Common Wealth Games here.

We have a famous Football Team ... Manchester United ... to which the Glazier Family bought not too long ago. Manchester United had and has many brilliant players to name a few.

George Best ... Nobby Stiles ... Ryan Gigs ... David Beckham. David Beckham has now been bought by the Americans. :o(

Manchester is famous for its Curry Mile. Delights of Indian Food on a mile run, restaurant after restaurant with an array of neon lights.

This is our China Town.





Anyone else like to share their photographs of their home towns.

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Search

Search beneath the blanaket of snow

Where the wind does blow in the bleakness of the Highland snow
His spirit walks through the rolling of the heathers that nestle and grow
Her heart a shadowing glow beneath the face of the eloquent moon
to unite her with her true Love, this moment is not a moment too soon
She will follow His spirit wherever he may roam and go
Like the satin ebb of an ocean of love flowing to and fro
Let the surge of the tide bring her true love to her lonely side
Searching for Him here and there, no longer can He hide
How she longs to see
How she longs to be
Endlessly her heart is callling to to move beneath His bough
To be intoxicated by His Love in the realms of the here and now

Something for all of you to see.

http://sharecompassion.blogspot.com/

The most amazing 12 year old.

Click on the blog above.

Matt has a great blog and he was sent this to view.

Everyone will be amazed by this young girl.

and by the great work that Matt does in bringing solutions and thoughts to worldwide issues.

Well done Matt for caring.

Starry, starry night

Each night,

the Moon kisses

secretly

the lover

who counts

the stars

by Rumi

When we gaze up into the dark velet sky and become aware that all of those sparkling stars are alive. Wow! Life ... out there the Universe and into infinity is Life.

Images of excited lights reflecting the dance of love. Are we too, not like these stars shining lights, reflections of beauty. We are all one ... part of the whole. We are not inseparable from the infinite.

Quotes:

God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine”
David Nicholas

“Though my soul may set in darkness, It will rise in perfect light, I have loved the stars too fondly To be fearful of the night”
Sarah Williams quotes

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”
Vincent van Gogh quotes

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta quotes

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
Pamela Vaull Starr quotes

Dedicated to LOVE

Heart and Soul

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The mirror of

the heart must be

polished constantly

Befor you can see

clearly in it.

*****

It is certain

that an atom

of goodness

on the path

of faith is

never lost

by rumi

Quotes:

"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain."
~ Kahlil Gibran

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life, is when men are afraid of the Light."-Plato

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. - Kahlil Gibran

Louis NizerA man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

The art of Love.

Just recently I have been pondering on LOVE. I have been tought that to love is an art.

The art of Love.

What can this really mean?

For many of us go through life expressing a Love concept which is totally based on fear.

When I say I love you ... What is it I really love ... I can gaze into your eyes and I can see myself.
My reflection gazing back at me and in turn you see yourself in mine.

When I say I love you ... What do I mean ... I love your spirit that expresses the Divine and evokes the Divine within me.

When I say I love you ... there is that feeling that we can infuse each other with the spirit of magic.

When I say I love you ... I know that you can hold me so gently as if you were holding a butterfly and allow me that freedom to fly ... and know that I will return into your arms just as quick.

When I say I love you ... that I too can do this for you for the moment one cannot do this we fear, and with fear comes the illusions that will veil over your love.

When I say I love you ... What is it I really seek ... nothing ... for seeking happiness from the other is not love. One can only find happiness from within.

When you love nurture it like a gardener ... let the other unfold ... share ... give space ... be there for the other to give a helping hand ... forgive ... laugh ... and cry together.

A pondering just of late.

Dedicated to Master S.

That is why I guess many lovers they fall in love and then fall out of love ... because the other cannot keep up trying to make one happy. Problems arise, we hold on too tight ...

When I say I love you ... there are no expectations for within expectations we can fall into resentments if we do not receive what we expected.

Please feel free to leave a comment.

The Canvas

I awoke to a beautiful morning full of blush
It was the dawning of a crimson dance
It was as if God the artisan had taken His brush
Streaking the sky with colour across the expanse

How beautifully the birds sang as they nestled in the trees
The branches dark skeleton silhouettes reaching high
A superb vision of His expression for the eyes to please
The book of life unfolded in the yawning of the sky.

A canvas on a new page for you to paint, to tint and shade
Make forgiveness your prime colour when making corrections
Move within your coloured dreams, do not ever be afraid
Choose to apply love and happiness from within in all directions

God is Wonder that we cannot comprehend His way
Be happy to be in His school of artists
Learn to create a colourful canvas for yourself each day.

If you paint the canvas of life or sew the tapestry of life choose yourself colours of vibrancy!

Quotes

It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative. David Allen

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process. Lindsey Buckingham

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. Danny Kaye

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire

Intuition

Follow your intuition always. Intuition is your inner teaching ... it is the voice that speaks from within.

Follow your dreams and make them your reality. Live your truth always.

Thank you everyone for popping in and out. Felt the need to take some time out.

hug for everyone.

I have many examples when one has used intuition ... and many when one has not.

Can anyone remember an incident when they followed their intuition or did not?

Quotes:

The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born

I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.”
Kim Basinger quotes

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.”
Alan Alda quotes

Often you have to rely on intuition.” Bill Gates

Dedicated ... always to Master S

Hi everyone!

Thanks everyone for paying a visit. Good to see you all.
Back posting this week.
Hugs for everyone!

Listen to Olivia

PLEASE LISTEN TO MY VIOLIN TUTOR PLAYING ... OLIVIA click here

MY FAVOURITES IS 'BURNING BUSH AND THE OTHER ONE IS:- 'A STOR MO CROI'

I THINK THAT ROB AND ANDREW WILL APPRECIATE THESE AND ALL OF YOU I GUESS TOO.
I once asked my previous tutor how long will it take for me to play like that? Try 30 years.
She laughs out loud. Looks like I have another 25 years to go. :o(
And does she play well? Do pigs fly?

Hope you enjoy it.

Quotes:


“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.”
Napoleon Bonaparte quotes


Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring”
S. J. Perelman quotes

“I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.”
Tommy Cooper quotes

This one is superb!

“Every person is important. It doesn't matter whether you play the violin, the flute, the cello, or the drums, you're still part of the orchestra.”

The orchestra of Life

When the master takes me in his hands and rests me on his shoulder
He tenderly caresses me and holds me with loving care
The bow touches my strings and we resonate
The sounds echo through the wood crafted from some ancient tree
Music to his ear
This is a Love affair between the master and his violin.

Dedicated to A

Time out

A few days out folks ... take care everyone.
see you all soon. Will try to visit your blogs.

What is reality?

Reality is an immeasurable term . .. Because reality

is all about how an individual perceives

or interprets something.

If you go down in the woods today ...

Click on my photograph or on the word Fairies
other Fairies and Legends and spiritual poems


Have you ever wondered where Fairies hide themselves ... I spotted their hiding place and snapped them with my camera. :o)

Sometimes we miss the beauty of the moment ... we are involved in our thoughts ... work ... life issues, that we miss these tiny glimpses, gifts. A wonderful expression is to see a baby smile and hear it gurgle. A moment listening to a choir singing ... a beautiful piece of music ... to gaze upon a painting. Do you recall that moment when it just gets to you ... somewhere within you opens and you feel. Have you ever reached out for the kleenexes to wipe a tear away during a film which has moved you.


One that I can recall the most was whilst touring Rome ... I was visiting the Cardinals Cathedral ... and it was so lucky for me, that this particualar moment they were all singing in Latin ... the sun streamed through the stained glass windows ... there seemed to be a haze ... gosh! that feeling just opened me up and tears just rolled down my cheeks.

What do think it is that makes you feel this way?
Is it not you opening up to your very Being? :o)





What moments do you recall? I would love you all to
share them here. :o)


Be In with the Authentic... "IN" Crowd

Innovative _ Inspire _ Inhale _ Intuition _ Infuse _ Insight _ Instinct _ Ingenious_ Inspirit_ Intelligence
Credit for the "In" Crowd goes to M Levy.
From Margie

had to post these. :o)
Hi Trinity
I do love all the pretty fairy pictures!It must have been a glorious moment in that cathedral in Rome!So many beautiful moments in each dayThey pass so quickly away!I was out for a walk last evening and came across the most beautiful sight!Four deer were staring at me from a close distance!I stopped, and made not a sound, as they contiued to just gaze my way!They were in a field of snow!It made me feel so peaceful!


Ann says
a lovely post to wake up to... there are so many of those magical moments... it really doesn't take much to make me misty and moist eyed. A friend called me a sap last night, I am so easily moved by the moon and the stars, a beautiful flower, babies, oh babies really do it for me.

Keshi says
Im easily moved :) Im a very sensitive soul so alot of things can make me teary. Simple things make me happy. It doesnt take alot to get me excited. I even get tears when I see a baby butterfly practising it's skills...I smile at the sun rays...I cry at the movies...I dance down the road...I long for a walk in the woods...Music can put me in the best mood...I feel love of this Earth all the time...nature bascially makes me thrilled.

Walk in the graveyard

Life and death

Past and present

Darkness and light

Time to myself took me off into the local graveyard with my camera. It made me very aware that through darkness ... through death ... emerged Life and Light.

Mystical Photographer

I came across a wonderful Mystical Photographer. Mystical Mike via Flickr.
Click on the photograph to see more.

Mystic Quotes:

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. Author: Milan Kundera

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them. Author: Booth Tarkington

All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country. Author: Louis
Claude de St. Martin

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. Author: Soren Kierkegaard

Mystics and Mysticism
Quotes: The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. - Basil Bunting

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. - Aldous Huxley

We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious. - Ryszard Kapuscinski

Fisherman

Let God be the Fisherman that catches you in His net
That reels and pulls you in
Let He be the One that kisses you
Whispering, go and be free
Go swim in the oceans of My Love
Do not be the one that struggles for breath
Surrender to your ego's death
Rejoice that you have been caught
For when He casts His Rod upon your very soul
And you have wiped away your veil of illusions
Released yourself of all confusions
You will remember that you are One


Quotes:

Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed. ~Robert H. Schuller

Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. ~St. Augustine

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. ~Teresa of Avila

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. ~Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: An Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, 1937

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him. ~Pearl Bailey

The Wizards Dance in Life

Wizard you sailed upon the tempest of love
On the tail of the thunderous voice of the wind
You entered my heart … my very soul
Like the gentle falling of pure snow
From nothing
You waved your wand and a rose appeared
Wizard of Love, joy and peace
My soul you came to light up and release
Turning my fears into joy and treasure
Guiding me through my frustrations
Transforming them into fulfilment and pleasure
Wizard you are the Alchemist that is within us all
The Transformer
Turning our qualities into pure Love and gold

Dedicated to Master S.

quotes:
From the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

1 You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
2 I learned the most important lesson of my life: that the extraordinary is not the birthright of a chosen and privileged few, but of all people, even the humblest. That is my one certainty: we are all the manifestation of the divinity of God.


“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.”
Helen Keller quotes
5 There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS ALL ROUND THE WORLD

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

LIVE YOUR DREAMS

FORGIVE

LOVE

AND

BRING JOY AND PEACE INTO THE WORLD.

HUGS AND KISSES TO ALL OF YOU

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR VALID COMMENTS

MUCH APPRECIATED

THANK YOU ALSO FOR SHARING YOUR WONDERFUL BLOGS AND EXQUISITE POEMS & HAIKU'S

Last day of 2006

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”

by Edith Lovejoy Pierce

During the days that have followed up to this the final one of the year ... I am sure we have all reflected on the past year. As the quote says ... we have blank pages to be filled.

We all have a different story to tell.

May you all fill your pages with love and peace.

Love and hugs Trinity :o)

More quotes:

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author UnknownA New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey