Blog Day 19: Saturday 11 April 2020

Another successful trivia night last night courtesy of zoom.  Many very excellent and challenging questions drafted by yours truly and played in a competitive and fair manner by most of the contestants.  Further drinks and lively chat continued after the trivia, it was almost like being there.

It is nearly 1.00pm Saturday and very windy outdoors, and now raining, will need to see if I can get my walk in today or not.

Woke up to a pleasant surprise this morning, no not the easter bunny, but a visit from the soup fairy!  There on my doorstep was a supply of freshly made, home made, pea and ham soup.  Thanks Donna.

I am currently reading a couple of interesting books.  The first is an ebook, "The Nuremberg Raid 30-31 March 1944" by the British historian Martin Middlebrook.  The book covers the night time raid by approximately 800 bombers of the RAF Bomber Command on the German city of Nuremberg.  As part of Bomber Command there were a number of RAAF squadrons that took part in this raid as well as many Australians flying as pilots and crew in RAF aircraft.  The Bomber Command casualties were horrendous as aircraft fell prey to Luftwaffe night fighters, German flak (anti aircraft fire from the ground) collisions and accidents of various types.  The aircraft of Bomber Command were a very powerful force but it was a blunt and clumsy weapon as very few aircraft managed to accurately bomb their target.  Many aircraft bombed the wrong part of the city of Nuremberg, many missed it entirely and a large number of aircraft actually bombed the wrong city.  This is not a criticism of the bomber crews as they were incredibly brave but the equipment that they were using, especially the navigation and target marking equipment, wasn't up to the task. Anyway an interesting read and well written.

The second book is "The Long Shadow, The Great War and the Twentieth Century" by another British historian by the name of David Reynolds.  I am reading this in the traditional paperback version.  As I have only just started it I will let one of the critics describe it "Stunningly broad in its historical perspective, The Long Shadow is a magisterial reinterpretation of the place of The Great War in modern history". You all might need to form a line to borrow it when I have finished it.

I have just discovered one of the disadvantages of eating corn chips while playing trivia on line, corn chip crumbs in my keyboard!


Current Virus Stats Day 96

Vic: 1,265 infected (+24 from previous day) - 14 deaths (increase of 1)
Aus: 6,272 infected (+91 from previous day) - 56 deaths (increase of 3) Recovered 1,793
World: 1,698,271



Comments

  1. Lee_O11 April 2020 at 19:29

    Hows the French going?

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    1. Graeme12 April 2020 at 11:04

      Le Francais aint going tres bonne. Lack of le interest, as they say in France.

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