blogging by email

Again I am reduced to blogging by email - which rather loses the point of a web-log - see Getting to know AOL  in the side bar  for the whys and wherefores. This note is being written in Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00 and is formatted as rich text (html) as an experiment.

 

The only genealogy I have been doing today today was been hanging out in Mike Jon's Monmouthshire  group and looking for some HIGHLEY in Tintern - on the river Wye by the beautiful ruins of the abbey which is one of my favourite places in the world,

and is a god  illustration of the magic of a name

 

I have been reading a free newspaper metroXpress and about the public health issues in Kjellerup and the illnesses refugees from Somalia have when the come to that little town in Denmark.

 

Diabetes, cirrosis of the liver, cysts, problems with scars from bullet wounds, worms, parasites, tuberculosis (which our  ancestors called consumption), heart problems, and dietery defficiences.

The Somalian children had not been vaccinated, and mental problems included stress and schizophrenia.  all of which our ancestors suffered from.

 

I remeber as little as fifty years ago raw milk was risky to drink because of TB and brucellosis   A cyst in a roatesd slice of beef was out to me as anthrax in an english utility restaurant in about 1944. My mother politely left it on the rim of her plate.