or should I say ` we are still here in `sunny` Bournemouth`! Still checking in everyday to see what`s new, but nothing of great interest to contribute, so I`m currently in `read only` mode.

One quite interesting and, as per usual for me, completely non-footie item, involves a box full of very old knitted lace which I bought on e bay the other day. Some of it is still on the tiny steel needles. It is beautiful and painststaking work. However, there was an amount of cotton wound onto a makeshift bobbin of newspaper, and Mum and I couldn`t resist carefully unwinding and re-winding it.

The paper, The Sunday Graphic, had a date on it - 4th April 1948 (though this doesn`t date the lacework, which I believe is much earlier.) Anyway, the following article was right at the top:

`CEASE FIRE` APPEAL IN PALESTINE

Sir Alan Cunningham, Palestine`s High Commissioner, last night broadcast a `cease fire` appeal to both Jews and Arabs.

He announced that the Palestine Government is ready to discuss, at once, details with the civil and military leaders on both sides.

In warning "to those who might wish to continue violence, in face of the U.N. demand that such acts should cease", he said: "Such people should think well of the damage which such action may do to their case in the deliberations. This Government is remaining with you only a short time longer. During that period I am anxious to do all in my power to negotiate and maintain the `cease fire` agreement for which I am asking".

Fighting has raged all day near Jerusalem, where 400 Arabs counter-attacked Castel Village which Haganah had stormed and taken during the night. This is the village from which Arabs had been blockading Jerusalem`s food supplies.

Hmmmmm......I guess the `deliberations` continue.(:o|

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

Answers

APpropriate?

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

Sounds interesting! Never heard of the Sunday Graphic. UK paper?

Screach should know!

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

Used to eat my chips off it. (B@st@rd.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

I don't suppose you're actually logged on to post the TP positions, are you kind sir??

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

Before my time too! (just!)(:o)

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

Liar!!

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

Bit harsh there Screacher! (;o) You have to remember that I was suffering from motorway-lag when I met you in the Strawberry.....usually I look ten years younger!

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

Yeah - I know what you mean. I'd been at work for 48 hrs. Normally I look my age, but that was a good day!

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

What worries me is that, not only do I look my age....I`m begining to feel it! Always feel worse when the nights start drawing in too - I hate it when it gets dark early. Oh well, time to climb the little wooden hill....night night!(:o)

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

Oh howay pet. Surely you've seen enough Autumns to realise that spring is only round the corner. Mind, I have to admit that you can get dizzy going round so many corners. You don't mean that................do you??

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

My Dad did his National Service in the Palestine police in 1947-8. Got the last bus out of Tow Law in February 47 for 3 weeks to get the boat - from Sunderland I think but not everythings perfect.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

Same for me Josh. My Dad was actually in Palestine before the war, he joined the Army in 1936. He was an the 7th Armoured Div of the Eighth Army. After the war ended he returned in the Palestine Police.

-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001

Has there ever been a period since when Israel and Palestine have managed to co-habit peacefully?

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2001