Tough women section
Jul. 10th, 2005 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizwilliamsThis is about British journalist Hannah Pool's attempts to trace her birth family in Eritrea.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1524461,00.html#article_continue
It made me smile. She finds her dad after umpteen years of separation - one of his daughters died on the frontline, his wife died in childbirth and the baby (Hannah) was adopted, and then the baby shows up again as a grown woman. And after the initial emotional reaction, he's complaining about the length of her skirt, and her hair - she's been proud of her Afro all these years as a sign of African solidarity and the old boy wants to know why she looks 'like a bandit'. Families, eh?
This: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1525283,00.html
- is about the recent honouring of British women in WWII, including the woman (now 92) who inspired 'Charlotte Grey':
'The Gestapo put Wake top of its most wanted list with a price of five million marks on her head, code-naming her the 'White Mouse' because she was so difficult to catch. She escaped her pursuers on skis, across a hidden bridge, driving a car chased by an aeroplane and once by jumping from a moving train.'
Wake was pictured in the paper this morning. With immaculate nails. James Bond, eat your heart out.
Also let's hear it for Helen Long, who is a station assistant for London Underground and spent 2 hours on Thursday with a bloke whose leg had been blown off in one of the tube blasts. He was apparently joking that it was just as well London had won the Olympic bid, because now he could compete in the paraplegic section.
Long's managers told her she could have some time off to recover and was offered counselling but she reported for duty on Friday at 7am as usual.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1524461,00.html#article_continue
It made me smile. She finds her dad after umpteen years of separation - one of his daughters died on the frontline, his wife died in childbirth and the baby (Hannah) was adopted, and then the baby shows up again as a grown woman. And after the initial emotional reaction, he's complaining about the length of her skirt, and her hair - she's been proud of her Afro all these years as a sign of African solidarity and the old boy wants to know why she looks 'like a bandit'. Families, eh?
This: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1525283,00.html
- is about the recent honouring of British women in WWII, including the woman (now 92) who inspired 'Charlotte Grey':
'The Gestapo put Wake top of its most wanted list with a price of five million marks on her head, code-naming her the 'White Mouse' because she was so difficult to catch. She escaped her pursuers on skis, across a hidden bridge, driving a car chased by an aeroplane and once by jumping from a moving train.'
Wake was pictured in the paper this morning. With immaculate nails. James Bond, eat your heart out.
Also let's hear it for Helen Long, who is a station assistant for London Underground and spent 2 hours on Thursday with a bloke whose leg had been blown off in one of the tube blasts. He was apparently joking that it was just as well London had won the Olympic bid, because now he could compete in the paraplegic section.
Long's managers told her she could have some time off to recover and was offered counselling but she reported for duty on Friday at 7am as usual.
