Friday, May 25, 2007
By now, I have given up expecting any reply from the PM
or from the Foreign Office. It is a pity to see, that even after fifty years, the British are not prepared to turn over a painful page of their history. Here in Flanders, the landscape is full of graves from the Great War: British, American, Canadian, but also... German. We were opponants in war,...
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Monday, May 14, 2007
The saga continues - reply of the PM to my last letter
Dear Mr Lenaerts I am writing on behalf of the Prime Minister to acknowledge your recent letter. As the matter you raise is the responsibility of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Mr Blair has asked that your letter be forwarded to that Department so that they may reply to you direct on his...
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Thursday, May 3, 2007
Attempts to put something right - a ghost of the past
Brugge, 29th March 2007. Mr Tony Blair Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London Great Britain Dear Sir, It has been some time ago now that I last wrote to you. You have been a great support to me when my wife died of cancer in 1998. I write to you now on an entirely different matter. In July of this...
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007
40 To everything there is a beginning, but sometimes the first signs are unsearchable. Bruno's love for Africa dated back to his childhood in Congo and probably his preference for African women, could be traced back to this period too. Later when he returned to the black continent after Mieke's...
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39 What if God was one of us...? well-known song... but the discord is indispensable to obtain harmony. Italo Svevo Confessions of Zeno Black bears: a mother and her two little cubs were walking at the edge of the forest. Suddenly, the mother stood still like a statue, because in the far distance...
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Monday, April 30, 2007
V 38 In Leuven at the Vital Decosterstreet, a nest of the "bombus"-family had settled down between the bathroom-ceiling and the roof. These bumble-bees were very busy and one could hear their buzz when in the bathroom. If it had been wasps, Bruno wouldn't have hesitated: one call to the fire-brigade...
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Sunday, April 29, 2007
37 The very hot and dusty Mombasa fortunatley was situated at the Indian Ocean, which provided for a cooling breeze. Bruno would find however, that this sometimes fierce wind, had also its disadvantages. In spite of his light clothes, he had to perspire a lot in Mombasa. Maybe this was partly too...
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36 At the foot of Mount Kenya again, Florence's father proudly showed Bruno his lands. The olive-trees were doing fine, but as a whole the crops were badly in need of water. Drought was the main enemy of the farmers in this part of the world. A younger uncle of Florence came to visit, and the three...
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Saturday, April 28, 2007
35 With a granddaughter of Shirlmith, Bruno strolled along the streets of colourful Mombasa. He had met Florence on the internet and she was the reason for his second journey to Kenya. From her father and her grandmother, cucu in Kikuyu, he had learnt the eventful history of her family: how it was...
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Thursday, April 26, 2007
34 Bruno had started very early in the morning to be able to see the snowy top of Mount Kenya. He walked through the fields, surrounding the house of grandmother Shirlmith, towards a meadow nearby a small Presbyterian church. Behind the church, the mighty mountain loomed and he was lucky: the...
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