West Swiss train collision kills driver and injures 35

  The collision between two regional trains  Lausanne bound and the other travelling north from the same city, happened in Granges-pres-Marnand in Vaud canton, about 50km (30 miles) south-west of the capital, Bern Switzerland in the early evening. According to Swiss police, the driver of one of the trains died in the incident and his…

Year of the Sheep : Happy Chinese New Year

  Chinese all over the world are celebrating the Chinese New Year, Year of the Sheep with dramatic firework  display in Beijing. In China, 3bn passenger trips will be made by car, Train and plane over the 40day period, by people are travelling home in what is considered the world’s biggest annual human migration. It is…

FRAUDULENT MARRIAGES IN UK ON THE RISE

Victims of fraudsters who con the English into fake marriages are complaining that Theresa May does not do enough to bring them to heel for what they have done. Despite over 1,000 cases being reported  in the past year not one person has been brought to book. Over 20 cases are being reported per week…

Chinnar Wild life Sanctury

  Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary / Music: Kudamaloor Janardanan – Keli, the Symphony of Love / Thanks to Syami Kumar and his family, bluebirdtravel, The Blue Yonder and Wild Kerala Tour Company

THRIFTY MAID GETS A LAY – OR TWO – REVIEW OF FIFTY SHADES OF GREY

The new bestselling film of the first book of  the trilogy “Fifty Shades of Grey” stars the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele,  and she is partnered by the respectfully hunky Jamie Dornan playing  Christian Grey.  Jamie is actually an Irish born actor who is married with one child,…

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY – MAKE LOVE NOT WAR!

How will you spend yours? Valentines Day is not always happy for some people – take this couple on the left in the paintings entitled “Anatomy of a Relationship”. They’ve both seen better days together – sometime in the distant hazy past.  But for the happy couples who are in love, falling in love, entwined…

Intercity train derails kills 12 and 100 injured in southern India

Ernakulam bound Intercity train from Bengaluru in Southern India, derailed and killed 12 passengers died and over 100 injured. Nine coaches of (Train no. 12677) jumped rails at  Belagondapalli near Anekal town on the city’s outskirts around 7.35 a.m, after a boulder might have fallen on the track. The train departed from Bengaluru’s main city…