Magic Warwickshire

Warwickshire is a little county situated in the middle of England. It’s a very important because of its history and because is the place where some celebrities brought up. For instance: Shakespeare and Mary Ann Evans.

Warwickshire’s landscape is very colorful, full of different shades of green.

On one hand, Warwickshire presents a pleasant rolling hills and unspoiled valleys. Its land is very fertile and is pretty well-known because of its wheat, beans, barley and turnip growings. And also, a lot of areas are adapted for pasture grazing of cows and sheeps. There, we can find three major rivers as the Avon, the Leam, and the Tame which give the region a mild and healthy climate.

On the other hand, Warwickshire, during the Industrial Revolution, developed an important industrial area, skilled on textil production, whom pollution contrasts with the purity of its nature. This part of the region is more lively than the first one. However, it’s not densely populated and it keeps the peaceful atmosphere. There, you breathe a pure and clean air, you can hear the nature, the sounds of little insects and the birts’ whistiling.

The best thing you can do there is to have a rest by disconnecting of the stressing world. It’s an attractive place to relax, and to take life much more easy. The heart of art and literature. An uncanny place, full of magic and mistery.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

My grandma's life: a difficult war

Josefa Rosales was born on 26^th May 1916 in Cordoba. The childbirth’s conditions were very poor at this time, so it was very difficult for her to survive. Her struggle with life started at the age of five when she miraculously recovered from tuberculosis. This fact was the beginning of her battle.

Josefa was nice and very cheerful. She had blue eyes and a beautiful smile. She had ten brothers and was the only daughter. Her family was so poor that she had to begin to work when she was three. She helped her parents and brothers to harvest in a farmhouse where she met Francisco Pérez, a farmer who was going to be the love of his life. They got married in 1934 and two years later, when she was twenty, the Spanish civil war broke out. The Republican people fought the Fascists, or in other words: the poor people were fighting the rich people.

In farmhouses the farmworkers rebelled againts their lords, this way her and her family had to run away. Francisco Pérez, her husband, went to the battlefront with some fighters to defend the Republic and Josefa Rosales decided to join them. She didn’t want to leave her husband alone because she couldn’t live without him, so she decided to risk her own life in order to not to separate from her love.

They travelled throughout Spain and they were fighting in different battles for three years: in Madrid, in Cantabria and, finally, in the Ebro’s battle where Republicans were defeated and she and her husband were captured and jailed. The next month she was forced to see Francisco’s public execution. Then, she lost the brightness of her eyes and her lovely smile.

Despite her love was cruelly executed, she never surrendered. She continued fighting and resisting the Fascist army alone. But two weeks later she realised that she was expecting a baby. She had to give birth in prison and she managed to grow her daughter up there until she was freed a in 1940.

She died in 1962 because of a high fever. Although she suffered a lot in life, she never gave it up and she always fought to feed her little daugter. So, she must be reminded as a strong and brave woman and also because of her continue struggle in life.

How to hit your wife...

Yestersay while I was having dinner, I listened on the news: "A Saudi cleric explains on a Tv programme how to hit your wife respecting Allah code" I couldn't believe what I heard but unfortunately, it was true. Oh my god! How embarrassing! In the Western countries, during the last three centuries women have been fighting against the patriacal society to get their rights. As "this thing with legs, arms and mouth" explains so well on the video (because "he" cannot be considered as a person) they were considered as irrational "persons" who always act using their emotions and because of that they must be under the control of a man: her father, her brother, her husband and even her son. Still today the struggle continues but the situation is not as bad as it used to be. However, Muslim women are in an awful situation. The Feminist movement of the XX century influeced them to start their struggle but their organisations are very weak. On the oder hand, they are under a very strong religious power which they cannot fight because the mind of the society is totally influeced by their beliefs and their ideology, so this way they can't improve the women's situation because people, even women, get used to their social roles. To improve their way of life the Western countries must help them but our governments (run by men) are so coward that they don't do anything. They are afraid of a Muslim terrorist, outrageous attack but what frightens them the most is that these countries stopped to trade in petrol and other kind of products to them. If the government doesn't do anything we must help these women because they need us. They have to make their movement stronger and face the law and the society rules which subordinate them.

Women, you have to fly!

Hope you "enjoy" this video.

XOXO

A flying woman...

PS: SORRY BUT THE VIDEO HAS NO SOUND

There Was An Old Lady...

Nursery Rhyme

There was an Old Lady song

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and wiggled and tiggled inside her;
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd to swallow a bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a cat;
Fancy that to swallow a cat!
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady that swallowed a dog;
What a hog, to swallow a dog;
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a cow,
I don't know how she swallowed a cow;
She swallowed the cow to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!
There was an old lady who swallowed a horse...
She's dead, of course!

I've done my homework!

Hope you enjoy it.

Here you have the video. Take a look and have fun!

FLY

STRESSED !

This is me!
I am very busy at this moment, so I will write as soon as possible!
I am very sorry.

Have fun classmates!
(and Núria)

A little busy stressed bird.