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Plus I started a big garden project and like to travel.vreemdelingenrecht.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853851066837403895noreply@blogger.comBlogger377125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629719244920393230.post-77865527767351666582024-02-17T16:13:00.000+01:002024-02-17T16:13:58.867+01:00
Some of Colin's novels are leaving a lasting impression, some have a bit two dimensional characters. This one is one of the very good. People motivated by loge, enduring terrible odds, having to travel half the globe before Marco Polo did that. Only thing I would loved to have seen is how or if the tribune would have been able to reclaim his social position.
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Rogers, a man with a history, experienced in running his tramp steamer through U-boat-infested
waters to transport vital supplies and contraband to the highest
bidder, takes on his most dangerous cargo yet when he docks in Amsterdam.</span><p></p><p><span>As I am Dutch the description of our capital in those early years of the war is interesting as it is only after like a year the real feeling of being under the Nazi boot became clear. It also feels like the writer spent time to do his research as unlike in other books I do not see Dutch anomalies. Another thing what must have been weird in those days was meeting German officers who had studied in the States and now were more and more becoming "the enemy".</span></p><p><span>The novel is a fast reading well written adventurestory.I can certainly recommend it.</span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span>4 stars out of 5 </span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span> <iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-popups allow-scripts allow-modals allow-forms allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=tulip68-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=B0BHLDBP5X&asins=B0BHLDBP5X&linkId=2f3643112a6243f37f714be60d3932a6&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe>
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</div>vreemdelingenrecht.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16853851066837403895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629719244920393230.post-63704403958593820782022-06-03T21:29:00.003+02:002022-06-03T23:07:34.667+02:00A series of detective stories set in New Zealand in the 1870ties after the land wars by Wendy M. Wilson<p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjUB6IjCJtUjTkesqsSDQm3MPX7FNgq0B95KoHEV573ufS7x5OCmjriBlSSFVnr7Qmst6JI5x63IpZ7vjPyrk5armSbhNyBUg_Frv-JdgnjVNg6sPSVnSKwai2vMIhknSqnX580p22Ms0Fo7lErSsU7mb4zwUec_YR5LmIxUrOO4gwmTy6R17xNu5K/s345/81wDVDEmzoL._CLa%202585,2250%2071zhVeUdu8L.jpg,71n8+V3QHML.jpg%200,0,1175,2250+1410,0,1175,2250+587,0,1410,2250_._SY300_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="345" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjUB6IjCJtUjTkesqsSDQm3MPX7FNgq0B95KoHEV573ufS7x5OCmjriBlSSFVnr7Qmst6JI5x63IpZ7vjPyrk5armSbhNyBUg_Frv-JdgnjVNg6sPSVnSKwai2vMIhknSqnX580p22Ms0Fo7lErSsU7mb4zwUec_YR5LmIxUrOO4gwmTy6R17xNu5K/s320/81wDVDEmzoL._CLa%202585,2250%2071zhVeUdu8L.jpg,71n8+V3QHML.jpg%200,0,1175,2250+1410,0,1175,2250+587,0,1410,2250_._SY300_.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><br />A few years after the Maori- settlers land wars a former sergeant is asked to find two boys lost in the woods of New Zealand. The background of Maori discrimination, Scandi and Chinese immigrant labourers, wild nature and the past of Frank Hardy form a very interesting book.</b><p></p><p> </p><p>Goodreads blurb: <span id="freeText1008983348063347962">THE TARANAKI WARS, NEW ZEALAND, 1869: AN ATROCITY<br />After
arriving too late to stop the beheading of a rebel Maori chief by
colonial troops looking for a bounty, and witnessing other events that
sicken him, Sergeant Frank Hardy leaves the military to look for a place
where he can carve out a life for himself. <br /><br />MANAWATU, NEW ZEALAND, 1877: SERGEANT HARDY INVESTIGATES<br />Eight
years after the war has ended, Hardy works as a mail coach driver and
part-time private investigator, but can’t forget the horrors he
witnessed during the Land Wars. When he is attacked by a vengeful Maori
warrior while searching for the bodies of two missing Scandinavian men,
he begins to wonder if his past has caught up with him. And to
complicate things, a Scandinavian road worker is out to get him and the
Armed Constabulary are looking at him suspiciously.<br /><br />Will his
growing love for a young Danish woman bring him peace, or will he suffer
the same fate as other men from his regiment, the 57th Regiment of
Foot, known as the Die Hards? And will he ever return the bodies of the
missing Scandi men to their grieving families?</span></p><p><i>The first two books of this series are very good but not all 7. </i><br /></p><p> </p>
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that arose when he volunteered for the Union army. When he comes back to
her in a box instead of on his feet, those feelings complicate even
more. <br /><br />Jessalyn’s mourning period is cut short when something
begins to attack the livestock in their small town, and greater dangers
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reverend, one of her own students, and a strange man somehow related to
her husband’s passing, Jessalyn must find a way to stop the evils that
threaten her husband’s first and ultimately last home. <br /><br />Set in
the Southwestern home front, Huszar blends a taste of fantasy into a
startling down-to-earth world, creating a high stakes adventure for this
strong female protagonist and her band of amateur sleuths.</span></i><p></p><p><b>Amongst the Native Americans there is the legend of the Thunderbird but if you are like me from the other side of the globe that kind of cultural references go completely unnoticed. (In my case it was filed in a back drawer of ,my brain after having read a novel dealing with that legend 20 years ago and after a freshening by our friend Google). Maybe the author can start with a prologue where an old shaman is telling that story centuries before the start of the novel.<br /><br />The novel itself starts off quite good but then gets a bit rushed leaving one with all kind of questions and in my case "rings a bell somehow". It would have worked better if it had been a bit longer and complicated.</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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Pub Date: 27 Jan 2022
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<strong><span aria-label="21 February 2022" content="2022-02-21" itemprop="datePublished"><span aria-hidden="true"></span></span>21 Feb 2022</strong></h6><h6 class="pb-1"><strong>3 stars out of 5 <br /></strong></h6><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEju1CuRz65xcHR1i8EUNZ375Ppz6xoUwTGpbOMoSgJYXiqEsU0Kj1E4AtwO_s2QrGoLSGWWs8WgCzdf3DjK9xbU8BEZUW_27fc3htyB3TwWyQNi-6ixAz-JXsBKEOdU0RcBMnI-RL4PlxO87ytjLASbKY-tpbz4KNrqwx8n7zioZV4uAj4IGc1gfcRu=s320" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEju1CuRz65xcHR1i8EUNZ375Ppz6xoUwTGpbOMoSgJYXiqEsU0Kj1E4AtwO_s2QrGoLSGWWs8WgCzdf3DjK9xbU8BEZUW_27fc3htyB3TwWyQNi-6ixAz-JXsBKEOdU0RcBMnI-RL4PlxO87ytjLASbKY-tpbz4KNrqwx8n7zioZV4uAj4IGc1gfcRu" width="240" /></a></div><br />
The info on Wikipedia about the village:<p></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1960, a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_bill" title="Private bill">private bill</a> sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_City_Council" title="Liverpool City Council">Liverpool City Council</a> was brought before <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament</a> to develop a water reservoir in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afon_Tryweryn" title="Afon Tryweryn">Tryweryn Valley</a>. The development would include the flooding of Capel Celyn. By obtaining authority via an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Parliament" title="Act of Parliament">Act of Parliament</a>,
Liverpool City Council would not require planning consent from the
relevant Welsh local authorities and would also avoid a planning inquiry
at Welsh level at which arguments against the proposal could be
expressed. This, together with the fact that the village was one of the
last Welsh-only speaking communities in the area,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup>
ensured that the proposals became deeply controversial. Thirty-five out of thirty-six Welsh <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" title="Member of Parliament">Members of Parliament</a>
(MPs) opposed the bill (the other did not vote), but in 1962 it was
passed. The members of the community waged an eight-year effort,
ultimately unsuccessful, to prevent the destruction of their homes.
</p><p>When the valley was flooded in 1965, the village and its
buildings, including the post office, the school, and a chapel with
cemetery, were all lost. Twelve houses and farms were submerged, and 48
people of the 67 who lived in the valley lost their homes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-thomas_3-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn#cite_note-thomas-3">[3]</a></sup> In all, some 800 acres (3.2 km<sup>2</sup>; 320 ha) of land were submerged. A new reservoir, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llyn_Celyn" title="Llyn Celyn">Llyn Celyn</a>, was formed.
</p><p>The water in the reservoir is used to maintain the flow of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Dee,_Wales" title="River Dee, Wales">River Dee</a> (Afon Dyfrdwy) so that water may be abstracted downstream,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> and additionally to improve the quality of white-water sports on Afon Tryweryn.
</p><p>A full list of the submerged properties (broadly from west to east) is as follows:
</p>
<table class="wikitable">
<tbody><tr>
<td>Moelfryn
</td>
<td>Gwerndelwau
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Glan Celyn + y Llythyrdy <i>(post office)</i>
</td>
<td>Y Capel <i>(chapel)</i>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Y Fynwent <i>(cemetery)</i>
</td>
<td>Tŷ Capel <i>(Chapel House)</i>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Tynybont
</td>
<td>Yr Ysgol <i>(school)</i>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Brynhyfryd
</td>
<td>Y Gelli
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Cae Fadog
</td>
<td>Penbryn Fawr
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Coed Mynach
</td>
<td>Dol Fawr
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Garnedd Lwyd
</td>
<td>Hafod Fadog <i>(Quaker meeting place)</i> and<br />Mynwent y Crynwyr <i>(Quakers' Cemetery)</i>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Y Tyrpeg <i>(The Turnpike)</i>
</td>
<td>Tyddyn Bychan
</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>Stones from the chapel (built in 1820 and rebuilt in 1892) and other
buildings in the village were used in the construction of Capel Celyn
Memorial Chapel, designed by the Welsh sculptor R. L. Gapper with the
Liverpool City architect Ronald Bradbury, which was completed in 1967
and overlooks the reservoir at the north-west end. It is a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_II*_listed_building" title="Grade II* listed building">Grade II* listed building</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup>
</p><p>Families who had relatives buried in the cemetery were given the
option of moving them to another cemetery. Eight bodies were disinterred
and the remainder left. All headstones were supposed to be removed, and
the cemetery was to be covered in layers of gravel, then concrete, but
this was not done.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-thomas_3-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn#cite_note-thomas-3">[3]</a></sup>
</p><p>When the reservoir dried due to a drought in the 1980s and early
1990s the village became visible. The whole of the walled cemetery next
to where the chapel stood was completely covered in concrete.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> There were no gravestones left standing. The removed headstones are in a memorial garden at the memorial chapel.
</p>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Hafod_Fadog">Hafod Fadog</span></h3><p>
One of the farmsteads covered was Hafod Fadog, a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker" title="Quaker">Quaker</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_meeting_house" title="Friends meeting house">meeting place</a>. It is recorded on a bronze plaque in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rest_area#Lay-bys" title="Rest area">lay-by</a> near to the dam:</p><blockquote><p>Under
these waters and near this stone stood Hafod Fadog, a farmstead where
in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Quakers met for worship. On
the hillside above the house was a space encircled by a low stone wall
where larger meetings were held, and beyond the house was a small <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cemetery" title="Cemetery">burial ground</a>. From this valley came many of the early Quakers who <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Tract" title="Welsh Tract">emigrated to Pennsylvania</a>, driven from their homes by persecution to seek <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion" title="Freedom of religion">freedom of worship</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World" title="New World">New World</a>.</p></blockquote>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_effects">Political effects</span></h2><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tryweryn_memorial_chapel_w.JPG"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="972" data-file-width="1296" height="165" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Tryweryn_memorial_chapel_w.JPG/220px-Tryweryn_memorial_chapel_w.JPG" width="220" /></a> </div><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><div class="thumbcaption">Memorial chapel for the village at Llyn Celyn</div></div></div>
<p>Almost unanimous Welsh political opposition had failed to stop approval of the scheme, a fact that seemed to underline <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaid_Cymru" title="Plaid Cymru">Plaid Cymru</a>'s argument that the Welsh national community was powerless.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> At the subsequent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1955 United Kingdom general election">general election</a> the party's support increased from 3.1% to 5.2%.
</p><p>Of perhaps greater significance, however, was the impetus the episode gave to Welsh devolution. The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Wales" title="Council of Wales">Council of Wales</a> recommended the creation of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Office" title="Welsh Office">Welsh Office</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Wales" title="Secretary of State for Wales">Secretary of State for Wales</a> early in 1957, a time when the governance of Wales on a national level was so demonstrably lacking in many people's eyes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-butt-phillip_8-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn#cite_note-butt-phillip-8">[8]</a></sup> By 1964 the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wilson" title="Harold Wilson">Wilson</a> government gave effect to these proposals.
</p><p>The flooding of Capel Celyn also sharpened debate within Plaid Cymru about the use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_action" title="Direct action">direct action</a>.
While the party emphasised its constitutional approach to stopping the
development, it also sympathised with the actions of two party members
who (of their own accord) attempted to sabotage the power supply at the
site of the Tryweryn dam in 1962.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-butt-phillip_8-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn#cite_note-butt-phillip-8">[8]</a></sup>
</p><p>A more militant response was the formation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudiad_Amddiffyn_Cymru" title="Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru">Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru</a>
("Wales Defence Movement") or MAC, which blew up a transformer on the
dam construction site in February 1963. MAC went on to carry out a
number of other bombings in the next six years.
</p><p>In October 1965 the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llyn_Celyn" title="Llyn Celyn">Llyn Celyn</a> reservoir opened, and there was a sizeable Plaid Cymru-organised demonstration. A year later, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynfor_Evans" title="Gwynfor Evans">Gwynfor Evans</a> won Plaid Cymru's first parliamentary seat in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmarthen_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Carmarthen (UK Parliament constituency)">Carmarthen</a>.
But according to some commentators, Capel Celyn did not play a major
part in Gwynfor Evans's victory: in addition to Carmarthen's long
distance from Tryweryn, they claim that Plaid Cymru's victory owed as
much to an anti-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a>
backlash in the constituency's mining communities as it did to Plaid's
successful depiction of Labour's policies as a threat to the viability
of small Welsh communities.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup>
</p><p>On 19 October 2005, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_City_Council" title="Liverpool City Council">Liverpool City Council</a> issued a formal apology for the flooding.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup> Some in the town of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bala,_Gwynedd" title="Bala, Gwynedd">Bala</a> welcomed the move, though others said the apology was a "useless political gesture" and came far too late.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup>
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What a great read. When a new judge travels to Wakefield in
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during the rule of gay king Edward II two centuries after the legend is
set. It is a time of civil war and just being drafted to
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A witch is burned at the stake in Ireland and Sir Richard
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book starts off a bit slow and strange but after a quarter the hero
goes on a quest and that part if full of riddles and mysteries.</span></span></p><p><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body"><span>I
wonder what symbolism the author had in mind what is Ida. Stress
creating bad behavior? That part stays a bit odd but for the rest it is a
captivating story that made me think of the computergame I once played
what was based on Lord of the Rings. </span></span></p><p><span class="a-size-base review-text review-text-content" data-hook="review-body"><span>Weird but intriguing. And written definitely by someone who loves dogs <br /></span></span></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p> </p>
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and she is just a gentleman's daughter she is the one with money and she
rather not marries to keep her independence. What in my opinion does
not feel 19th century. Who wants to forsake love and children from the
start? Why not try and find real love? So as young people she has
conspired with him to pretend to court. But when she walks in on him
ballsdeep in a singer she breaks of their pretend tendre and their
friendship.<p></p><p><br />Six years later Charles needs money and a rich wife,
Louisa is toying with the idea to take a lover. Lots is happening what
makes the novel a bit slow but more realistic. The pair is surrounded by
secondary characters. Some of their stories are just an open ended
hint.</p><p><br />Somehow I would think a 1910 setting would have suited better (early feminism rising).</p><p><br />The cover is beautiful.
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