Northwich Library

I use my local library quiet a lot even though we have the internet in the house.
Why?
 I just love the library being out the house, no distractions, not being hounded by my dogs for attention, I get a bit of quiet time.
 
What does your library look like? 

Mine has authors come and talk about their books,
Kids and adult reading clubs,
Free hour on the computers you can reserve books if they don't have them in the library

Northwich Library
 















 

Mildred Ryder - Peace Pilgrim

Mildred Ryder, better known as Peace Pilgrim, was born today in 1908. Beginning in 1953, she spent 28 years walking across the United States with few possessions and no money to her name. The back of her tunic read: “25,000 miles on foot for peace.”

 
Expressing her ideas about peace, she referred to herself only as "Peace Pilgrim." Peace Pilgrim's only possessions were the clothes on her back and the few items she carried in the pockets of her blue tunic which read "Peace Pilgrim" on the front and "25,000 Miles on foot for peace" on the back. She had no organizational backing, carried no money, and would not even ask for food or shelter. When she began her pilgrimage she had taken a vow to "remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace, walking until given shelter and fasting until given food."
On July 7, 1981, while being driven from the Chicago area to a speaking engagement near Knox, Indiana, Peace Pilgrim was killed in an automobile accident. At the time of her death, she was crossing the United States for the seventh time. After her death, her body was cremated, and her ashes were interred in a family plot near Egg Harbour City, New Jersey.
 
A few words from the lady herself:
In order for the world to become peaceful, people must become more peaceful. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible. In their immaturity people want, at the same time, peace and the things which make war. However, people can mature just as children grow up. Yes, our institutions and our leaders reflect our immaturity, but as we mature we will elect better leaders and set up better institutions. It always comes back to the thing so many of us wish to avoid: working to improve ourselves.
 
 


 
 

Northwich Canal

I don't often talk about where I live but my town has just had a new canal built and I think it is just great here's a few pictures.












Betty!

Let me tell you all what happened I was walking to work this morning and came across a bat on the floor I didn't know what to do first of all I walked passed it and thought let nature take its course but every step I took I was feeling more guilty so I turned around and picked it up with a tissue and took it home put it in a bucket I found under the sink with some tissue and put a tea towel over it, it was there when I came home.
I was going to take it to the vets but today is Sunday and the vets is shut so I looked up online on how to care for it till I can take it some where.
 
This is what it told me:
DO NOT handle a bat with bare hands, 
 do not attempt to rehabilitate the bat on your own: 
To do so could jeopardize your safely as well as the life of the bat.
 Line a box with an old t-shirt so the bat has something to hang upside-down on. Create some pleats in the shirt so the bat can hide if it wants to. 
(Make sure any tape that is used is secured well so the bat won’t get stuck.)
 Put a small amount of water in a small, shallow container like a baby food jar lid. Place the lid on the bottom of the container and next to a wall so the bat can hang over it to drink. Make sure a top is secured to the box as some bats can squeeze through a crack as thin as 1/4″! 
If you must handle the bat please remember to wear thick gloves (even though rabies is rare in bats, if it bites you it will need to be euthanized and tested). Until help is located, keep the box in a room where the bat won’t get too warm or too cold and keep the bat away from children and pets.
 


 
 

Nothing Last Forever


Every time it rains, it stops raining. 
 Every time you get hurt, you heal. 
After darkness there is always light – you are reminded of this every morning, but still you often forget, and instead choose to believe that the night will last forever.  

It won’t.
  
Nothing lasts forever.
 
 

Central Library, Liverpool

 
This library is amazing if you past the modern part and into the back you will come across the old stuff which I always thing is the best. They have a amazing collection of rare and ancient books.
This library Houses the statue of Hugh Fredrick Hornby if you know the history he donated all the collection of his book along with £10,000 to build a building to house the books when he died.
 

 
Here some more amazing pictures of the library its self.