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Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

RAANTHAI PACKAGE REVIEW

                                  

*TAKEN FROM THE WEBSITE*

RaanThai offers Europe's largest online selection of fresh, frozen and packaged Thai food and other Oriental foodstuffs, with next-working-day delivery available to your home or business. Thousands of products are available, and more are added weekly.

They are based in the UK (thank mother nature for that). When it comes to ordering you have to spend over £20 which I think is good and you can easily do that, I always do because they have a wide range of foreign food from Thailand, Philippines, Japan, Korea, Malaya, Indonesia and China. Postage is £5.58 plus tax.

RaanThai Oriental Supermarket
Unit A2, North Cheshire Trading Estate
Preston, Merseyside, CH43 3DU









Memorial Day For Comfort Woman in South Korea 14th March

      Memorial Day in South Korea for Comfort Woman

The international memorial day was held for Asian women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.
The National ceremony marking the International Memorial Day for Comfort Women took place at the Hill of National Commemoration in Cheonan, south of Seoul, with the slogan of "memory for the future."
About 100 people, including elderly Korean women sexually enslaved by the imperial Japanese army, participated.
South Koreans have called on Japan to offer a sincere apology and compensation for the victims, but the neighbouring country has remained silent.
It is the third time that the government has hosted a national ceremony commemorating the day since 2018, when it was designated a national memorial day. 

The International Memorial Day for Comfort Women falls on Aug. 14th, the day when the late Kim Hak-soon, a former comfort woman, first publicly testified about Japan operating an organized military brothel program during the war in 1991.


"The testimony by Kim Hak-soon resonated across the globe, revealing the truth and the violence against women," she said. "Now we have to think of what we can learn from the tragedy in history."
The government then opened a digital archive that stored more than 500 files of documents and materials on "comfort women," a euphemistic term for the former sex slaves. 
The online depository (www.archive814.co.kr) includes reports by the United Nations forces during the Korean War and official statements by the Japanese government.

Up to 200,000 women, mostly Koreans, were coerced into sexual servitude in front-line Japanese brothels when the Korean Peninsula was a Japanese colony.





Road Trip To Blackpool

        Hey you beautiful people,
 I hope you have all been well and healthy.

Not much has happened really other than my mother and father got in touch and took me for the day in Blackpool.
We did the usual went shopping, walked down the pier which by the way was very windy, I bought us some hot sugary donuts which we all loved, we then came back home and stopped off at Windermere where had curry and chips by the lake and watched the boats. 
It was amazing to be out below are some videos of the day.




Pride History


Recent NewsOn June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that it is illegal for an employer to fire someone because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The 6-3 ruling adds LGBTQ people to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which forbids discrimination based on sex, race, color, national origin and religion. 

What does LGBTQ stand for: 
L - Lesbian
G - Gay
B - Bisexual
T - Transgender
Q - Queer/ Questioning

Stone Riots a brief history: Very few establishments welcomed gay people in the 1950s and 1960s. At the time Stonewall Inn was owned by mafia, it catered to the poorest and most marginalised people in the community: Butch Lesbians, Effeminate young men, Drag Queens, Male Prostitutes, Transgender people and Homeless Youths. A year after Stonewall on June 28th 1970 the first gay pride marches took place in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The Stonewall Monument was established at the site in 2016.
Lillian Faderman calls the riots the 'Shots heard around the world' saying 'The Stonewall Rebellion was crucial because it sounded the rally for that movement, it became emblem of gay and lesbian power'.

 

LGBTQ timeline: 1688 to 2020
  • 1688 - 1704 - Kagemachaya a Japanese gay bar first opens in japan
  • 1785 - Jeremy Betham is one of the first people to argue for the decriminalization of sodomy in England.
  • 1794 - The kingdom of Prussia abolishes the death penalty for sodomy.
  • 1794 - Luxemburg decriminalises sodomy
  • 1794 - Belgium decriminalises sodomy.
  • 1807 - The Duchy of Warsaw is created and re - legalizing same sex sexual intercourse.
  • 1835 - The last known execution for homosexuality in Great Briton. James Prall and John Smith are hanged at Newgate after being caught together in private lodgings.
  • 1890 - Homosexuality is legalised in the Vatican.
  • 1895 - The trail of Oscar Wilde resulted in him being prosecuted under criminal law amendment act 1885 for gross indecency and sentenced to two years in prison.
  • 1906 - The first gay American novel with a happy ending Imre is published.
  •  1921 -  England attempts to make lesbians illegal for the first time in Britain history fails.
  • 1931 - Madchen in uniform is one of the first explicitly lesbian films and the first pro - lesbian film released.
  • 1938 - The word gay is used for the first time in film reference to homosexuality in the film Bringing Up The Baby.
  • 1941 - Transsexuality was first used in reference to homosexuality and bisexuality.
  • 1952 - The male homosexual magazine 'Adonis' is launched with the writer Yukio Mishima as a contributor in Japan.  
  • 1972 - Sweden becomes the first country to allow transsexuals to legally change their sex and provide free hormone therapy.
  • 1991 - The Red Ribbon was first used as a symbol for HIV/AIDS campaign.
1993 - Brandon Teena was raped and murdered, he was a trans man. 
  •  2001 - Same sex marriage laws came into effect in the Netherlands with joint adoption.
  • 2003 - Buffy the vampire slayer showed girlfriends Willow and Tara in bed together (not a sex scene) but a first for its kind for the Network. 
2005 - Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni were executed in Iran for allegedly raping a 13 year old boy or for just being gay?? 
(this one doesn't make sense to me so I have posted the official link to see if you can understand itHere's the story     

                            
  • 2009 - Carol Ann Duffy was chosen as the first openly gay poet laureate in the UK.
  • 2012 - Taiwan's first same sex Buddhist wedding was for Fish Huang and her partner You Ya-Ting ❤
  • 2013 - Todd Hughes became the first openly gay US Circuit Judge.
  • 2014 - The first open transgender woman got married in Malta.
  • 2016 - Amanda Nunes become UFCs first openly gay champion.
  •  2017 - Queer art show leads Tate 2017 programme
  • 2018 - The first time in history of the winter Olympics that male athletes competed in who were openly gay.
  • 2019 -  Prince Harry and Megan became the first British royals to celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month.
  • 2020 - The US Supreme Court ruled a federal law protecting gay, lesbian and transgender employees from work place discrimination. 
There's a million other mile stones that have happened over the years good and bad above are a few that jumped out at me.

What are your most memorable things throughout LGBTQ History?
















BOOK: Witch Child by Celia Rees

My Opinion: I can't stop talking about this book it is great easy read. 
There are some parts where I skipped the religious jabber and get back to the story of the witches'. Everyone must read highly recommend if your going threw a bit of a reading slump like I was.
 
 
Book Plot:
Enter the world of young Mary Newbury, a world where simply being different can cost a person her life. Hidden until now in the pages of her diary, Mary's startling story begins in 1659, the year her beloved grandmother is hanged in the public square as a witch. Mary narrowly escapes a similar fate, only to face intolerance and new danger among the Puritans in the New World. How long can she hide her true identity? Will she ever find a place where her healing powers will not be feared?

BOOK: The Death and Life Of Charlie ST Cloud


The death and life of charlie st cloud

Charlie St. Cloud has been given the gift of seeing his deceased brother, but when a new love interest is in trouble he must choose between saving a life or continuing to see his brother everyday.

This film is best served with a bottle of wine and loads of tissues!
Its defiantly a tear jerker, i welled up a few times.
I liked the film its a sloppy romance.
But the book is very different obviously more detail but still very different.

Don't you just hate it when the don't make them the same?!





FILM: The Family

As you all know i am not good at doing reviews so we will just talk about it my way.

The family
The Manzoni family a notorious mafia clan is relocated to Normandy, France under the witness protection program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.

My thoughts: This is a good film over all. I love it when the lady asks for peanut butter and then ends up blowing up the store, another good bit is when the plumber comes and he ends up beating the shit out of him then taking him to the hospital.
The only problem with this film is it just ends! 
After a huge fight it just ends, I was disappointed.






Bailey 💖

Since i got this little man we have just grown stronger and stronger together i think it's about time i told you all our story. 
Back in the days i had lost my job, i got very depressed and was spiraling down a dark hole i didn't want to eat of even get out of bed i got so ill, my husband at the time took me out for the day to the Cheshire dogs home link here i wasn't really interested in getting a dog i could barely look after myself but walking round i see a dog cowering in the corner he was a cavalier king Charles he looked petrified and scared out of his whits i bent down to the cage then all of a sudden this hug dog came at me and started barking like crazy.
We asked the woman if we could have a look at the king Charles she brought him out and he sat with me on the floor just leaning against me i new right then i was not leaving without him and he new it to, i think.
Getting him was a pain in the arse it was my husbands pay day so we new we had some money but none of the bank cards where working so we had to go back into town withdraw the money out then back to the dog's home where hopefully he still was.
We paid £100 for him because he is a full pedigree dog but the dogs home burned his papers. I spoiled him rotten got a him a giant bowls and toys and chew sticks he lives like a king.
Over time we noticed he wasn't so good with other dogs and when it came to humans he was literally a ankle biter, he had good manners.
You see he saved me and i saved him, he gets me up and out, he has me running across fields with him no matter what the weather, we run across beaches, i get wet sloppy kisses in the morning, he has leaned where the biscuit tin is. Recently we got him neutered and he has put on so much weight we are going to be doing more running i think, he farts and snores like a trooper he eats everything in sight and gets under you feet but i wouldn't have him and other way. This year i am working on getting a passport for him so i can take him travelling with me last time i went it was murder for me not having him around.
Here's a few cheeky moments since i got him. I have had him for 3 year i think now.