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Christmas gift (to myself)
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who is celebrating this holiday! In Belgium, we don’t have this holiday on our calendar. However, this means the month of November is almost over and it is time for the non-Grinches to start thinking about the next holiday, Christmas or Hanukkah. Some of you want to count down to this holiday with an Advent calendar, and if you want the start down to begin on December 1st you will have to order today or tomorrow at the latest. I got a reminder from The Body Shop (https://www.thebodyshop.com/en-gb/gifts/beauty-advent-calendars/c/c00259) in an email this morning. So, I’m publishing this blog just in the nick of time, despite having…
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WW 2 book recommendations – part 6
I thought I had a draft saved of this blog on my laptop somewhere but it seems I didn’t or can’t find it at this time. While I should probably breathe new life into this blog with what I have been up to since January let’s stay slightly with the date this is published, namely Remembrance Day/Veterans Day. However, with everything going on in the world today it seems humankind didn’t really learn from history and we are only repeating it over and over again, while a lot of innocent people lose their lives. On my Kindle, I started some World War I novels, but at the moment I haven’t…