Ben's Bells

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I thought I'd share the story of Ben's Bells.

https://bensbells.org/

 

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Here's a Ben's Bell for TLT. Be Kind.

 

[anjelica]

Love it tad.

 

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Every week in the morning paper there's an article on the latest recipient of a Ben's Bell.

Every time I read it cry out to heaven, "Where's my @#%* bell!"

 

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It's been weeks since my last post and still no @#%* bell.

 

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Last week's Ben's Bell recipient was posted in the paper this morning. It went to a couple of yoga teachers who encourage laughter.

 

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[Colin]

Big Ben's famous chimes have been silenced until 2021 to allow essential repair works to take place.
Big Ben's bongs to fall silent until 2021

 

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Big Ben's famous chimes have been silenced until 2021 to allow essential repair works to take place.
Big Ben's bongs to fall silent until 2021

The first time I saw Big Ben was in the summer of 1986. It was sunrise and we were crossing the Thames on a bus from Paris. Big Ben and Parliament had just been given a good cleaning with soap and water and they both gleamed in the early morning sun. It was a very beautiful and memorable moment.

 

[Colin]

we were crossing the Thames on a bus from Paris.

I am trying to picture the scene

 

[Colin]

The first time I saw Big Ben was in the summer of 1986. It was sunrise and we were crossing the Thames on a bus from Paris. Big Ben and Parliament had just been given a good cleaning with soap and water and they both gleamed in the early morning sun. It was a very beautiful and memorable moment.

That brings back memories of a school holiday in Paris in 1961 . We travelled overnight to London . Then we went to Westminster Cathedral for Mass . After that we took the boat train to Dover , crossed the English Channel by boat to Calais , and then by train to Paris . We stayed in a French boarding school not far from the Eiffel Tower . It had a lovely chapel , and for the first time we had the old Latin Mass with the priest facing us . The school was the Lycée Janson de Sailly .Monsieur Janson de Sailly was a wealthy Parisian lawyer, who found out that his wife had a lover. Therefore, he decided to disinherit her and to bequeath all of his fortune to the State, under the condition that it be used to establish a modern high school that would offer an excellent education and in which no women would be allowed.The lycée was built in the 1880s . Quite an impressive place.....

 

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I am trying to picture the scene

It was a lot prettier than that, Colin.

 

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This week's recipient.

Derek Downey, left with bell, Kona the rescued dog and Jeff Baldauf.

Man recognized for rescuing, caring for neglected animals