Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the monthly archives:
Jake with his first shoes
Originally uploaded by John Barnabas.
Jake is on his feet and walking now. It all happened quite quickly – he decided that walking was better than crawling, and he was away.
Grandma bought him his first pair of shoes today!
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And talking of Bilo, this post on his blog is enough to make your blood boil.
Today, the Ministry of Interior blamed the Baha’is for the so-called “crisis of the religion section on ID cards” and denied that there is a problem documenting “official religions.”
Well, it’s always good to blame the victims of human rights abuses [...]
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Erica and I were very pleased to welcome fellow Baha’i blogger, the redoubtable Bilo, author of the Baha’i Faith in Egypt blog, to our home for dinner on Friday evening. It was a great pleasure to meet and talk and get to know each other.
What’s more, we lit the wood-burning stove for him!
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I have just upgraded my blogging software to WordPress 2.1. WordPress is wonderful, but all upgrades bring problems. Some of my plugins are broken and each post appears three times. It will doubtless take me a few days to sort things out and get back onto an even keel.
In the meantime, I offer my apologies [...]
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Omid Djalili’s face is everywhere in London right now. Our famous Baha’i stand-up comedian and actor has a major tour on at the moment, and tour posters are all over London.
Omid Djalili’s tour poster almost opposite Harrods on London’s Brompton Road.
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The Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre has published an excellent report on the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran. You can download the full report here. If you don’t want the full report, you can download the executive summary here.
The story on Baha’i World News Service about this report begins in dramatic fashion:
The Iranian [...]
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So, it came in the night – at last we have some winter weather! But the snow won’t last. It’s enough to create the obligatory travel chaos, but this is not a serious cold period.
A programme on BBC TV the other night examined what life and the weather may well be like in 2020, [...]
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No, it’s not a joke! 2008 will be the International Year of the Potato, as declared in a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly.
The humble potato is a remarkable tuber and is one of the world’s most important foods.
You can read more here.
Let’s hope that the UN doesn’t make a terrible mash of the [...]
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I’ve just seen this story about Volker Grossmann, a dentist who’s a Baha’i. He and his family moved from Belgium to eastern Siberia some thirteen years ago to support the Baha’i community there.
The Grossmann family moved to the Russian capital in 1995, where they now live. Volker Grossmann opened his own clinic in 2001; his [...]
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I was pleased to read this obituary of the late and dearly loved Shamsi Navidi, a member of the UK Baha’i community until her recent passing.
Shamsi’s manifold services to the Faith, as a
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