Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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On the night of 31st December 1999 my wife, my son, his girlfriend, and I travelled in a chartered Jubilee Line train from Westminster (we’d been at a reception at the House of Lords) to North Greenwich to see in the turn of the millennium at what was then known as the [...]
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Consider this. You’re standing at the end of a street of more than a hundred houses. It looks like it’s going to rain – in fact, you just felt a few drops on your head. There’s a noisy gang of lads working on a white van in front of a house on the other side [...]
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Tendayi Chingeye, a delegate from Zimbabwe.
A great new story on Bahá’í World News Service starts like this:
Experiencing the diversity of the human family can be humbling, as Bahá’ís attending their recent international convention learned.
Gregory C Dahl, a delegate from Bulgaria and former International Monetary Fund staffer thought it was the most diverse gathering of people [...]
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This used to be the Millennium Dome. Erica and I took part in the Dome’s grand opening in the presence of HM Queen after a reception in the House of Lords on the night of 31st December 1999 and into the early hours of 1st January 2000. What a night that was! Since then, [...]
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