Happy Easter

Happy Easter, Passover, Spring to everyone. S and I have had a nice day today while poor M had to work. Sam's day started with an easter egg treasure hunt thanks to the easter bunny. he was delighted to eventually find his easter basket hiding in dryer. The easter bunny had kindly given him a chocolate egg and a scooby doo dvd. Needless to say he was delighted and enjoyed the hunt and then watching the dvd. He is getting quite good at solving the mystery before the gang-perhaps we have a budding dective on our hands! We went down to my sister in law's to spend the day with them and my in laws. All the boys played well together and really enjoyed the easter egg hunt that Jo had organised. Not sure how much chocolate was consumed but it was probably way too much. Oh well, normal service will return tomorrow. My in laws gave sam a really cool swing tennis/soccer set so we had to set that up when we got home. We both enjoyed a quick game of swing tennis-no doubt this is going to be lots of use over the summer.

I don't usually get political on this blog but a news story this week made me really mad. I found it on the bbc and have included the site address below. Basically during the invasion in Iraq the coalition forces not only thought it was a good idea to build a landing pad smack dab in the middle of the ancient site of Babylon but they also allowed soldiers to fill sandbags with finds from the site!!! I can't believe that they were so ignorant that they didn't realise what they are doing-this is one fo the most famous sites in the world there is no excuse for abuse like this. they have now apologised but sadly the damage has been done. they also justified their actions by saying that worse may have happened if they hadn't been there. I am sorry but this is no justification for what they have done just a very poor excuse. I appreciate that I may be slightly biased when it comes to archaeological sites but what they did shows disrespect not only for our shared historical past but also for the local culture. How would we feel if foreign nation came in and set up camp at Mount Vernon or Plymouth Plantation? We would quite rightly be outraged. We owe history and the Iraqis more than an apology-the us government should not only pay for restoring the damage but also fund on going research indefinately. sorry to rant on what is probably not important to anyone else.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4908940.stm