I wish you a Merry Christmas and happy New Year!
I wish you every success! Be happy!

It’s a good idea!

A man can be a fool even without knowing that, but only if he is not married.

I absolutely disagree...

I absolutely disagree with Melden that people are afraid to fly by planes. I think, there are few of such people. The majority of people presently spend almost all their forces and time for earning money with the purpose to spend them for their pleasures. I don’t speak certainly about Africa and other poor countries where many people just have nothing to eat.

But person’s fear is before something unknown, unidentified. I for example can be easily persuaded to dive to the seabed or even to do some flying in a spacecraft of aliens. The prospect to lose my job is frightening me more! Americans for example continue to spend huge money for entertainments and for Iraq war, but very few people from them worry that the huge economic problem is already knocked on their door!

That’s a joyous life! Probably it would be profitable only to insurance companies if to shoot a movie or to write a book about this person.

I'm fine...

It’s an auto-suggestion. I do not love changes - when my life goes not under the plan. I do not like, when something unexpected happens. Probably in my previous life I was a frog and lived in a bog....

Fearless

Today my daughter categorically refused music lesson. It was a jolly morning. I had to give a educative talk and everything has took its place.

Today I have found a buyer for my old car. If I’ll have luck I’ll sell it till the end of this week. Unfortunately I have to part with it.

Good Santorini Hotels

My daughter saw today a terrible dream. It was something frightful with worms. But the most important was that in the morning she saw a good dream and consequently we have met morning in good mood.

But I had to spend several hours to find a site on Santorini hotels with prices for 2008.

This is a real disease for Greece! There are almost no prices for the next year and everybody is sent to the spring when there will not be places in good Santorini and Mykonos hotels. And this happens every year.

In general, it seems to me that Greeks do not know how to get rid of tourists that come and come!

Who knows, may be my daughter will fly for her holiday somewhere to Mars:)

Today my daughter had a very good music lesson. I am happy, because her last three lessons were just terrible! I talked to her last night and today in the morning. I tried to dispose her. Probably I’ve managed to do that and therefore today is a very good day!

However it is very important to find necessary and kind words!

It's Over

So my holiday has come to the end. It is a pity.

But I have firmly decided to reconsider my working schedule to make work more effectively. It is necessary to reconstruct my work for more free time which I wish to devote to my son.

He needs more and more time and care. I think, I will manage to do everything on the highest level!

Today I have read through this article about how difficult is invalids’ life.

It is just severe so to act like that. It’s ok when healthy people pay money for the goods or services - they always have a choice. I, for example, never drive on free-of-charge roads and do not buy cheap products. But to rook invalids in such way is improbably impudently. They do not have choice unless absolutely to cancel a trip.

There is not enough kindness and care to feeble in our world.

Probably for these people money is the most important thing in the world!

The Wolf and the Goat

There was once a goat who built herself a little house in the woods and gave birth to a family of kids. The mother goat would often go out to seek for food, and the kids would lock the door behind her and never so much as show their noses outside. The mother goat would come back, knock at the door and sing out:

"My kiddies own, my children dear,

Open the door, for your mother is here!

By a stream I walked, on a grass-grown bank,

Of fresh grass I ate, of cool water drank;

I bring you milk which is rich and sweet,

It runs from my udder down to my feet!"

The kids would open the door and let in their mother, the mother goat would feed them and go off to the woods again, and they would lock the door behind her just as they had before.

Now, the wolf heard the mother goat call to her kids, and one day when she had just gone out, he stole up to the house and cried in his gruff voice:

"My kiddies own, my children dear,

Open the door, for your mother is here.

I bring you milk which is rich and sweet,

It runs from my udder down to my feet!"

And the kids called back: "We hear you, whoever you are, but that isn't our mother's voice. Mother's voice is thin and sweet and the words she says are different." The wolf went away and hid himself, and after a while the mother goat came back home. She knocked at the door and sang out:

"My kiddies own, my children dear,

Open the door, for your mother is here!

By a stream I walked, on a grass-grown bank,

Of fresh grass I ate, of cool water drank;

I bring you milk which is rich and sweet,

It runs from my udder down to my feet!"

The kids let in their mother and told her about the wolf and about how he had wanted to eat them up. The mother goat fed the kids, and, before leaving for the woods, told them very sternly indeed that if anyone came to the house, asked to be let in in a gruff voice and not used the very same words as she they were not to let him in on any account. She had no sooner left than the wolf came running up. He knocked at the door and sang out in a thin little voice:

"My kiddies own, my children dear,

Open the door, for your mother is here.

By a stream I walked, on a grass-grown bank,

Of fresh grass I ate, of cool water drank;

I bring you milk which is rich and sweet,

It runs from my udder down to my feet!"

The kids opened the door, and the wolf rushed in and gobbled them all up save for one little kid who had crawled into the stove and hidden himself there.

By and by the mother goat came home, but call and shout as she would no one answered her. She gave the door a push, and seeing that it was unlocked, ran inside. The house was empty, but she glanced into the stove, and lo!—found one little kid there. Great was the mother goat's grief when she heard what had happened to her children. Down she dropped on the bench and began sobbing loudly, saying over and over again:

"O my children dear, î my kiddies own,

Why did I ever leave you alone?

For the wicked wolf you opened the door,

Never, I fear, will I see you more!"

The wolf heard her, and, coming into the house, said: "Why do you make me out to be such a villain, Mistress Goat? I would never eat your kids! Do not grieve but come for a walk in the woods with me." "No, Mister Wolf, I'm in no mood for a walk." "Please come, please!" the wolf begged.

They went to the woods and soon came to a hole in the ground with a fire burning in it. It had been used by some robbers for cooking gruel in and they had not doused the flames. "Come, Wolf, let us see which of us can jump over the hole!" said the mother goat. To this the wolf agreed. He leapt across, but tripped and fell into the fire. His belly burst open from the heat, and out the kids hopped, safe and sound, and ran straight to their mother. And they lived happily ever after. The wiser from year to year they grew and never a day of misfortune knew.

Translated by Irina Zheleznova

Australia

I support Australian aboriginals. Besides the fact that they have lost their lands and the government force them to live as it wants they don’t have any possibility to choose. When people have a choice they become more kind.

Finally yesterday I’ve understood how to make pictures with my new camera! Often happens that I want to make a picture of one thing but something in front of that thing hinders me. For example to photograph a parrot in a cage - the cage is always hindering. But yesterday I’ve managed to do I wanted. It’s so nice to realize that I can achieve that I’ve planned.

Rodos

Yesterday my old friend called me up. We have met last time long time ago. He’s moved to Rodos (Rhodos). He is very glad and happy that he lives there in his old age. And now I became very interested in this island. I want to find more pictures about it in the internet.

My friend has shown her page ad I want to make something like that too.

Finally I started my account in this eShop. I like it!

This Santorini picture is wonderful! Thank you Timfarmer!

Athens

What an ineteresting picture on blog, are you going to post more?

Adin opened new blog! That's great!

How We Spend Our Money

Finally we have collected enough money to buy a new car instead of our old Ford. It’s interesting what for people spend the most part of their money? Is that such expensive cars or may be they pay a lot for the fuel. Or may be people spend more money for clothes? But I think most probably we spend too much for food. Or may be this is something else?

my future trip to London

Very soon I’ll go on a conference in London. My boss always books rooms in the Novotel City South hotel, but this time this hotel is fully booked. So he has booked another hotel – the Mostyn hotel. As I know this hotel is better then another one. But in general this is unimportant. But what is really important is that I will have a possibility to see my friend! I haven’t seen her from school. Finally I will talk to her not through the internet but may be somewhere in a small London café. I also want to see her daughter so I have to buy some presents for them.

microbes

Today my daughter asked me about the microbes. Children have been scared at the kindergarten with saying that those who does not wash hands have thousands and even millions microbes on hands.
Well, in fact they could have explained what the microbes are.
And how to explain that some of them are not harmful for us but instead useful.
Those ones, for instance, inhabiting our bowels, but how did they get there if not from the dirty hands?
Well, I am lucky the school is only in some years.

Appropriate Mobile Phone.

I have chosen one good mobile phone after searching the whole of the Internet and visiting a lot of shops. Everybody tells a story about how good is that or another phone.

Somebody needs a phone with good camera; another needs a phone with big memory size. But I’m interested in a phone that will let me know about discharged battery in low tones and not yelling in the middle of the night!

I haven’t found any mobile phone with that function to be settled. It’s a real problem for me!