@saniyafatma1278 When I was in junior high (7th thru 9th grade) girls had basic cooking, and sewing. Guys had auto mechanics. I wish I could have signed up for auto mechanics because it seemed the most practical but in those days it was a boys only class. I think it's good to teach basic skills.
@EnglishRose543@exRAF_Al Hi, EnglishRose. I liked the post not because I was in agreement about having lost me, but in support of Anne's kindness regarding the umbrella. I like William and Catherine and agree with you about family values, high morals, no nonsense, and kind.
I am a monarchist, but the current lot have lost me. There is one exception, Princess Anne. Forthright and unflinching, direct and unvarnished, even when the IRA trying to kidnap her. Here she is passing her umbrella to a Dean because she had a hat and the Dean didn’t. Brilliant.
🇬🇧 On a Berkshire hillside there is a chalk horse 3,000 years old.
100 generations of British people have refused to let it fade.
Its name is the Uffington White Horse. It sits on the chalk of the Berkshire Downs. And it was cut around 1,000 BC by Britons of the Late Bronze Age.
They cut a trench into the turf. And filled it with crushed chalk. They cut a horse 110 metres long. Visible from miles.
Chalk hillside art does not last. Grass grows. Silt fills. Without care, a chalk figure disappears within a generation.
🏔️ The Uffington White Horse should have vanished by the Iron Age. It did not.
Because every generation that has lived near it has scoured it. Cleared the grass. Refilled the chalk. Kept the design alive.
The Iron Age tended it. Rome tended it. The Anglo-Saxons named the hill after it. A Welsh poem of 600 AD mentioned it as already ancient. Medieval villagers held a festival to scour it. Victorian villagers wrote songs about it. And every year, modern volunteers continue.
3,000 years of British people. Bronze Age carvers. Iron Age tribes. Roman Britons. Anglo-Saxon farmers. Medieval villagers. Victorian families. And the British still here today.
The carvers who cut the horse became Britons. Their descendants became the British. 100 generations have tended the same horse. 100 generations have refused to let it fade. The horse is alive because the people have stayed.
This is what continuity looks like. Not a memory. Not a museum. A horse kept alive by hand.
🇬🇧 If you want to know whether the British are still here, look up.
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The chalk has been re-cut by hand for 3,000 years.
Most British kids have never been up the hill.
Our work is made in Britain, for Britain.
Take your kids up the hill. 🙏
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Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
🇨🇮 Meet the Zaouli, one of the hardest dances in the world. A centuries-old tradition from the Guro people of Ivory Coast, always performed by men. The footwork alone will break your brain.
The legs don't lie.
This is one of my favorite videos of all time. As a child psychologist, it’s a perfect example of joint attention, preverbal communication, and coregulation.