Lady Breeze

The sunshine on the long white road  That ribboned down the hill, The velvet clematis that clung Around your window-sill Are waiting for you still.  Again the shadowed pool shall break  In dimples at your feet, And when the thrush sings in your wood, Unknowing you may meet Another stranger, Sweet.  And if he is not quite so old As the boy you used to know, And less proud, too, and worthier, You may not let him go--- (And daisies are truer than passion-flowers)  It will be better so. Roland Leighton to Vera Brittain

Violets from Plug Street Wood, Sweet, I send you oversea. (It is strange they should be blue, Blue, when his soaked blood was red, For they grew around his head: It is strange they should be blue.) Think what they have meant to me - Life and hope and Love and You (and you did not see them grow Where his mangled body lay Hiding horrors from the day; Sweetest, it was better so.) Violets from oversea, To your dear, far, forgetting land These I send in memory Knowing you will understand. Roland Leighton to Vera Brittain

Down the long white road we walked together Down between the grey hills and the heather, Where the tawny-crested Plover cries. You seemed all brown and soft, just like a linnet, Your errant hair had shadowed sunbeams in it, And there shone all April In your eyes. With your golden voice of tears and laughter Softened into song 'Does aught come after Life,' you asked 'When life is Laboured through? What is God and all for which we're striving?' 'Sweetest sceptic, we were born for living; Life is Love, and Love is--- You, dear, you.' Roland Leighton to Vera Brittain

I didn't really have the chance to write about the "Royal Wedding" earlier, so here you go…  Friday the 29 th , was a big day for the Brits. It was a national celebration actually it’s an old tradition since the British monarchy started. Everyone was talking about the Royal Wedding, even the people here in Cairo . I was surprised to hear about the majority of people from all over the world who attended or flow extra to London in order to take part of the celebration. It’s also quite interesting to hear about people who camped in Trafalgar Square, in central London . It reminds me back then, when people used to camp in “Ring Straße” in Vienna during the European Championship in 2008 or in Tahrir Square, but containing different events. I personally think it’s a bit too much for a wedding, although it’s not a “Normal Wedding”, but I believe that weddings should be shared between family and close friends, between people you love and not between million of people’s, hon...