2011-My take on the year, man a lot happened!
She finds Gramps real funny The year started perfectly with a perfectly lovely Evelyn being born on the 30th of December! January and the first tremors of the explosive revolt in Tunisia are being felt elsewhere in the Arab world. In December 2010.a spark ignited the Arab Awakening. The fuel for that spark was Mohamed Bouazizi 's self -immolated body. The light of that mans sacrifice, brought about by maddening frustration, illuminated for a moment the vermen who controlled the population and lived largely in the shadows away from western eyes. The human fireball outside the Tunisian government offices was seen as a call to revolt. How could it not be? The sacrifice of this man in a country so corrupt, in a society where misogyny, religious favoritism and radical nepotism are common place, in a geographical area that is overlooked by western media, how could you stand by! Not while your peers lig...