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[2] Journal of the Early Settlers' and Historical Association of Wellington, Volume I, Issue 2, 1912/13. ³ Journal of the Early Settlers' and Historical Association of Wellington, Volume I, Issue 2, 1912/13.

[3] www.whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk

[4] from http://www.whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk/Past.htm This is backed up in the following account http://canterburyhttp://canterbury-cathedral.org/community/bellringers.htmlcathedral.org/community/bellringers.html

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel_Bell_Foundry lists the master founders of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry from 1420 to 1997.

[6] http://www.towerbells.org/data/IXfoundryWhitechapel.html

[7] www.casebook.org/ripper_media/book_reviews/non-fiction/cjmorley/44.html (accessed Nov 2012)

[8] From http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5s38/1, Biography note by Julia Brooke-White

[9] From http://niddfamily.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/edwin-and-mary-bannister-and-family.html accessed August 2012

[10] NZ Truth on 21 January 1911

[11] Wanganui Chronicle on 10 August 1910

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Berlin

I'm a bit daunted writing about Berlin.

Somehow I'm happy to put down a couple of paragraphs about many other cities and towns I've visited but there are some that seem too complicated for a quick 'off the cuff' summary. Sydney of course, my present home town, and past home towns like New York and London. I know just too much about them for a glib first impression.

Although I've never lived there I've visited Berlin on several occasions for periods of up to a couple of weeks. I also have family there and have been introduced to their circle of friends.

So I decided that I can't really sum Berlin up, any more that I can sum up London or New York, so instead I should pick some aspects of uniqueness to highlight.

Fiction, Recollections & News

We hired a Jeep

In Sicily we hired a Jeep to get from Palermo around the island.

I had my doubts about this steed. Our two big bags wouldn't fit in the boot. One had to be strapped in on the back seat - a bit disappointing.

At above 130, the speed limit, there's something odd about the steering – so much so that I stopped quite soon to check the tyre pressures. I was regretting my choice.

Reassured about the tyres we set off again.

On the plus side the fuel consumption seemed OK and the zoned climate control worked well.

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Jihad

In my novella The Cloud I have given one of the characters an opinion about 'goodness' in which he dismisses 'original sin' as a cause of evil and suffering and proposes instead 'original goodness'.

Most sane people want to 'do good', in other words to follow that ethical system they were taught at their proverbial 'mother's knee' (all those family and extended influences that form our childhood world view).

That's the reason we now have jihadists raging, seemingly out of control, across areas of Syria and Iraq and threatening the entire Middle East with their version of 'goodness'.

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