y buy tickets 2 u.s to see museum of natural history??

is it to see the dinosaurs 1?
or to see the dinosaurs 2?
or to see elephants?
or to see the deep ocean creatures?
or to see the hitory of plants??
 click on one of the above mentioned links and i will take u (charge free) there :)

I have just finished reading kitty neale's lost angel =D

it feels pretty good that i started something and finished it all the way to the end.. yet it feels better that for the first time in my life i have finished sth useful.. i read A WHOLE BOOK that is 500 sth pages long...

as the story proceeded many unfortunate events happened to Ellen , which left her wretched and miserable for a lot of time..
first of all was earth's scum billy... well he is sod as Mable would say.. he got Ellen pregnant on her 16th birthday and was absolutely nonchalant about her or what she felt or the consequences.. Ellen started loathing herself and she loathed billy too.. when Ellen was in her 3rd month of pregnancy, Gertie (the family's savior) visited the stones to offer a brilliant solution to almost all there current problems :accommodation, shortage of food,supplies, and money...Ellen took the advantage of Gertie's presence and confessed to her parents who were utterly shocked at the news. the first solution to Ellen's problem would be getting billy to marry her..but that wouldn't work because he had gotten himself into trouble with sheila and married her... Gertie had come in time and the whole family decided to move to guildsth where Gertie and Maureen were starting a new business (the plant nursery)... Mable and her husband were shocked at the news too and offered financial help to assist Ellen and her baby.. Percy ,hearing what his brother had done , offered an alternative solution that is he marries Ellen and raises the child as his own under one condition .. (billy must never know that the child was his)..  his parents rejected the idea at first .. but he stubbornly insisted claiming that it were his fault.. had he not let billy take Ellen home alone none of this would have happened.

the stones moved into the lavender cottage that was a cozy place in a nice village away from London.. which was something that soothed Hilda a bit. there they hand a very nice neighbor (Valerie) whom Ellen got along with. Ellen and val were both pregnant ..and were really good friends though val had this weird feelings thing. everyone was happy now and settled down except for Ellen who would always ponder about their marriage ... will she ever love Percy ? her delivery was due in august .. she had given birth to a baby girl (Sarah) and she grew fond of the girl and of Percy too especially after billy, sheila,their son, Mable and her husband visited them. she was thankful that billy was not her husband for he mistreated his wife and was so selfish .. Percy was billy's character foil... he didn't have the good looks but he surely had a pure heart and was a gentleman who loved Ellen so much and cared about her and Sarah like no one else did.. Ellen had her own place now and a happy family... she kept visiting Valerie and val in return visited her too.. before moving out of her parents' place Ellen actually sat down and confided in Hilda ...sth that should have been done ages ago ..any way it was some time after Sarah was one year old that val visited Ellen. on her way back home she stopped to buy a loaf of bread and there the woman at the shop told her about the rumors that are spreading around about the truth of Gertie and Maureen's relationship... so hearing the news val went back to Ellen's to inform her of what she heard..

fearing that Gertie would be kicked out of town and that along with her , stone's would lose their jobs, their accommodation and so will the Johnson's, Ellen hurried to warn gertie taking sarah along with her . it was a 20 minutes walk to where gertie was... with plenty on her mind, ellen was distracted and did not pay attention to the road she was to cross.. and that's when .............aaaaaaaah this part is the saddest of the whole story... a lorry hit sarah...sarah flew away (literally) and there was sarah no more :( .
poor ellen was drowned with grief and had gone hysterical at the loss of her first, only, and beloved child... she rejected everyone and secluded herself folded in her own grief and misery... she did not want to see valerie any more especially that val had this feeling that sara wont make it to school... ellen shouldn't have been so harsh with val because it was not her fault.. she knew sth horrible was to happen but had no clue when or where or.... val's child (pauline) was one week younger than sara and she was having another baby... sixth months after the accident ellen started getting over that horrid incident ... she had a sort of obsession about whether there was an after life or not , and was going around seeking an answer to her questions.. she went to the church but it was of no help..then she took maureen's advise and went to the tiny spiritual church... but nothing made sense to her there.. when she was about to leave, a woman appeared saying that ellen was sad and that she might be able to make her feel better and gave ellen her card.. ellen visited her indeed.. the woman told her to seek comfort and solution in nature and told her that the solution to her question was close to home.. the women even read ellen's palm and told her that her future is one of good luck and optimism...

ever since sarah's death, ellen and percy visited sara's grave every week and put some new fresh flowers replacing the old one's ... it was sara's second birthday (or was supposed to be so) and ellen along with percy and the stones visited the grave yard... ellen was all grieving again remembering her daughter and how she never got to see her talk or walk ... she had blamed herself earlier for what had happened and thought to herself that she deserved to die because she "killed" her own daughter... a week later, ellen had good news that brought them happiness once more.. she was pregnant and it was percy's son or daughter she'd be delivering by the month of march... it was pauline's birthday and that's when ellen decided that she had done val wrong and it was time to pay an old good friend a visit...
val was more than pleased to see ellen and welcomed her in though she feared that ellen would be disturbed by the presence of pauline and robert... ellen said that it were ok and she would be fine... so val brought pauline , soothed her (she was sick, had a fever and a cold..)and let her play with her wooden toys where she once used to play with sara.. when they were all sitting, pauline asked her mom to bring juice for both her and erra (sarah).. both ellena and val were appalled and stunned and ellen knew that it were true that there was an after life, later she saw a butterfly and thought that it were sara and felt happy for she for sure saw the sign the runes stones' woman had once told her about...so they lived HAPPILY EVER AFTER (unless ,of course, neale had decided to write a second part of the story where they would be miserable again or perhaps she could kill hilda, doug or the new baby.. i dunno)
the story has a happy ending which is something i like.. kitty neale has managed to keep us reading the story for i always wanted to find out what was going to happen especially with ellen, what will she do? will she have a boy or a girl? would billy ever find out that it was his daughter who died in the accident...?? i dunno but it seemed throughout the story , that both hilda and ellen would be somehow attracted to religion and then would come back saying that it never existed and it was rather a waste of time, and later this would repeat...

ms shabana.. if u read this.. i would like to know y i am not being able to post any comments on your blog?! and btw 11 blue misses u :(

Patrick Henry

Virginia House of Burgesses

Born:	May 29, 1736
Birthplace:	Hanover County, Virginia
Education:	(Lawyer, Politician)
Work:	Elected to Virginia House of Burgesses, 1765; Admitted to the Bar of the General Court in Virginia, 1769; Elected to the Continental Congress, 1774; Virginia Militia Leader, 1775; Governor of Virginia, 1776-1778, 1784.
Died:	June 6, 1799

Portrait of Patrick Henry

"Radical," is a title that few men can wear with ease. The name Patrick Henry, during the revolution and for some time after, was synonymous with that word in the minds of colonists and Empire alike. Henry's reputation as a passionate and fiery orator exceeded even that of Samuel Adams. His Stamp Act Resolutions were, arguably, the first shot fired in the Revolutionary War.

Patrick Henry's personality was a curious antidote to the stern honor of Washington, the refined logic of Jefferson, and the well-tempered industry of Franklin. Young Henry was an idler and by many accounts a derelict; though everyone knew he was bright, he simply would not lift a finger except to his own pleasure. By the age of 10, his family knew that he would not be a farmer, and tried instead to train him toward academe. He would not apply himself to studies either. At age 21 his father set him up in a business that he bankrupted shortly thereafter. Finally the general public disgust in Hanover and pressure from his young family (he had married at the age of eighteen) caused him to study for six weeks and take the bar exam, which he passed, and begin work as a lawyer.
In 1764 he moved to Louisa county, Virginia, where, as a lawyer, he argued in defense of broad voting rights (suffrage) before the House of Burgesses. The following year he was elected to the House and soon became its leading radical member. It was that year that he proposed the Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions. Few members of the Burgesses, as aristocratic a group of legislators as existed in the colonies, would argue openly for defiance of Gr. Britain. Henry argued with remarkable eloquence and fervor in favor of the five acts, which by most accounts amounted to a treason against the mother country. In 1774 he represented Virginia in the First Continental Congress where he continued in the role of firebrand. At the outbreak of the revolution, he returned to his native state and lead militia in defense of Virginia's gunpowder store, when the royal Governor spirited it aboard a British ship. Henry forced the Governor Lord Dunmore to pay for the powder at fair price.
In 1776, Henry was elected Governor of Virginia. He was re-elected for three terms and then succeeded by Thomas Jefferson. He was again elected to the office in 1784. Patrick Henry was a strong critic of the constitution proposed in 1787. He was in favor of the strongest possible government for the individual states, and a weak federal government. He was also very critical of the fact that the convention was conducted in secret.
President Washington appointed him Secretary of State in 1795, but Henry declined the office. In 1799, President Adams appointed him envoy to France, but failing health required him to decline this office too. He died on June 6, 1799 at age of 63.

SPEECH IN THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION...

Virginia Conventions

 

For the 1788 convention that ratified the U.S. Constitution, see Virginia Ratifying Convention.

The Virginia Conventions were a series of five political meetings in the Colony of Virginia during the American Revolution. Because the House of Burgesses had been dissolved in 1774 by Royal Governor Lord Dunmore, the conventions served as a revolutionary provisional government until the establishment of the independent Commonwealth of Virginia in 1776.

First thru fourth conventions

The first convention was organized after Lord Dunmore dissolved the House of Burgesses when that body called for a day of prayer as a show of solidarity with Boston, Massachusetts, following the Boston Port Act. The Burgesses moved to Raleigh Tavern to continue meeting. The Burgesses declared support for Massachusetts and called for a congress of all the colonies, the Continental Congress. The Burgesses, operating as the first convention, on August 1, 1774, met and elected representatives to the Virginia convention, banned commerce and payment of debts with Britain, and pledged supplies and support to Boston.
The second convention opened in Richmond and met at St. John's Church on March 20, 1775. At the convention, Patrick Henry proposed arming the Virginia militia and delivered his "give me liberty or give me death" speech to rally support for the measure.
The third convention met in July 1775 after Dunmore had fled the capital and taken refuge on a British warship. The convention created a Committee of Safety to take over governance in the absence of Dunmore. The convention also divided Virginia into 16 military districts and resolved to raise regular regiments.
The fourth convention denounced Dunmore and declared that Virginians were ready to defend themselves "against every species of despotism."

Fifth convention

The fifth convention began May 6, 1776 and met in Williamsburg. On May 15, the convention declared independence from Britain and adopted a set of three momentous resolutions: one calling for a declaration of rights for Virginia, one calling for establishment of a republican constitution, and a third calling for federal relations with whichever other colonies would have them and alliance with whichever foreign countries would have them. It also instructed its delegates to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia to declare independence. Virginia's congressional delegation was thus the only one under unconditional positive instructions to declare independence; Virginia was already independent, and so its convention did not want their state, in the words of Benjamin Franklin, to "hang separately." According to James Madison's correspondence for that day, Williamsburg residents marked the occasion by taking down the Union Jack from over the colonial capitol and running up a continental union flag.
On June 7, Richard Henry Lee, one of Virginia's delegates to Congress, carried out these instructions and proposed independence in the language the convention had commanded him to use: that "these colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states." This paved the way for the American Declaration of Independence, which also reflected the idea that not one nation, but thirteen free and independent states were aborning on the east coast of North America.
Thr convention amended, and on June 12 adopted, George Mason's Declaration of Rights, a precursor to the United States Bill of Rights. On June 29, the convention approved the first Constitution of Virginia, which was also the first written constitution adopted by the people's representatives in the history of the world. The convention chose Patrick Henry as the first governor of the new Commonwealth of Virginia, and he was inaugurated on June 29, 1776. Thus, Virginia had a functioning, permanent, republican constitution before July 4, 1776 -- uniquely among the thirteen American colonies.

KITTY NEALE'S LOST ANGEL _ chaptera 21 - 30

it's funny, actually, and i never thought i would be saying this.. but the truth is that this 535 pages long story is quiet fascinating and interesting .it's weird that when i actually sat and read chapter after the other, in a seemingly helpless effort to finish before the deadline, i actually became indulgent in the story as it actually appeared to have lots of events and twists and turns. i admit it ...among the books that I've read so far, this one is the closest to watching a movie (which is something i love doing)..any way, let's not chat about it for it would probably take centuries...
sooo... chapters 21 - 30 (during those chapters many unexpected things occur):
when hilda left somerset i thought it would be the last time we'd hear about gertie.. but ..who knows?..gertie appear's to be their savior!..as conditions in london have gotten worse, hilda and ellen had no other choice but to move elsewhere.. that is to move to a safer place. when hilda returned to london earlier, she had minimal doubts that clapham would be bombed. she had put all her doubts on the shelf for she had a million other reasons to go back most of which were concerning ellen and how she'd have friends and go to a proper school....
many unfortunate events have happened to hilda in london like her loss of her parents and the loss of her long awaited child...and hence she began to actually believe that her stay in london was a bloody curse, more of an omen of bad luck and misfortune.. so now when things got worse...unexpectedly gertie appears again and tries to help hilda and ellen...
of course hilda did not forget what had happened last time when they lived at gertie's, yet she had no other choice but to accept gertie's offer and live in the cottage in hampshire.
and later was followed there by her good friend mable...
ellen's got a new friend now (sheila)...oh and there's one more ironic thing...that is in earlier chapters, ellen was pictured as being exasperated by billy's presence while now she has some feelings towards him..(too bad billy doesn't feel the same towards ellen ). he has feelings of affection and obsession towards horses, and that's probably the main reason for him not wanting to go back to london.. oh yes... the story is indeed full of surprises..doug (whom i thought were dead ..actually from the very first chapters i used to think that he were did but each time he would "surprisingly return... just like now...he turned out to be alive just like the old hocasy pocasy lady had foretold ..as usual, hilda and ellen are more than pleased to see doug...
ellen went with sheila to a similar  woman in hampshire and this one told ellen that there would be pain and peace in her life...
ellen got jealous from sheila when she started spending more time with billy than she did with ellen...but later they became friends again (i still don't know what of a friend is sheila to tell ellen about stuff hilda thought ellen was too young to learn!)
ellen  then felt sad that billy had to leave with mable because his father was wounded. billy similarly felt the same, but this wasn't because he won't be able to see ellen, but because he would leave the life he loved most (and the horses)behind. yet as stubborn as he is, he tries hard to convince his parents to let him go back to hampshire...when finally peace spread around as the war was over with Europe's victory, victory, everyone was jolly...doug and ellen but not hilda,were pleased to go back to london... ofcourse ellen would have preferred to stay in hampshire rather than go back to london because hampshire, unlike london, was beautiful, but she longed to see billy once again and thus couldn't wait to get back to london (another irony because when they returned earlier she'd first detested london but now it was ok with her).
as i mentioned earlier, obstinate billy was arguing about going back to hampshire, and now (for ellen's bad luck) he won the argument and left ellen in sorrow.
how weird can this get to be?.. ellen loves billy, billy loves horses and not ellen, billy's brother, percy, loves ellen and not horses hahaha...back to ellen's parents ... doug was suffering from his intolerable back ache and was having a hard time in an effort to hide his agony...hilda is aware of the situation and finally makes up her mind that whether doug liked it or not she is going to find a job and start working because she's probably tired of their adversity and hopes to make things better..
the family's savior , gertie, came back again and after seeing their horrid state, she tries her best to lend them an arm in any possible way...                                                                                       to be continued.....

KITTY NEALE'S_LOST ANGEL-chapter 6-10

hilda and ellen have been in somerset for two years now... it is ellen's twelvth birthday ...she's oficially a grown up now . hilda and gertie give ellen her birthday gifts... one gift appears to be from doug..he had made ellen a wooden cat and sent it to her along with a letter.. hilda is skeptical towards gertie now that gertie started hugging her and so on...
hilda, gertie , and ellen go to the village and hilda gets a cake made by mrs.brandon... they go back home... hilda prepares vegetable soup ..they all sit and eat ..then hilda gets the cake...ellen feels so happy...hilda starts hallucinating, she fears something went wrong with doug ...ellen makes her birthday wish...
 hilda's worries about doug are all gone now that she had finally received a letter from him... she is still having this weird feeling that someone is standing right beside her.. and thus she asks gertie whether she believed in ghosts or not.. the latter told her that it's probably the work of her imagination and that she thought ghosts do not exist (things have to be scientifically proven first in order for her to believe them).doug arrival at gertie's was a surprise longed for and rejuvinated at by both ellen and her mom yet loathed most by gertie..
i can't believe that gertie actually feels jealous from doug.. this woman is sickingly sick!she's most filled with rage especially when she knew that doug would be staying with them for the next three weeks..
doug is still skeptical towards gertie and is constantly worried about hilda and ellen and at one moment he lost his temper ... at that moment gertie realized that she had managed to hide her feelings from hilda but wasn't successfull at doing the same with doug...the three weeks flew by so quick and it was time for doug to leave again ... as usual hilda and her daughter were feeling so sad while gertie couldn't be happier at that moment ... she couldnt' wait for him to leave .. she did her best to get doug to the station on time so that he would not stay a single second longer.. a few days later, both gertie and ellen caught a flu or something and hence had to remain in bed both half awake and hilda nursing both and taking care of the household and the animals... after almost a week of a fluctuating fever and of illness, ellen and gertie are hale while hilda who had been fatigued from all the effort she's done during the past week falls unconscious due to some breathing illness.. lucky enough hilda was taken to the hospital by mrs brandon and there she is taken good care of...
gertie and ellen paid her a visit and the villagers were so nice to the two of them.. they offered them a rabbit pie and some chicken soup and were so gentle with them.. gertie had mistakingly thought that those people were haughty nosy ones but it appears they were all a bunch of caring and loving people.. yet gertie still believes that her isolation mustn't be intrused in any  possible way... at first i thought that the people knew all about gertie and that they loathed her and that that's why she thought they were only after gossip but it appears that they treat her all well while on the other hand she's being supercilius...

examine each pic carefully :)

how many people do you see?

stare at the four dots in the middle for 20 seconds then look at the wall or the ceiling and close your eyes...

KITTY NEALE'S LOST ANGLE-chapter 5

this chapter is sooo long!!! ...hilda and ellen were so happy that doug was there with them. ellen noticed a change in her mom who started taking care of herself and wearing makeup... ellen was so happy but sometimes felt secluded especially when it came to her sleeping with gertie or when her parents would go outside alone... gertie suggests that hilda doug and ellen spend the day together , and indeed they do. while they were away, gertie took the chance and went to the village inorder to sell pinkie the pig for she knew ellen was fond of it and hence wouldn't let them sell it. doug liked the life in the countryside especially aftr he saw how happy ellen were and how she'd become a robust kid. gertie chated doug and doug warned hilda from gertir, now we know why gertie's dad and everyone else disliked her, it's probably because she is a nasty disgusting person and what's weird about her is that she knows that it's abnormal and not right and that she feels guilty about her feelings! she even feels jealous from doug...i think she was mistakingly born into this world as a female! anyway when the ellen and her parents get back home. when ellen learned that pinkie was dead she felt so angry and so sad. later , gertie gave her a surprise in order to compensate for her. she broght ellen a pet cat which ellen named socks. now that two weeks have passed, it was tim for doug to leave again. hilda and ellen were so sad that doug had to leave, while gertie on the other hand was having a hard time hiding her feelings of happiness and satisfaction and pretending to feel sorry.

KITTY NEALE'S LOST ANGLE-chapter 4

five months have passed..ellen's stammer disappeared,and she's now receiving home tutoring by gertie because the nearest school is on the other side of the village....ellen enjoyed her time during the spring and spent hours roaming in the woods.
hilda was glad to see her daughter happy,yet she till hated living in isolation. she kept intouch with mable and was shocked by the news that mable's house was bombed too. mable,lucky enough found hersel a flat in clapham away from the bombing.
hilda misses her husband and is so worried about him because she hadn't heard from him since a very long while...gertie's father was a religious man ; hilda shuddered remembering her childhood fear and awe of that man.
hilda asks gertie to take her t the village to see whether there were any news about doug. at first gertie didn't want to go but then after she saw how earnestly hilda wanted to go ,she agreed to take her. and indeed they took ellen and headed off to the village. as soon as the arrived at the village, hilda rushed into the general store-cum-postoffice, but , unfortunately, the elderly postmistress told her that there was no mail for her .hilda felt so disappointed... she buys so stuff.. chats with mrs. brandon...it seems that gertie doesn't like the local people and hates chatting with them , claiming that they are only after gossip!
when they were about to leave, a strange man on a motor bike ,stopped infront of them, and to their utter surprise, the stranger was no one but the only doug whom hilda was so freakingly worried about and feared were dead.

Japanese Proverb

If one can do it,
u too can do it,
If none can do it,
u must do it.

Arabic Version

If One can do it,
stop him doing it.
If none can do it,
make jokes about it..

BATTERSEA, LONDON

at the beginning of the story we learned that there was war in battersea, london where ellen and her mother had once lived.tracing back to the 1940s we can find that indeed there was a war at that time...the world war 2 in specific.. it's odd actually that i started thinking that may be this is a true story...and perhaps neale wrote about sth related to her life or the story of someone close to her...or maybe even the story is partly about kitty herself!

BBC website has some info about world war 2... which also included the bombardments on battersea (ellen's hometown)..and it also includes some info about the child evacuation (earlier mentioned in the story by hilda)...plus...some personal experiences of the survivors of the war

if by any chance u wish to read more..check out bbc:http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/02/a2065402.shtml

or :http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/categories/c1162/

kitty neale is still alive...but she's an old bird now:

sooo i think that she was there during the ww2... or i dunno..it just came to my mind...i searched for her birth year..nut i found nothing!

what DO YOU THINK?

LOST ANGEL......the cover looks nice...I admit it :)

Kitty Neale

They took me to jail because of this woman....I intentionally murdered her (jk)..but I am  really thinking of doing so :1 could'nt she write sth funny or mysterious ...I honestly prefer Edgar Allan Poe and his red death thingy!

no more summaries!!!

midterms are this close to us <we>...<midterms>
mathematically it means:
 (midterms X lots of stuff to study) + (5 projects) - (time) = (sad students with failing grades that are no  good for getting into a university)!
and going back to common sense ...and some math...:
no grades = no university
no university = no job
no job = no money
no money = not affording to buy anything (no shelter- no food - no car - no nothing!)
not affording stuff = becoming hobos and begging for our next meal
becoming hobos = staying at ur door steps
and then we get famished ...we die....we become a once upon a time...
our dreams become rotten meat and raisins ...and evaporate...the become deferred bitter syrup..something
so in the end I, TOO  want to go to university and remove all the NOs from the equations.
ps: i don't really have time to listen to blues or jazz ...so i'll probably stick to the sounds of blames that r to come after the mids
THE POINT IS : INSTEAD OF WRITING A REALLY LONG SUMMARY...I WILL READ ..POST SOMETHING ...ANYTHING...ABOUT THE AUTHOR THE STORY...A QUESTION THAT COMES TO MY MIND WHILE READING THE 17 CHAPTERS... that's it :) :D
oh and ms shabana...wish us good luck...and enjoy ur 1 week vacation <3

KITTY NEALE'S_ LOST ANGELS_ chapter 3

hilda and ellen went to somerset. upon their arrival at the platform , they saw gertie awaiting their arrival (ellen was amazed to see gertie's outfit...especially her trousers..it seemed as though women didn't wear trousers during the 1940s...weird!) . it's been a really long time since hilda last seen gertie or even talked to her. ellen turned into a 10 year old kid...gertie's horse and carriage were novel to the kid...she'd never been on a horse and cart before . so ellen and her mom got into gertie's "car",left the small town, and headed off to gertie's house. ellen sat there quietly listening in on the conversation between hilda and gertie ...(who's susan...what's wrong with gertie....and why is she loathed by most of the people who know her?  including her dad?! "lick my wounds in private"??!!and she says she loves the seclusion!)...seems like gertie lived alone for her mother had long passed away and her father was in london, probably...(what did gertie's father find out? why is he mad at gertie?). ok! so hilda and gertie have known each other for a really long time .(since the were both about 8 years old). hilda's mom used to work as a domestic in the forbes' house. at that time the 2 weren't close friends..they were barely acquaintances.( seems to me like gertie is a sort of disturbed person : her mom died , she loved her mom and hated the fact that she passed away, after her mom's death ,she was sent off to a bording school..when she returned home ,her father ignored her...and when she was about 12 years old, she was expelled from school for misbehaving, she was soo lonely with no company....).so after that...hilda's mom started taking hilda to gertie's each time she went there herself, and that's how the 2 knew each other. hilda confesses that she'd always thought of gertie as being a person from the upper class who sounded posh..gertie's father was a religious man...(again gertie is saying that she envies hilda's family, and that her life was so resricted and thus seemed like a prison!!..."unlike everyone else you did not judge me or ostracise me"!! "i was treated like a monster, a bad influence and unsafe around children"!...there's definitely something wrong with this woman!...). the three finally reached their destination ..one can learn that gertie's house was in the middle of nowhere. gertie's house was actually a small cottage in a muddy area...seems like gertie had some company at home ,bertie the dog, a cat , 2 pigs the horse, and a goat..... gertie's house had no electricity it was sort of primitive and crude...in reality, the place wasn't much ,yet staying in it meant alot to hilda...a cosy peaceful place to spend the night in, away from the fear and terror of the raids and bombardments.
that's it for ch 3 but i still think there is sth fstrange about gertie

KITTY NEALE'S_ LOST ANGELS_ chapter 2

ok...sooo... the war didn't stop. more houses torn down and more booms of explosives. each time the bombardment raid was executed , hilda, ellen, and mable fled to mable's air raid shelter. hilda was still waiting to hear from gertie , becaue at that moment, she was concerned about ellen's safety more than ever for all she had left was the little child. she was looking up to a rehousing (finding a new accommodation), but wasn't successful enough because it seems like she wasn't the only one "sans house", thus, she had to wait with the employees words sinking in her mind...she thought that , perhaps, it would really  be a good idea for her to go with her daughter to gertie's justn as the woman had suggested earlier. disappointed by the failure of her mission of being rehoused, hilda went back to mable's. both hilda and mable feared that the place they stayed in (mable's house) would , someday, be hit ,too. neither of them wanted to be homeless...then the two of them sat down discussing the issue of evacuating young ellen...and whether it were a good idea to send the girl to gertie's in particular, or not . mable then feels so depressed ,her eyes filled with tears after hearing that hilda were to leave too. mable felt so sad because both her husband and her kids have long been away...and now, her friend hilda was  thinking of going to somerset and leaving her behind.
with the air raid siren suddenly wailing, the 2 women jumped to their feet and headed hurriedly to the shelter. hilda was so worried about her daughter for she was at school (away from hilda at that moment). after half an hour of tension , the all-clear sounded ,and the two of them headed back home and there they had some tea. hilda had a plenty on her mind ..her parents, daughter, gertie and somerset,and a lot more...an hour later ellen came back from school to relieve hilda's worrying and was carrying a letter from school. the letter's content (the closing of the school by the end of the month) sealed hilda's decision to get ellen away from there. hilda felt so sad for she had to leave london and her friends there , especially mable ,yet she made up her mind to leave because she knew it was for their own sake and that her daughter would be safer at somerset .....

end of ch.2

KITTY NEALE'S_ LOST ANGELS_chapter 1

sooo..... neal's novel is set during the 1940s, in battersea, south of london...a setting of utter chaos due to the devastations brought about by the deleterious war and its cantankerous weapons and bombardments. the protagonist, a nine-year-old girl named ellen, who lived with her mom hilda, woke up one day on thundering sound of the bombardments which blazed its way through her ears. thus, she,along with her mom, took refuge in the anderson shelter .there, ellen clearly told her mom about how scared she was, so her mom thought that , perhaps ,ellen would be safer if she were sent away from london, but the mom was hesitant and reluctant to do so because she didn't fancy the idea of sending her daughter off to some strangers, and thought of an old friend of her's ,gertie, as an alternate to those strangers. meantime, the city outside the shelter was a fiesta of fire works ,and was blazing with flames and burning down into ashes. the two sat there for ours, their ears deafened from the loud booms. finally, they heard the all-clear tone from the siren, and so with it they abandoned the shelter. shocked by the sight that beheld the city infront of them, the two stood paralysed, their feet stuck firmly to the ground. it was such a horrid sight. all of the houses, including theirs , were violently destroyed and crushed into rubble. on that day, hilda lost something more precious than any house...she lost her parents and thus had nothing left. she became a single parent with all her belongings gone with the wind , and with nothing left but for a naive , innocent child who left a bit of hope for the rest of hilda's life, and a chain with a crucifex that belonged to her mom . hilda's friend, mabel, welcomed the two in her house which was outside the bombed area. so...... ellen and her mom were still grieving and feeling all alone...                                                                                                         to be continued.......
:"( all of this was just one chapter ....there are still 54 more to go! :"""""""(