Just discovered: My great-uncle Duncan Blenkiron was a Lieutenant in the 18th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment that fought in WW1 at the Somme. On 29 Jan 1916 he was captured at Frise near Vaux in France and was a POW till October 2018. #genealogy

My Great-Uncle Alfred Victor "Tony" Blenkiron was an ace pilot in WW1. But he also got into all sorts of trouble. At 23, after the war was over, he took his own life. Here is his Wikitree profile: www.wikitree.com/index.php?ti... #familyhistory #genealogy

Just sold this one. It's titled "Katholiko". Going to a home in Switzerland. #art #painting #acrylic

I've been working on my grandfather's story and created a Wikitree profile. Served in two World Wars, worked for Burmah Shell in India and for the oil branch of the Foreign Office in Germany. Not my favourite relative... www.wikitree.com/wiki/Blenkir... #genealogy

Sunrise over Mani - Ανατολή πάνω από τη Μάνη - acrylic on canvas, 20x20 cm. #art #painting #messinia

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"It's always been quite hard to know - to pinpoint, let's say - where one's unique story really begins. Does it really start at the moment of birth, or wit those that came before? Instilling, distilling, in one's veins the lived life, the unloved life, the regrets, the joys...

Sold this and one other similar small painting (20x20 cm) yesterday, so I am feeling rather encouraged. I love it when my paintings go to good homes and are appreciated. #art #acrylic #canvas #gecko

Die Vorbereitungen für das IPPNW-Studierendentreffen dieses Wochenende in #Berlin laufen auf Hochtouren! Themen sind u.a.: Militarisierung des Gesundheitswesens • Medical Peace Work • Ein neuer nuklearer Rüstungswettlauf. Was machen wir jetzt? www.ippnw.de/der-verein/s... #Frieden #Gesundheit

Douglas Fell was a civil servant in India after studying at Oxford. He belongs to my family's FAN, as he “gave away” my mother at my parents’ wedding. My maternal grandparents were divorcing at the time and it was impossible to agree on who to invite. #genealogy #fan #familyhistory

After painting a gourd (not finished) I used the left-over acrylic paint on a small 20x20 cm canvas and this little picture emerged. Sometimes the fast ones are best. #art #painting #koroni

Walter and Marion were two special people. Last week they both died. Two very different experiences. Both important to me. open.substack.com/pub/xanthh/p...

Rüstungskontrolle statt nuklearer Macho-Rhetorik! Die IPPNW verurteilt die Ankündigung neuer Atomtests durch US-Präsident Donald #Trump. Sie fordert die Bundesregierung auf, diese Äußerung scharf zu kritisieren: www.ippnw.de/presse/artik... #Atomtest #nuclearban

I reached my reading goal for 2025 this year with Donal Ryan's brilliant and prize-winning book "Heart, Be at Peace". Next year the goal will be higher. 💚📚

We need to wake up fast, as the world careers towards disaster. We should look at how much energy increase the use of AI is causing. And: we need to cut back on military energy consumption. Here in Greece renewables are surging but NATO fighter jets flying constantly overhead 🙄

I think I'm in a blue phase. #artwork #painting #artstudio

Kalamata, today. #streetphotography #kalamata #greece

If you've been following my father's story: part 3 is out at last. After an extended break caused by illness and laptop breakdown, I've finally finished. I am the 3rd daughter of a philosopher and nurse/artist, and this is a family history series of essays about my parents. #familyhistory #genealogy

Für eine Welt ohne Atomwaffen! Beschäftigte aus dem Gesundheitswesen haben am IPPNW-Weltkongress in Nagasaki teilgenommen. In einer gemeinsamen Erklärung betonten sie die wichtige Rolle des UN-Atomwaffenverbots. Fotos aus Nagasaki findet Ihr hier: flickr.com/photos/ippnw/albums/72177720329439543/

Can anyone read what is written in the margin of this marriage record for Paul Friedrich Bernhard Christian-Kraft Freiherr von Tauchnitz andFreja Hedwig Anna Nyrén of Hälsingfors? #familyhistory #genealogy

Über 1.500 Gesundheitskräfte hat das israelische Militär in #Gaza getötet. Die Menschen dort brauchen jetzt humanitäre Hilfe! Angehörige des Gesundheitswesens haben gestern in Berlin gemeinsam demonstriert. Mehr Fotos: www.flickr.com/photos/ippnw... #notatarget #alleyesongaza #b2709

The second part of my father's story is out! The family moves to Yorkshire and he has to deal with a delinquent teenager (me) open.substack.com/pub/xanthh/p... #genealogy #familyhistory

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Remember your humanity and forget the rest! #nuclearban

Yesterday's fast and furious sketch "on loco" with the Koroni Art Group in Agios Andreas. Using Cadarache water colour crayons and a piece of wet cloth, on paper, A5. #sketching #artwork

Part one of a series of Substack posts about my parents, this story is not easy to tell. Daughter of a philosopher and a nurse/painter, my parents and their families were complex. #genealogy #familyhistory

Big demo #AllEyesonGaza in Berlin on Saturday. Demo starts 14.30 at Alexanderplatz, rally from 17.00. with Rapper Pashanim.

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Am Samstag, 27. 9. gehen wir in Berlin gemeinsam auf die Straße. Gegen den Genozid in #Gaza und die sogenannte Staatsräson, die diesen militärisch, finanziell und diplomatisch unterstützt. Bitte kommt zahlreich zu dieser künstlerischen Solidaritätskundgebung! all-eyes-on-gaza.de #alleyesongaza

Painting by Sylvia Ken, Indigenous artist from the Amata community in South Australia, relates to the Seven Sisters creation story #WomensArt

This house is for sale. But would you buy it? #Koroni #Messinia #streetphotography

Militarism and the Climate Crisis: From Baku to Belém. A feminist call for demilitarisation in the UN climate process | How does militarism drive the climate crisis, and why is it ignored in UN climate talks? Friday, 19 Sept, 2pm UTC Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Unterstützt die Aktion morgen! Mehrere europäische Staaten erwägen den Austritt aus der Antipersonenminen-Konvention! #Antipersonenminen wurden verboten, weil sie bis zu 80 % Zivilist*innen töten oder schwer verletzen – auch Jahrzehnte nach Ende von Kampfhandlungen.

Colour-coded fire alarms behind old C&A building (CANK) in Neukölln #Berlin #streetphotography

Sunset through the Elsenbrücke. #Berlin #streetphotography

My mother, Daphne Hall nee Blenkiron, finally has a profile on Wikitree! Difficult to separate the fiction from the facts, this remains a work-in-progress. I will try to write the full (and deeply painful) story soon... www.wikitree.com/index.php?ti... #genealogy #familyhistory

My latest story is up on Substack. Inspired by the story of a friend's mother who lived through the war in Germany. It is rather sad, but then so are most of the stories of that generation. #substack #shortstory #warstory #familyhistory xfactored.substack.com/p/the-poppy-...

Beschäftigte im #Gesundheitswesen: Jetzt unterzeichnen! Erklärung für ein ziviles Gesundheitswesen. Gegen die #Militarisierung: ippnw.de/bit/unterzeichnen

Kliniken im Kriegsfall: „Zivilbevölkerung soll sich verstärkt selbst helfen“. Interview mit Dr. med. Angelika Claußen, IPPNW in der Berliner Zeitung:

At last finished writing up my father's biography on Wikitree. I am so lucky that he wrote several pages of autobiographical notes for his 80th birthday speech, so I'm reasonably sure of all the facts. Philosopher, lexicographer, member of Mensa - my Dad was a real brainbox! #genealogy

Mi, 1. Oktober, online | Der russische Angriff auf die Ukraine hat einen bislang einmaligen #Drohnenkrieg entfesselt. Matthias Monroy spricht über aktuelle Entwicklungen bei bewaffneten Drohnen. Anmeldung hier 👉 ippnw.de/bit/akp @matthimon | Veranstaltet von: AK Drohnen

It all starts with Bartram Blenkhorne. My long line of Blenkirons stops there at a brick wall. I think his father is called Thomas and that he lived in Patrington, but I have no actual evidence. How did Bartram end up in Marrick in Swaledale?

My family tree on Ancestry is private because there's a lot of unverified stuff on there. I've been going through and adding the sources and marking what is only a working hypothesis. When a person is sourced, I've begun transferring the info to Wikitree...

I went to the local library yesterday to further my research on my Puschkinallee OPS, and I found a book on opposition to the Nazis from 1933 to 1945 in Treptow and Köpenick. Nothing about our house or the people in it, but I found out who Karl Kunger was. #OPSWednesday

Giving birth is all about numbers. If you are able to count, you can keep track. The politics of when and how to give birth surprised me, they gave no pre-natal advice on how to deal with hospital staff, or even how to be listened to. #writingcommunity

After years of humming and hawing, I have at last started on my One-Place-Study of Marrick in Swaledale, North Yorkshire. It is one of two places in my family tree where literally hundreds of my relatives lived, most of whom were Blenkirons. #OnePlaceWednesday #genealogy

I sent the In-Depth Report on Puschkinallee 5, so it should be up on the Society's page soon. But the Wikitree page covers much the same ground. Been researching the local historical context and hope to write some more in the near future, as well as researching more families. #OnePlaceWednesday

Heute vor 80 Jahren, am 6. August 1945, zerstörten die USA die japanische Stadt #Hiroshima mit einer Atombombe. Etwa 140.000 Menschen starben bis Ende des Jahres 1945. Viele überlebten schwer verletzt oder leiden bis heute an den Spätfolgen. #Hiroshima80 #Nagasaki80 #nuclearban

Nach den Atomwaffen-Abwürfen ging schwarzer, schmieriger Regen auf Hiroshima und Nagasaki nieder. Viele Menschen schluckten die Regentropfen, um ihren Durst zu löschen. Kurz danach wurden sie strahlenkrank. Mehr Infos auf "Atomwaffen A-Z": atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/begr... #Hiroshima80 #Nagasaki80

Setsuko Thurlow war 13 Jahre alt, als die USA am 6. August 1945 die erste Atombombe auf ihre Heimatstadt #Hiroshima abwarfen. Sie war 1,8 km vom Hypozentrum entfernt und überlebte. Hier ist ihre Geschichte: atomwaffena-z.info/glossar/begr... #80Jahre #Atombombenfolgen

I wrote about Dr. Sasaki for the online German lexicon "Atomwaffen A-Z". He worked tirelessly as one of the only doctors alive to treat patients in the Hiroshima Red Cross hospital after the US bombed the city with a nuclear weapon, 80 years ago.