Lian Renaud 31/01/2026 Lian Renaud 31/01/2026

Let It Snow And Failing Communications

The weather has been terrible, too much snow, ice, wind and rain, plus cold, and disasters.
Communications in many parts of the world went down.
To top it all, my phone was spoofed. Someone was using my number.
I was waiting for an important phone call. It didn’t come.
Yesterday I thought I would make contact, but my phone didn't ring out.
Luckily, I have two phones, so I rang my friend. He said he had rung my number and a man had answered????!!!! No men in my house, so I was shocked. So I rang my own number, and a man answered,
I went to my server, they thought I was crazy, they rang me, and my phone rang. So they thought I must be a bit crazy.
I went home and spent over an hour negotiating for a new number and compensation. I went to the cemtral outlet in yellow warning weather, torrential rain and high winds.
They didn’t believe me, but negotiation realized a new number and some compensation. Customer care considered ‘spoofing’ someone’s phone unusual and opened an investigation.
Then my internet went down, still have difficulties loading disqus. The weather was readily blamed as a culprit.
Internet still presenting difficulties.

Its raining fish, (and chips in Eastbourne)!

Patrick Watson - Love Songs For Robots

Styx - Mr. Roboto

Would you really prefer a relationship with a robot rather than a human?
Could either malfunction? LOL

We’ve come a long way since the cat’s whisker
So why does technology appear to go so wrong?

Do you still listen to the radio?

The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone

Lady GaGa - Telephone

Post images, gifs, music, chat with friends and enjoy.
We had buildings collapse in torrential rain. Waves sixteen ft high, a little girl fell into the sea and drowned.
No politics or religion, please.

Lian and Kieran

Lian Renaud 24/01/2026 Lian Renaud 24/01/2026

One By One

We can change the world, one by one. I never used to imagine we could, but we can.
I was lucky enough to work for two women who made a huge difference for many people.
One was Xenia Dennen and the other Zena Daysh.
Recently, I met another lady at a bus stop who was up against the establishment. She displayed immense courage. Her son was killed on a building site. He was delivering a message, and the shell of a three-story building fell on him. The builders denied responsibility, but it turned out they lacked building permits. The establishment was against her, as the land had been sold illegally.
Her son was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was nominated as a brave woman who fought for justice over her son’s death. She is a new friend, and her journey continues.

I met Xenia going for a job interview, and got the job of looking after her two young boys. She was like an angel, always calm and serene. It was one of the happiest periods of my life. Little did I imagine Xenia was the Bette Noire of the KGB? She married the Rev. Lyle Dennen, who was an American from Joy Street, Boston. She set up a bureaux in Moscow, investhating ethnic minorities in Russia who were persecuted or disappeared. She travelled from west to east across Russia alone, interviewing people and visiting work camps. Documents were smuggled out of Russia during so called Perestroyka of people who were persecuted or disappeared. She was banned from entering Russia for some years.
The other lady I worked for was Zena Daysh, a Firey whirlwind of energy. I worked for her, and although there was a huge age gap, we became best friends and family, working and holidaying together.
She was the first person to start an Ecology movement in the world.
I learned a lot from both ladies.

Below, Xenia, wearing my old second-hand fur coat, which she mentions in her lecture during her travel with the Rev Bordeaux. She became chairwoman of Keston.

Commonwealth Human Ecology Council, Zena, 1914-2011, working till 2011, aged 97, for World Peace.
She was a tough cookie, but lots of fun!

I read a book called One by One, where one person took on the world in a peaceful manner to bring about change.

Who are your heroes, heroines? Have you fought for justice? Perhaps you have a story or know someone who fought for justice?
I have a few heroes on LFE too, but that’s my secret. Everyone has a special quality.
Post memes, gifs, music about your personal heroes. What qualities did your hero have, and what battles?
Chat and enjoy the discussion.

Lian and Kieran

Enrique Iglesias - Hero

David Bowie - "Heroes"

The KGB's Bête Noire - Xenia Dennen

Willie Nelson - My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

Lian Renaud 17/01/2026 Lian Renaud 17/01/2026

Fits Like A Glove

The idea is: to make a song fit an image

Make an image fit a song.

Therefore, post images, music, and chat.

Or you may post an image or a song for another poster to contemplate.

The weather is setting records and will continue to do so; this is climate change. I never really believed it when it was first discussed, but the weather has set records in recent years.

This was a disaster for many of us, sometimes avoided, luckily for most, but not for my boat,t which became stuck with water running dry, for the first time in history and then iced in this winter.