#they were close to being signed by a record company but robbie

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Gender & Pronouns: Demigirl, she/they

Date of Birth: July 28th, 1990 (30)

Place of Birth: Catalina Island, California

Neighborhood: Avalon

Length of Residency: Native

Occupation: Owner of Essence of Petra and Former Reality TV Star 

Face Claim: Margot Robbie

BIOGRAPHY

TRIGGERS: Car Accident.

It’s always been acknowledged that every person is different from the next. Many people study the virtual calendar on their iPhone, patiently waiting for the workday to be over because it’s one day closer to the weekend. Two days out of the five-day workweek, where people rest themselves or use these two days to socialize only to regret they didn’t get enough rest. Though, when someone wakes up each morning, it’s someone’s birthday erupting from the vast locations across the planet. Some people care, other people don’t, but when you put Cleo Halliwell into the equation, what’s supposed to be a single-day celebration on July 28th, has become the hottest ticket for anyone to get their hands on in Catalina.

Although, instead of jumping ahead into the festivities of Cleo and her need to be the center of attention regardless of the circumstances, the backstory of Arthur and Evelyn Halliwell’s eldest daughter has to start somewhere. Ideally, the day of July 28th, 1989, is when her beloved mother endured twenty-six-hour labor to see the sight of their newborn quiet as a mouse and sucking on her thumb. It’s the first and only time when silence overpowered Cleo ─ even when her head lay upon wicked Evelyn’s chest. It’s far from a warning sign for the new parents over how kind of havoc they’re going to receive from their daughter. Though, as the years went on, everyone close to the platinum-locked girl sat on the edge of their seats, rarely having a moment of silence to relax, as they needed to keep their attention in complete focus for the unknown that could plenty come from her behalf.

Her constant push and pull infuriated Evelyn for years. Others would react out to seek attention from their loved ones. For her, the reason for acting out was because the adrenaline consuming her couldn’t be thrashed elsewhere. She loved breaking the norms that society placed on women, specifically in prominent positions due to their families. She didn’t care if she came home with bruises on her knees from all of the tumbles from the jungle gym or for sliding on the grass to the nearest base for the impromptu baseball game. This is everything she loved. Of course, for her mother, Evelyn’s endless scorns at her daughter felt as if she’s boomed and is failing what’s supposed to be the matriarch of her jewelry company. After all, your firstborn inherits the responsibilities when the parents pass on, especially when you have a family business.

However, as the young girl kept growing and finding new ways to evolve herself, one happens to be the sudden interest in ballet. A glimmer of hope flickered in the matriarch’s colored optics. If it hadn’t been for the spontaneous work trip Arthur took for his wife’s company and constant pleading from his younger daughter, she would’ve never laid eyes on the holiday performance of Nutcracker performed by the New York City Ballet. It had been love at first sight before any other life experiences could come to her. It’s all the bright and wide-eyed six years old Cleo could talk about on the car ride from the performance to the hotel, then for the proceeding days. It got to the point where their words began to exhaust their father, who retorted to occasional hm’s, and that’s nice remarks. Yet, his minimal words meant he’s listening, and because of his open-ears, the father-daughter pairing returned from their New York trip; Arthur made sure to inform his wife about Cleo’s dreams.

So, as the young girl went to bed that evening, she’d be woken up in the morning to their mother, pre-plastic surgery, standing over the bed with fabulous news. Her mother hired Tamara Rojo, an artistic director of the English National Ballet and the lead principal dancer. A collection of known performances and awards proving her ability and impact in the industry did not go overlooked. Because of Tamara’s praise, it led to Evelyn Halliwell getting the best for her daughter ─ even if it meant coming off as menacing.

The dynamic between both Cleo and Tamara flourished gracefully and instantly. The teacher stimulated the young dancer early to achieve every one of her goals without a second thought. Any form of doubt was quickly overturned with guidance, even with ways to encourage the young girl while hearing her feelings before pushing her through the three hours of practice. However, the further Tamara made her feel appreciated. Even from when Cleo was young, her mother would be hands-off and only show interest when it benefited it. It took her years to start seeing the former principal as a monumental figure. Tamara became a pseudo mother that she longed for and knew would never change her, as Evelyn tried all too frequently.

And the motherly connection Cleo established with Tamara would only prosper over the years. If it hadn’t been for Tamara, the continuous encouragement, and signing up the young ballerina for competitions, she’d remain a nobody from the isle of Catalina Island. If it hadn’t been for her teacher, she wouldn’t have received a letter from the American Ballet Theatre with a position to join the company after her high school graduation. It was a dream come true and something she had worked feverishly, yet tiredly toward, from the moment she took the spontaneous New York City trip with her father. Now it was paying off, and nothing could crush their dreams.

That’s until she ended up in a car accident in November of her senior year, dating a month after learning about her position at the American Ballet Theatre. The accident was gruesome to Cleo because the impact was direct into the passenger’s side. Luckily for their seatbelt, it saved her because had the circumstances been different, the aging individuals’ life would’ve ended then and there due to the intensity. Though, there’s more harm that consumed her trained body and ended their dream of being a principal dancer ─ a ruptured disc.

Doctors told them that surgeries could adjust the damages to a point where she’ll function without laborious complaints, but it will never be the same. After all, medicine doesn’t work that way. Once the car accident happened, the damage had been created. Minimization is ideally the best solution, but none will receive one hundred percent capability. Maybe ninety percent, so it’s loose in the possibilities, but the young girl would notice the difference immediately. If she wanted to dance, which wasn’t recommended by their doctors, the future would be gruesome and full of distress, as the only way to minimize the feeling would be through chiropractors and massage therapists. But they needed to lay it out flat for the young girl to avoid her doing anything reckless ─ considering since reckless, and testing any sort of authority, is their middle name. So, as challenging as the news turned out to be, Cleo had to move on. Whether she liked it, and the latter she did not, this is the new normal for them.

Astonishingly three months later, Gwendolyn Prescott and Cleo jokingly signed up for a local talent show. Little did the girls know what would outcome they’d receive. The decision had been a spur of the moment and a chance for them to do something irregular on a Friday evening rather than purposefully causing havoc that would end send their parents to early burials. The then-blondes went out on stage in a head-to-toe black attire and sang an original piece ─ Potential Breakup Song, described as how things unfolded between this suitor and one of the girls. Neither one of the pairs knew, let alone were aware, the head of the record label Hollywood Studios happened to be in the crowd since their niece coincidentally signed up for the show.

Something that unfolded on a whim led to an introduction and an eventual album deal to test the waters of their popularity before going any further. This offer alone came without any rejections as both sets of parents encouraged this opportunity. Dealing with a single topping the charts, handling a private life while attending school, and recording an album at seventeen showed them the first signs of adulthood. It had been fun. It also tested their patience, capability, along with a glimpse of what potential endeavors may endure. Many opportunities could’ve happened but, there was always an underlying factor ─ university.

After the release of Into The Rush, the only album Cleo and Gwen put out as a duo, the best friends agreed to fulfill their utmost potential by completing their tertiary education. Gwen booking a one-way ticket to New York while Cleo loaded up their newly purchased BMW X5 and made the trip to the University of Berkeley as the young soul got accepted into the school’s business program. Little did Cleo know, the single album release would land the second eldest Halliwell as the face and the protagonist of a reality series called Saint Catalina upon their return to the isle once the freshmen semester was completed.

The reality series carried on for four years as it set forth the future path for Cleo’s career once graduating from Berkeley. Not only did it bring opportunities such as an active perfume line, Cleodora, but side modeling bookings throughout the years to build their resume. It’s strange to imagine that once, in a blue moon, she thought ballet would be their break to stardom. But with improvisation, good luck, and a straightforward personality that captivated viewers’ attention, the path forward for the blonde is promising. Just when you think you’ve had enough of Cleo Halliwell, she comes back swinging ─ literally.

PERSONALITY

Positive: Straightforward | Logical | Entertaining

Negative: Imperious | Sardonic | Puerile

Cleo Halliwell is portrayed by Steph.

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I'm curious to know what your headcanons are for Robbie's relationships with Anti and Marvin and the other egos! 80c (And don't feel bad! We're here to support you, muy dude! 💜) -Asri

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Sorry in advance for all spelling mistakes, I'm using my SmallLaptop Irwin rn who for some dang reason only has US spellcheck and Idon't fuck with that

(Also, this got long bc there's so many egos that I had ideasfor.....heck.)

Anti p much adopted Robbie as his baby brother like right away(and Marvin teased him about "collecting brothers" but Antitold him to fuck off. He will collect a hundred brothers if he wantsto. All the borthers. Let him have them.) and he's really protectiveof him. But amongst many other things, he's loud, still doesn't fullyunderstand his own strength and expresses affection through physicalcontact a lot, and that's all something that on most days Robbiedoesn't really want any of. So it took them a bit of work to beProper Good Siblings but they got there and they're really close now.Anti doesn't have the patience to teach Robbie stuff but they hangout and play a lot, and Anti likes getting Robbie cool gifts (likehis chewy necklace and a couple other stim toys). He's also veryproud of Robbie no matter what he does. Robbie calls him Annie.

In my verse, Marvin isn't the reason Robbie exists, but he stilllikes him a lot. Robbie is absolutely fascinated with magic andMarvin is more than happy to entertain him. He also likes setting uppuzzles and games for Robbie that they can do together and bond over,and he was the one who got Robbie legos to help him with his finemotor skills. When he's hurt/scared/needs help, Marvin is one of thepeople Robbie usually runs to (Anti being the other), and Marvin willdrop pretty much anything to help him. Marvin also knows decent firstaid, how to treat/stitch up wounds and a bit of basic healing magic,so he can fix Robbie up if he happens to lose a limb or two. Also,Marvin likes to draw and sometimes he'll just do that while Robbiesits next to him working on a colouring book of his own. Robbie callshim Marr (previously Ma, but Marvin very quickly denied that).

At first Jackie didn't know what to make of Robbie bc all he knewwas that he's a zombie, so Jackie was scared he would be a danger tohis family. When it turned out that Robbie is just an uncoordinatedsweetheart, he instantly grew on him. He's one of the two people whousually cook for Robbie (he doesn't need to eat, but he likes to),and just like Marvin, he knows how to fix him up too. Robbie looks upto him, both bc he's tall and strong and bc he's a hero, and Jackieis a big softie who's convinced he doesn't deserve that adoration.Robbie is very much aware of what's between Jackie and Marvin, and sowhen Marvin is sad and Robbie doesn't know how to help him, he'llfind Jackie and drag him over by the hand, all the while repeating"Marr sad, hel' Marr, love Marr". Robbie calls him Jee (heshortened Jackie into just one syllable).

Chase and Robbie get along well, though they don't hang out thatmuch bc Chase is busy with his own life and kids, but Robbie is likea kid in a lot of ways and Chase has undeniable experience on thatfront. He loves playing with Robbie or telling him stories or singingto him (Robbie can't sing but he hums along enthusiastically), and hedefinitely has a drawing or two from him on his fridge. He's also theother person who will cook for Robbie sometimes. Robbie has only metChase's kids a couple times before for everyone's good, bc Robbiedoesn't really know his own strength and gets startled easily bystuff no one really sees coming. He's also usually the one to fix upany tears in Robbie's clothes (if not him then Marvin). Robbie justcalls him Chase, tho sometimes he'll try to call him "bro"and get stuck on making "brr" noises bc it's amusing.

Schneep enjoys Robbie's company bc he can be surprisingly tame andquiet. Their friendship started with just Schneep fixing Robbie upevery time he got hurt and Jackie or Marvin couldn't help, and Robbiestarted liking him bc he would always give him sweets or stickers andwould always be very gentle with him. Now Robbie will sometimes justsit in Schneep's office while Schneep is working on his own things,colouring or drawing or building stuff, or maybe practising signing.Schneep likes having him around bc he's good company who doesn't makemuch noise or demand his attention a lot. Sometimes Robbie will reachover and pat him on the head though bc while he doesn't exactly likephysical contact, he's learned from Anti that patting ppl on the headis a Good Thing to show that you Love Them, and Schneep always smilesat him sweetly when he does that. Robbie calls him Schneep, Sheep orHen (from Henrik).

Robbie's relationship with Shawn Flynn didn't exactly startsmooth. To be precise, it started with Robbie knocking stuff over inShawn's workshop and wanting to adopt every plushie he saw. Robbiestill feels bad about it. Shawn knows he doesn't have the patience orcapacity to handle Robbie for long, but he tries to visit him asoften as he can and bring him little gifts to show that he's not mad.Robbie usually gives him little drawings in return, and don't tellanyone, but Shawn keeps all of them tucked away in a separate drawer.Robbie calls him Finn (most egos call him Flynn, bc Shawn sounds thesame as Seán).

Most things Dark knows about Robbie he knows from Anti. Theyreally don't hang out much. Dark knows he wouldn't be able to put upwith Robbie for long, and if this were the old Dark, he'd just takehis frustration out on Robbie and enjoy making him cry. But thisisn't the old asshole Dark, so he mostly just avoids Robbie until heknows how to handle him. But just like even if you don't like kidsyou should never be mean to them, Dark is never mean to Robbie ifRobbie approaches him. He usually just smiles, says something nice inresponse to whatever Robbie has just told him and moves on with hisday. Robbie finds him very cool and mysterious, and the other egosfind it amusing, but he thinks Dark is a very pleasant person, he'sjust quiet. He also understands that Anti loves him very much. Heusually approaches Dark to give him flowers, because he sees Darkwalking around with a lapel flower sometimes and deduced that okay,he must like flowers then. Robbie calls him Dark or Darr.

Wilford is not allowed around Robbie bc he keeps trying to get himinto dangerous shit. Robbie kind of likes him, kind of doesn't, bcWilford gives him candy, smells nice and is Very Interesting, buthe's also a sensory overload on two legs. He recognises now whenWilford is trying to talk him into something reckless that the restof the egos wouldn't approve of, and his Perfect Response to it issticking his tongue out at Wilford. No one knows where he got thatfrom, but it's absolutely hilarious to watch. Robbie calls him Willor Wilf.

Host very openly calls Robbie his friend, and everyone wassurprised the first time he did that. Most of Host's projects aredark and lonely, except for when he's working on teaching Robbie signlanguage with Oliver. Without actively trying, Robbie can cheer himup or just make his day a little better, even if it sometimesinvolves sticking band-aids onto Host's face when his eyes arebleeding really badly. Robbie sometimes brings him flowers to cheerhim up (he probably gets his love for flowers from Jackie'sinfluence) and Host keeps them on his desk in his recording studio.Robbie calls him Host or Hosh.

Bing adores kids and so he adores Robbie too. If Robbie is doingsomething noisy and just...all over the place, chances are Bing isinvolved. He'll never do super dangerous stuff with him likeskateboarding, but he's definitely guilty of introducing Robbie tothe magic that is water balloons. Bing sees Robbie as a little cousinwho isn't entirely human just like him. Robbie used to just call himBing, but once he called him Bee and Bing laughed at it, so now heonly calls him Bee.

Google Red, Green and Blue don't really care about Robbie, butOliver finds him adorable and unlike the other three, gives him thecredit he deserves for his intelligence. Oliver teaches Robbie signlanguage along with Host, so he spends a lot of time with him whenhe's not working. Outside of lessons they don't get to hang out a lotbc Oliver is busy working with his brothers, but he'll never shooRobbie away when he approaches him (and once the other egos startmoving out, they do start spending more time together). Robbie usedto see Oliver as some sort of teacher, but when he said it Oliverwent "wait i thought we were friends?" and Robbie gotreally happy about that, so now they have a closefriendship/brotherly bond. Robbie calls the Googles collectively Googor Googly, Red and Blue just that, Green Gree or G'ee, and OliverOli.

Bonus for relationships I don't have worked out but love Robbie'snames for: Angus is Ann, Jameson is Jame' or Pal (bc Shawn callsJameson "pal" a lot and Robbie has come to associate itwith him), Dr Iplier is Iiiiipp and Robin is Ro or Robbrr'n.

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Chris Evans Interview: The Marvel star on politics, break-ups, and saying goodbye to Captain America (Robbie Collin, The Telegraph, 10 June 2017)

Chris Evans must be the only man in Hollywood to win his own superhero franchise then pray for it to fail. Back in 2010, the then-28-year-old actor signed a contract with Marvel Studios to appear in half a dozen films – both solo outings and ensemble jobs – as Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America, the Avengers’ flaxen-quiffed moral compass.

“One of my biggest fears was that the movies were going to be good,” he says, stroking a beard so keenly edged it might have been trimmed with a laser alignment tool. “Because if things worked out, I’d have to do all six of them. And at the time, that was the most terrifying aspect of it. That it was going to be so dominating, all-encompassing.”

What set Evans apart from his Avengers cohorts – and almost every other actor on the planet, come to that – was that he’d already made one circuit of the comic-book track. He’d played Johnny Storm, the combustible Human Torch, in 20th Century Fox’s nice-but-dim Fantastic Four films in the mid-noughties, until the series stalled after part two.

Playing Cap was a rare opportunity for a second spin on the merry-go-round. But he turned it down three times – a meeting with the Marvel high command finally persuaded him to reconsider – out of fear the role would prove so time-consuming he’d be unable to find space for much else.

Seven years on, with that contract about to come to a close with a two-part Avengers adventure Evans will be shooting until August, that’s more or less exactly what happened. But the actor, now 35 and stretched back in an armchair in a black shirt unbuttoned to the clavicle and with a fox-like smile on his face, looks well on it.

Along with Pine, Pratt and Hemsworth, Evans is one of those Chris actors that seem to be everywhere nowadays: bright-eyed, blond-haired comic-book franchise leading men with a valiant screen presence children fall in love with, and a chiselled, mildly insinuating edge that means their mothers often do likewise.

I’ve caught him fresh from the CBeebies studios in London, where he’s just recorded a rather apposite bedtime story, Shelley Becker and Eda Kaban’s Even Superheroes Have Bad Days, which was presumably commissioned by the BBC children’s channel with both of those audiences in mind.

We’ve met to talk about the latest project the actor has managed to squeeze around his Captain America schedule. Called Gifted, it’s a film about a taciturn boat mechanic called Frank whose seven-year-old niece and ward Mary turns out to be a mathematics prodigy of potentially internationally significant talent.

It cost as much to make as four minutes of the last Captain America film, and is a blockbuster detox both for Evans and its director Marc Webb, who came to it bloody and bruised from The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Evans had originally hoped to direct the film himself: it would have been his second such job, after an earnest, meandering 2014 romantic drama called Before We Go, in which love springs from a missed train connection. But by the time he’d thought it over the gig had already gone to Webb.

All the same, he was happy to star in it. “Those Captain America movies are great, and I’m proud of every one of them, but on set they’re giant f______ factories, and we spend a lot of time sitting around,” he says. Having last spoken to him on the set of Captain America: Civil War in August 2015, I can corroborate the story: over the course of one day, I watched the actor shoot a single scene in which his character holsters his shield, and he didn’t even have a shield to work with. (It was added in digitally later.)

“But on a movie like Gifted you come home every day and you feel like you got to act!” he glows. “You feel exhausted. You get through eight, nine pages of dialogue. On Captain America, you might get through two pages per day, if you’re lucky. And that’s fine, it’s a different process,” he adds. ‘But there’s something refreshing about that intimate exchange with the other people involved in a smaller film. You feel like you get your hands dirty. “

One of those people was the actress and comedian Jenny Slate, who plays Mary’s teacher, and later Frank’s love interest. Slate and Evans’ romance is so glowingly persuasive that it’s no surprise that the actors became a real-world couple for nine months after filming concluded, shortly after Slate separated from her now ex-husband, Dean Fleischer-Camp. They met after Evans had already been cast, during a series of ‘chemistry reads’ – that is, shared screen auditions to gauge a couple’s on-screen spark.

“Jenny could have chemistry with my f______ shoe,” Evans guffaws. “She just came in and created a very specific dance. She has a natural effortlessness about her, and she just exudes truth.”

In a recent interview with New York magazine, Slate said she had been keen to win the role to show “that it doesn’t always have to be a bikini model opposite Captain America” – which she went on to prove more emphatically than she probably expected.

Evans stresses Slate wasn’t cast for that reason – “we weren’t looking for someone ‘unexpected’” –  and also says he didn’t consider a move in the opposite direction by ‘uglying up’: that indelicately named process by which an actor temporarily divests themselves of their movie-star looks to prove their commitment to a serious part (think Charlize Theron in Monster, or Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant).

“You don’t want to do that just for the sake of optics,” says Evans, whose last unabashedly hideous role was as a mob assassin in The Iceman (2012). “I’ve never been one to preoccupy myself with how I’m perceived.”

The couple split in February – partly, said Slate, because Evans’ super-heroic public profile made the actual mechanics of dating in Los Angeles next to impossible. In light of that, you can appreciate why shooting a small film in the quiet coastal townships around Savannah, Georgia, held so much appeal for him between blockbusters.

“It felt like summer camp, you know?” he beams. “We were all away from our friends and family, so we become each other’s.” In the evenings, cast and crew bonded over board games – Evans’ idea – including Running Charades, one of the actor’s favourites. (Imagine Give Us a Clue crossed with British Bulldogs.)

“I love a good game night,” he says. “My family is very competitive. Monopoly back home usually turns into a screaming match.”

Back home is small-town Massachusetts, where Evans was raised in what he describes as “a family of theatre lunatics”. When he was 16, his mother Lisa became the artistic director of the youth theatre company where he and his three siblings spent much of their teenage years. (He says his mother was “thrilled” at the recent news he had been cast opposite his Scott Pilgrim vs. the World co-star Michael Cera in a Broadway revival of the Kenneth Lonergan play Lobby Hero.)

Unlike Mckenna Grace, his ebullient 10-year-old Gifted co-star, he lacked the confidence to be a child actor. “I was a shy little kid,” he says. “I really liked art – drawing and painting – and that’s what I thought I was going to do.”

But on leaving high school in 1998 he was set on course. He moved to New York, took acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Institute on Saturdays, and worked at a casting agency during the week. After a few months he was cast in a teen TV drama, Opposite Sex, as one of three male pupils at an all-girls school that had recently gone co-ed.

During his first flight to Los Angeles, he felt an uneasy mix of excitement and anxiety which he says still often comes over him as he arrives in the city.

“Your reason for going there – your hobby you’ve fallen in love with and want to pursue – becomes your job, which means something shifts,” he says. “All of a sudden there’s a desperation in you. Depending on where you are in your career, arriving in LA can feel like the most wonderful homecoming, or incredibly stressful. There are chapters in my life where it’s been the latter.”

Not that he’s likely to be waiting tables on roller skates any time soon, but Evans is about to rediscover what being footloose and franchise-free feels like. After promotional duties on the latest two Avengers films wind up in 2019, so will his contract with Marvel, after nine increasingly lucrative years. He was paid $300,000 for the initial Captain America film in 2011, though by Avengers: Age of Ultron four years later, this had swollen to $7 million.

It’s not quite the $40 million-a-picture commanded by his fellow Avenger Robert Downey Jr., nor indeed the $20 million by Scarlett Johansson, whom Evans has counted as a friend since 2004, when both appeared in a teen crime caper called The Perfect Score. But it’s a sum he describes as having given him “breathing room” – “not just financial stability, but the profile that means smaller films can get on their feet as a result of your involvement. So you can take more risks.”

Some have been political. Evans has spoken out in support of gun control and immigration, and against the current (at time of writing) US President: subjects franchise stars tend not to make explicit pronouncements on, given the risk of alienating potential audience-members in politically polarised times.

Cap himself, however, has been a progressive liberal voice since his invention during the Second World War, save for a brief (and later disavowed) flirtation with McCarthyism in the 1950s, and you sense the character would approve. Does taking on Trump feel like part of the job description?

“Yeah, like an obligation or something?” he nods. “It’s tough. I have a lot of actor friends who take no part in the political landscape, and that’s their right. But I don’t feel obligated as an actor, I feel obligated as a human. Even if I weren’t an actor I’d support causes I think are beneficial for the world and, speak out against things I think hurt people. It just so happens that I have a platform people pay attention to.”

Even so, the hour approaches for his big dismount. “I had six films in my Marvel contract, so I could have said after the third Avengers I was done, but they wanted to make the third and fourth Avengers films as a two-parter,” he explains. “They said they had so many other characters to fit in – Guardians of the Galaxy, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange, Ant Man – and couldn’t get them all into one movie.”

Cap’s ultimate fate is a secret on a par with the nuclear launch codes, though Evans will go as far as to say he agreed to the two-film arc “because it made sense. It’s going to wrap everything up.”

“I’ve been on sets where you get a vibe that everyone’s making a different movie,” he says. “The director one, the actors another, the producers another one still. Marvel has a way of ensuring that on the day filming begins, everyone is making the same meal.”

Right now, that might be Captain America’s last supper. But for Evans, that’s just for starters.

Gifted is released in UK cinemas on June 16

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The Killing of Rhonda Hinson Installment VII

Greg McDowell and Rhonda Hinson

By LARRY J. GRIFFIN                                                                                            Special Investigative Reporter

I hope you’re still exercising a lot and eating less food.  Maybe you can start taking vitamins to make up for what you don’t eat.  Are you going to be at least 2 lbs. lighter when I see you Friday?  Remember, no cheating.—Greg McDowell letter to Rhonda Hinson, December, 1981

Jill Turner-Mull was elated that Fall Semester, 1981 at Western Carolina was drawing to a close—she said as much to her best friend, Rhonda Hinson, in a 169-word missive penned on December 8th. The only specter looming between her and Christmas vacation was the inevitable battery of end-of-semester exams.

“I have so many tests these next two weeks, I think I’m just going to pull every hair out of my head.  I’ll be so glad when Dec. 18 gets here,” she writes.  

Her roommate, Katie Hudson [Purgason], was going to complete exams earlier and would leave campus on December 14th; so, Jill faced the prospect of being alone in their dorm room—she was less than excited about it.  “Katie is getting to leave Mon. December 14 because she doesn’t have anymore exams. I’m going to be by myself.  I’ll be so lonely.”

Jill’s boyfriend, Mark Turner, who would be completing his Fall Semester at Elon College, was to travel to Cullowhee to retrieve her.  “Mark is suppose [sic] to come get me then, but I’m trying to talk him into coming up here earlier say, Wed. [16th] or Thursday [17th].  [In his first interview with law enforcement on January 4, 1996—over 14-years subsequent to Rhonda’s murder—Mark Turner stated that he “thinks he returned home on December 17, 1981...” and was looking forward to being with Jill Turner.]

It was the next day—December 9th—that Jill placed the chartreuse envelop, destined for 1009 Hillcrest Street, Valdese, in the campus mail.

Greg McDowell was also looking toward the completion of the Fall Semester at N.C. State.  He too had been studying for exams when he wrote to girlfriend Rhonda a few days before he would be traveling westward to Burke County and to her. “…I’ve been so busy studying for final exams this week.  All I do is eat, sleep, and study for those exams.  I miss you and I love you very much.”

After expressing amorous aphorisms, Greg inquired after Rhonda’s exercising and food consumption:

…I hope you’re still exercising a lot and eating less food. Maybe you can start taking vitamins to make up for what you don’t eat.  Are you going to be at least 2 lbs [sic] lighter when I see you Friday! Remember, no cheating.  I can’t wait to see you Friday.  I’ll be home for a long time and we’ll spend Christmas together this year.  I love you very much and I’ll see you Friday.  I have to go study now.  

I love you Forever,

Your B + U man [Brontosaurs and Unicorn]

During the Summer and Fall, 1981, “…Rhonda had grown increasingly sensitive about her weight, and Greg’s remarks seemed to really hurt her but also seemed to make her eat even more,” her mother, Judy Hinson wrote in her personal recollections:

She said Greg made smart remarks about her eating and called her a fat pig….If Greg was here at meal time, she’d would either get a plate and stand beside the refrigerator so he could not see her eat or run in the kitchen and pack her mouth full when he was not looking.  This upset me and I told her so….

Rhonda Hinson stood 5’ 6” tall and weighed 130 lbs. In 1981, body-fat measures; e.g., Body Mass Index (BMI) and Waist-to-Height Ratio (WHtR) had yet to be popularized.  However, when Rhonda’s height and weight data are entered into a BMI calculator, the resultant value is 21.0.  The “normal weight” range is, 18.5—24.9.  Though this measure does not account for body type, specifically muscle and bone distribution, it certainly adjudges a person of Rhonda’s stature to be well within the “normal” range.  

On Sunday December 13th, Rhonda—who was slightly older than Greg, Jill, or Mark—turned 19-years-old.  Greg came home from N.C. State that weekend for her birthday celebration; however, neither Jill nor Mark was able to travel to Valdese for it.  And Jill Turner-Mull gave her best friend a “heads-up.”  She writes, “Me [sic] and Mark aren’t coming home this weekend; but, when we get home, we’ll all have to go out.”

Sometime subsequent to arriving home from school circa, December 17th, Mark Turner journeyed to the “new” Valley Hills Mall in Hickory to select a gift for his girlfriend, Jill.  He admitted to “putting Christmas shopping off to the last minute;” so, he asked Rhonda to accompany him.  While browsing in a store on the second floor, they selected a “blue sweater” for Jill and “maybe Rhonda buying Greg a coat.”  

Jill Turner-Mull recalled talking to Rhonda on Saturday, December 19th but averred that she never mentioned the eleventh-hour shopping excursion with Mark.  And she doubts that an additional gift was purchased for Greg—Rhonda had previously boasted to her, during a luncheon over the Thanksgiving holidays, about having completed all her Christmas shopping early.  

The date and substance of the shopping trip notwithstanding, Rhonda—at some juncture—removed her gray, hooded sweatjacket and tossed it in the backseat of Mark’s gold-colored Buick.   Fourteen years later, he recalled Rhonda’s leaving the sweatjacket with the initials embossed on one side:  HH WTC [likely, Hinson and Harris:  Women’s Tennis Champions].  

To commemorate the season, Hickory Steel scheduled a Christmas party for all employees for Tuesday evening, December 22nd.  A sign-up list was being circulated amongst employees.  Rhonda affixed her signature to it.  

“When Rhonda first mentioned the Christmas party, she didn’t know whether she was going or not,” Judy Hinson recorded in her personal recollections.  “…She told me that Betty [McDowell] kept asking for the list so she could see who was going.  Finally…they had to let her see it.  When she saw Rhonda’s name, she put her and Charles’s name down.  On Sunday after church when they went out to lunch, Rhonda said Betty told Greg she would get his suit pressed to wear to the party.”

Though she remained reticent at the time, Rhonda had already decided that she was not going to ask Greg to accompany her, and if he opted to attend the party—with his parents—she wasn’t going, and told her mother, Judy, as much.  “Rhonda was growing tired of Greg’s arrogant attempts at controlling her—where she went, who she talked to—everything.  She said, ‘Mom, if he goes with me, then I am not going to be able to talk with anybody—he is so jealous that he will question me every time I talk to someone.’ My daughter didn’t want the hassle.”

The week before she was killed, Rhonda received her first Christmas bonus from Hickory Steel.  If she even entertained the notion of attending the company party, she realized that she didn’t have any appropriate clothing to wear.  So, “she decided she would spend it all on an outfit to wear to the party,” Ms. Hinson recalled.  “On Saturday [December 19th], she asked me to go shopping with her.”

Though her boyfriend was home from college, Rhonda knew that she could not shop for clothes with him.  “Everytime she got her check, she bought something for Greg; but if she bought for herself and he found out, he said she was being wasteful and would get mad….If Rhonda bought new clothes she would hide them from Greg. He told her that a person only needed three changes of clothing.  Rhonda loved new clothes but when she went out with Greg, she could not wear anything new. She said she had to wash anything she bought before she wore it so Greg would not know it was new,” Ms. Hinson recollected.    

The Saturday shopping trip was a memorable one. The plan was to travel to Morganton to find an outfit; but despite their best efforts, Judy and Rhonda could not find anything that she liked.  So, they returned to the stores on Valdese’s main street—again no luck.  “We went to Hickory to the new mall,” Judy remembered. “She tried on lots of clothes; we laughed because she tried on really far out things that we knew she would not buy. She bought our lunch and we laughed and talked.  We then went to the old mall [Catawba Mall].”  

Rhonda’s mother noted that each time they entered or exited her new Datsun, she locked the doors.  

“That whole day, neither Rhonda or [sic] I mentioned Greg.  She was happier that day than I had seen her in a long time,” Judy observed.  

The day-long shopping excursion produced no satisfactory results; so a weary mother and daughter journeyed home.  “I said, ‘Rhonda it is late, about 5 p.m.  …We should have called your dad; he’ll be worried about us.’  ‘I’ll take care of dad.’”  

Then her mood abruptly changed.  “Oh God, if Greg has called, he will really be mad,” Rhonda exclaimed to her mother.  

“It was like she panicked then.  She began to drive really fast.  I told her we were so late already; there was not any point to rushing now.  She stopped laughing and talking then.  She turned the radio on and was quiet the rest of the way home.”

When Rhonda and Judy arrived back home, Brother Robbie confirmed his sister’s prescient fear.  “Rhonda, you had better call Greg.  He has been calling all day and I think he is mad.”

Rhonda Hinson had less than 72-hours to live.    

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Becoming the Band: A Primer

Even today, nearly half a century later, one marvels at the mystery of the Band’s arrival on the music scene. They presented themselves as ciphers; though they seemed to have stepped right out of the past, they didn’t appear to have a past themselves. Oh, we received information about their history, but it seemed to conceal as much as it revealed. It was no surprise that the first major story about them, an Al Aronowitz piece in the Aug. 24, 1968, issue of Rolling Stone, swathed them in shadow. In the Elliott Landy photo that graced the magazine’s cover, the five members are squeezed together on a bench, facing a river or small lake, their backs to the lens.

When it materialized out of the ether in 1968, Music From Big Pink was hard to figure out on a first listen, or even on a tenth or twentieth. Who was playing what? Who was singing? How many singers were there? Where did those horns come from? Were all those weird sounds coming out a keyboard, or were they transmitted from Mars? And what the hell were those strange, cryptic songs about? Who were those curious characters that inhabited them: Crazy Chester, Miss Moses, Lonesome Suzie? What’s that Bob Dylan painting supposed to mean? Who are these guys?

The record conjured a powerful mystique, and its sound rippled through hippiedom like a musical smoke signal. Its sequel The Band, released 14 months later, was earthier, more straightforward; if Big Pink resembled some magical text translated from a hitherto unknown language, the sophomore album played like a raunchy history book. And yet, by the time it landed, we still knew very little about the Band. The vast majority of their fans, and they had rolled up a few by then, hadn’t even had a chance to hear them perform live – they had played just two concerts by the time the second LP reached stores in September 1969.

They had a secret history, it seems, a long one, one that predated their justly acclaimed debut, which could hardly be considered a real debut at all. Finally based in America after a long apprenticeship on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border, with side trips to Europe and the Antipodes, and a fateful siege of woodshedding in West Saugerties, New York, they weaved everything they had learned into their music. And they had learned much, for most of them were whey-faced teens, almost absolute beginners, when they began. It’s a rich tale, best heard in the music they scattered in the early days of their career.

Most now know that they had their genesis as members of the Hawks, the backup band for Ronnie Hawkins, an Arkansas native who discovered he could make more money playing rockabilly, blues, and R&B covers in the clubs on Toronto’s Yonge Street than in the buckets-of-blood back home. So he settled in up north, with fellow razorback Levon Helm serving as his drummer and musical director, reeling in young, feisty Canuck players to fill out his outfit.

They came aboard one by one, like the Magnificent Seven: Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, and Richard Manuel, all in their teens and spoiling for adventure, were recruited by Hawkins and Helm. Keyboardist Garth Hudson, the senior member of the band, by then in his late 20s, completed the crew when he signed on in 1964.

Hawkins and his band, christened the Hawks, made music for clubs where chicken wire was strung in front of the stage to deflect flying beer bottles; in time, they would encounter the one-armed stripper who worked in Jack Ruby’s bombed-out Dallas joint.

The task of making music that would entertain some of the most drunken and pugnacious clientele in the Northern Hemisphere resulted in recordings, made for Roulette Records, the province of magnate/mobster Morris Levy, which displayed an intense ferocity and an authentic bluesiness. You can hear “Who Do You Love,” “Further On Up the Road,” and “She’s Nineteen Years Old” – covers of Bo Diddley, Bobby Blue Bland, and Muddy Waters numbers, respectively – on the superlative retrospective The Band: A Musical History. It was tough stuff, played with no frills.

Hawkins took the Hawks to finishing school, but the boss proved too parsimonious and dictatorial for their tastes, so they dropped out and went along on their own, cutting singles for Roman, Ware, and Atco Records under the names Levon & the Hawks and (ugh) the Canadian Squires. Their 1964-65 45s – “Leave Me Alone,” “The Stones I Throw (Will Free All Men),” “Go Go Liza Jane” – were written by Robertson, and display a folksiness as generic as their titles. They were more at home slugging it out in support of John Paul Hammond, the mush-mouthed, blues-singing son of Columbia A&R man John Hammond, who had signed Bob Dylan a few years earlier.

It may have been fated that the Hawks would end up playing with Dylan. A Canadian connection apparently brought them together. If working with Hawkins had been the musicians’ secondary education, they received their post-graduate degrees, master’s and Ph.D, behind Dylan, then entering his acid dandy period and looking for a band that could put electric flesh on the poetic bone of his careening new songs.

In the immediate wake of his uproarious debut with an electric band (mostly Paul Butterfield’s) at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, Dylan enlisted the Hawks to back him on his first rock ‘n’ roll tour. Their initial American dates with him – which coincided with some ill-fated recording sessions for his next album – are poorly documented on recordings, but the limited evidence – most notably a date in Berkeley, California -- show the group groping toward a grander ensemble conception.

They tried their best in the studio, but they did not really succeed. They cut a venomous remake of Dylan’s “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window,” but the single was a resounding flop. Worse, attempts to cut more sprawling, vaporous tunes like “Visions of Johanna” and “She’s Your Lover Now” came to naught; on the huge, comprehensive set of Dylan’s 1965-66 studio recordings, The Cutting Edge, you can hear him vibrating with frustration over his musicians’ incomprehension. He soon decamped to Nashville, bringing only Robertson with him, and employed Al Kooper and some top session men to bring Blonde On Blonde to fruition.

By the time more live dates began in February of 1966, Levon Helm – who had been hip-checked to the side by Dylan in the New York studio – had wearied of being booed and exited for a job on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. First with studio man Sandy Konikoff and ultimately with Mickey Jones of the Trini Lopez and Johnny Rivers bands on drums, the rest of the Hawks played on in the U.S., Australia, and Europe.

Many of the outraged crowds spat fire and brimstone at Dylan and his over-amped punks, and they spat back. The often frenzied performances of ’66 were comprehensively compiled on a recent Columbia box, Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings; the best electric sets – Manchester, Paris, London – play with a silken grandeur, and sometimes with bristling animosity. (“Play fucking loud!”) In that day, hearing these high-volume shows must have been like sticking your head into a jet engine.

By late May, when the tour concluded in London, Dylan was hurtling toward a wall at light speed; you listen with horror to his incoherent stage rants during the final gig at the Royal Albert Hall. Two months later, he broke some bones in his neck in a bad motorcycle accident near his secluded home in Woodstock, New York. He burrowed into hiding to recuperate, but he soon would have the company of his backup band again.

They trickled into town. Robertson, who had grown close to Dylan on the European dates, showed up first, late in the year, ostensibly to help with the editing of an impressionistic film drawn from footage of the ’66 European concerts. In the early spring of 1967, Manuel, Danko, and Hudson reached Woodstock; they set up shop in a garish pink ranch house in West Saugerties. (Robertson was already ensconced with his fiancée in a house of his own, not far from the manse of Dylan’s manager Albert Grossman.)

Thus bunkered, far from the day-to-day tumult of the record biz, the Hawks began their doctoral work, sometimes in Dylan’s living room, more frequently in the basement of the communal Big Pink house.

What became known as the Basement Tapes (after a fraction of them were first bootlegged for the first time in 1969 on The Great White Wonder) can today be heard as a sort of private musical symposium. At first, Dylan and his group ranged through nearly every imaginable style of American music – blues, R&B, folk, country – and ran down some English and Celtic antecedents as well. (On their own, the group, who knew their way around horns, would bring jazz to the table as well.)

First came covers, but then new original songs followed: mostly by Dylan, but some of them penned with Manuel and Danko as well. Inspired now, with a world of music flowing easily through them, they began to write songs of their own – allusive, funky songs that veered afield from their earlier work on their own. You can hear them on A Musical History; a few are included in doctored form on the 1975 Columbia set The Basement Tapes. Some of these songs – “Word and Numbers,” “You Don’t Come Through,” “Ferdinand the Imposter,” “Ruben Remus” – would be demoed, only to disappear. Others – the ripping “Yazoo Street Scandal,” “Katie’s Been Gone,” “Orange Juice Blues” – would be professionally recorded but remain unreleased. Others still would form the basis of a debut album.

After the group was put on the market by Albert Grossman and signed to Capitol Records, the promise of that album finally lured Levon Helm back into the fold, and he settled in with the rest of them at Big Pink. The die was now cast: They were a new act now, and their old handle would not do. What to call something so rich and strange? Some jokes were proposed: the Crackers, the Honkies. In the end, the moniker they chose for themselves settled comfortably on their shoulders, at once generic yet encompassing everything that flowed into their music: The Band. And thus the mystery began.

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Shops and schools closed. Households protected in the house. However the coronavirus pandemic didn’t stop Americans from buying more Crocs.

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” Individuals are beginning to think they’re cool,” stated Karina Saucedo, 26 years old, who vowed she would never ever purchase a set when she first laid eyes upon Crocs about 15 years earlier.

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Crocs was the only shoes brand among the top 30 tracked by scientists at NPD Group to tape sales development in March, a 14%increase compared with the very same month in2019 It was likewise among the two companies, in addition to sheepskin boot-maker Ugg, to log development in April– a month when numerous shops were closed. Last month search interest on Google for Crocs reached a 15- year high. They have returned to.

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Friday 6th October 2017

"Madainn Mhath” …Fellow Scot, I hope the day brings joy to you…. Friday, the end of the week draws to a close…. But life goes on, so Bella and I leave the house into a blustery Estepona, winds have started to pick up and what was a warm breeze is now rattling the shutters on the shops and shaking the leaves on the trees.. The cleaning guys are just watching the trash blow hither and yon as a “Dust Devil” blows down main street.. we are not perturbed, just turn a corner and the wind is gone… and the smell of the bakery takes over…

HEBRIDEAN COMMUNITY OF ULVA BIDS FOR RIGHT TO BUY ISLAND…. A small Hebridean community is calling on the Scottish Government to give people a chance to buy the island where they live. The once-thriving population of Ulva, off the west coast of Mull, has dwindled to six including present laird Jamie Howard, who has decided to sell the island his family has owned for more than 70 years. Potential buyers from all over Europe have expressed an interest in the property, which was put on the market this summer for offers over £4.25 million. But now the for sale signs are down pending a government decision on North West Mull Community Woodland Company’s application, requesting time to prepare a local buyout bid. Barry George, who is in his 50s and has lived on Ulva for 21 years, said: “It’s quite unsettling thinking about what happens next, because this is the only roof I have, I have nothing else.” Mr George, who now runs the community bus, was originally given the chance to stay on Ulva when he worked for a local fish farm, which leased homes for workers. He said: “I remember when every single house was occupied, when I came here all the houses were full and there were children. “But now we have houses stood empty. With a community buyout, our priority would be to repopulate the island. I am sure we could get people to come here.” North West Mull Community Woodland Company, which looks after the interests of remote areas including Ulva, has applied to the Scottish Government for the go-ahead to prepare a community buyout bid.

UK'S LONGEST-LASTING PATCH OF SNOW MELTS AWAY…. An 11-year-old patch of snow has melted away on Britain's third highest mountain. Known as the Sphinx, the snow at Garbh Choire Mor on Braeriach is historically the longest-lasting in Scotland's mountains. Experts believe snow at that spot has now only disappeared completely seven times in the last 300 years. Affectionately known by climbers and walkers as "Scotland's glacier", it last melted in 2006. The last layers of snow that melted away over the weekend fell late in 2006. Another patch of snow on Aonach Beag melted last week. This is the first time in 11 years that no patches of snow have survived on Scotland's hills. Stirling-based Iain Cameron, who seeks out and records snow that survives on Scotland's highest mountains, had earlier forecast that the Sphinx was at risk of melting away. Mild and wet weather during the most recent winter was a major factor in reducing the snow patch's chances of survival. In August, for the first time in 11 years, there was no snow on Britain's highest mountain, Ben Nevis.

SAOIRSE RONAN'S MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS FILMING IN GLEN COE…. Scenes for a new film about Mary, Queen of Scots have been filmed in the Scottish Highlands. The filming in Glen Coe involved Irish-American actress Saoirse Ronan, who plays Mary Stuart, and Scottish actor Jack Lowden, who plays Mary's husband Lord Darnley. Ronan's breakthrough film was 2011's Hanna, in which she played a teenage assassin opposite Cate Blanchett. Her other movies include 2013's The Host. Lowden was a Spitfire pilot in this year's Christopher Nolan-directed war film, Dunkirk. Australian actress Margot Robbie will appear as Elizabeth I in Mary, Queen of Scots. Scots actor and former Doctor Who David Tennant and former Neighbours star Guy Pearce also have roles. The Universal Pictures and Working Titles feature is expected to be released in cinemas next year. Others to have played Mary, Queen of Scots on screen have included Vanessa Redgrave, Samantha Morton and Zarah Leander. Born at West Lothian's Linlithgow Palace in 1542, Mary's early years were spent at Stirling Castle, Inchmahome Priory and Dumbarton Castle before she was taken to France in 1548. She returned to Scotland in 1561 to begin her reign as Queen of Scots and moved into Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. Mary was executed at Fotheringhay Castle on 8 February 1587 at the age of 44.

TWO MEN CHARGED OVER £2M HEROIN SEIZURE IN STIRLING….  Police also recovered 40kg of tobacco in the raid on a business property at Bandeath Industrial Estate on Thursday. The arrested men, aged 56 and 34, are due to appear at Stirling Sheriff Court later. Police Scotland described the 20kg haul as "an absolutely massive quantity" of the drug. Det Insp Dougie Telfer said: "As a result of targeted enforcement activity, based on public intelligence, we have been able to recover an absolutely massive quantity of heroin before it could make its way onto our streets. "Heroin and other harmful substances are a very real threat to the health and wellbeing of our communities and every year these drugs are responsible for the death of vulnerable people. They are a blight on our communities. "The seizure of this heroin highlights our ongoing commitment to utilising all available resources at our disposal to tackle drug crime and bring those involved in offences of this nature to justice."

RARE LEISLER'S BAT ROOST FOUND IN GALLOWAY FOREST PARK…. The rare Leisler's bat has taken up a maternity roost in Galloway Forest Park, the second confirmed site for it in Scotland. The grouping of female bats come together in a location in late summer to have their pups. Forest Enterprise Scotland said that although widely distributed the Leisler's bat was not common in Scotland and such roosts were rare. The first recorded roost was in Culzean Country Park back in 2012. The Galloway roost had at least 27 adult females which FES said was a good sign its plantation forests were playing an "important part" in allowing the bat to flourish. Environment forester Gareth Ventress said: "Since 2010, a group of bat experts and volunteers have been trying to find out more about the rare Leisler's bat in Scotland. "At first we knew that bat boxes on the National Forest Estate were being used by Leisler's bats in the Cree Valley and Glentrool area of Galloway. "Unfortunately, there was no evidence of breeding at all." He said research had continued but it had proved difficult to find signs of breeding until 2016 when a juvenile male was found which confirmed a roost must be nearby. "The team decided to come back again this July and were successful in finding lactating Leisler's bats with the help of sonic lures and specialist bat nets," he said. "We radio-tagged three adult female bats and were able to track them to their maternity roosts. "We're really pleased that our forests are providing a safe haven for this wonderful and rare bat." The Leisler's is a mid-sized bat, about 5 to 7cm long with a wingspan of between 26 and 32cm. It is one of just 10 bat species found in Scotland, all of which can be found in Galloway Forest, including the only known Scottish Brandt's bat roost.

On that note I will say that I hope you have enjoyed the news from Scotland today,

Our look at Scotland today is of the rare Leister’s bat laying on a piece of bark….  

A Sincere Thank You for your company and Thank You for your likes and comments I love them and always try to reply, so please keep them coming, it's always good fun, As is my custom, I will go and get myself another mug of "Colombian" Coffee and wish you a safe Friday 6th October 2017 from my home on the southern coast of Spain, where the blue waters of the Alboran Sea washes the coast of Africa and Europe and the smell of the night blooming Jasmine and Honeysuckle fills the air…and a crazy old guy and his dog Bella go out for a walk at 4:00 am…on the streets of Estepona…

All good stuff....But remember it’s a dangerous world we live in

Be safe out there…

Robert McAngus