Tag: BBC World Service

“Fido, may I have this next dance?”

Is there no end to the relationship between our dogs and us!

maxresdefault
The BBC recently carried a gorgeous news item under the heading of: ‘Fido, may I have this dance?’: The women who dance with dogs.

Meet the women who spend years training their pooches to pirouette, plié, and polka – in the competitive global sport of Musical Canine Freestyle.

Spanish film maker Bego Antón has travelled across the USA documenting this curious, and heart-warming, hobby.

She spoke to BBC World Update’s Dan Damon about the skill and practice – and good humour – involved.

Luckily, in this interconnected world we now live in, the BBC video interview made it on to YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYbIbFMKqq8

Let me close with a further photograph.

p035wp60

Rather produces a new twist to that old expression, “He dances as if he had two left feet!”

See you tomorrow!

Tough day? Try this!

It will take at least four months to rescue 33 miners trapped underground in Chile, the head of the rescue operation has said.

From the BBC.

Ouch, ouch and ouch!

So if you are having a bad day, stop and think about these 33 souls buried some 4.5 miles (7km) inside a Chilean mine some 2,300 feet (700m) down .

The announcement that they were still alive was made on Sunday by Chilean President Sebastian Pinera.

Surrounded by relatives of the miners who have gathered outside the mine, he held up a note from the miners saying: “All 33 of us are fine in the shelter.”

“It will take months to get them out,” Mr Pinera said. “They’ll come out thin and dirty, but whole and strong.”

Amen to that!

Todd Russell and Brant Webb endured 14 days in a Tasmanian mine in 2006.  This is what Todd told the BBC World Service:

Todd Russell, an Australian miner who was trapped 3,000ft underground in Tasmania after an earthquake in 2006, said he and a second miner who survived the collapse relied on each other for support.

“It’s amazing what your body can do,” he told the BBC World Service. “We survived on hope and courage, and each other, [and] we were lucky enough to have a bit of underground mine water.”

“They’re lucky that they’ve got 33 guys there with them that they can rely on each other,” Mr Russell said.

Here’s some footage of their rescue:

Let’s all pray that these 33 Chilean miners end up arm-in-arm back on the surface as Todd and Brant did.

Brant Webb and Todd Russell

By Paul Handover