Ellee Seymour

I call it a cowardly attack of the worst kind. Two men on a motor bike pull up alongside a woman on her way to work, one of them jumps off and shoots her at close range. She was defenceless and unarmed. Her crime was to be a Christian woman.

The Taleban claimed responsibility for this despicable murder, accusing her of spreading Christianity. Are they able to hang their heads in shame?

Gayle Williams, 34, leaves behind a legacy of her warm hearted generosity towards her killer’s countrymen in Afghanistan. She continued working there for the Christian organisation Serve Afghanistan, despite the death of three women by the Taleban in August who were judged to be "foreign spies". She knew she was taking risks.

The charity focuses on providing education and training for people with disabilities. Gayle had been there for two-and-a-half-years and was managing a community development project focused on disabled people. She was trying to make a difference to their lives.

How could someone as good as Gayle be considered a threat and executed in such a cold blooded way?

Cowards, cowards, cowards…

My blogging friend Richard  Havers would like to hear from you if you have seen The Beatles live, or know someone who did, for a project he is working on.

This is the post Richard wrote where you can contact him, and he’s getting some interesting responses.  This is what he says, though I had no idea The Beatles played to more Americans than Brits:

I’d love to know what it was really like. Could you really hear nothing? Or maybe you saw them before the screaming set in.
The Beatles during 1961 performed around 250 gigs and by the time their first single – Love Me Do – was released in Britain on 5 October 1962 they had performed close to another 250 gigs. Of course up to this point they were just another pop band struggling to make it.

The Beatles stopped playing live on 29 August 1966 when they gave their final concert for the 25,000 people at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. A few days earlier they had performed at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles in front of a crowd of 45,000. These and other stadium shows in America meant that the Beatles played to many more Americans than they did to people in Britain; for the most part, after they became famous, it was shows at Gaumonts, Odeons, Astorias and Palais at home. They did appear once more on the roof of the Apple building on 30 January 1969 but it could hardly be called a concert.

Is it really 42 years since they gave their final concert? Unbelievable!