Omar's Diary - Jeudi 8th Janvier 2015

I do apologise for the lack of diary entries over the last few days.  You see, my man servant who always takes my dictation has been away with lady servant for a couple of days.

They are both back now and things are returning to normal.

Unlike Paris where following the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo yesterday things will never be the same again and the city will have to adjust to a new form of normality. Heartfelt sympathies go out to the victims and their families.  They were just doing their jobs and exercising their right to express themselves freely.  Vive la liberte!

It is not physically possible for all of us spread around the world to flock to Paris in sympathy.  We can express our feelings through social media such as Facebook and Twitter or there might be another way…….

How about showing solidarity for the values those journalists upheld by making a special and concerted effort to buy a copy of Charlie Hebdo wherever we can and post pictures of the paper on Facebook describing where it was bought?