Children trapped in cars by car locks can suffer from changes in the temperature inside the car.
The same applies to babies, and animals.
Sometimes the parents make a mistake. Sometimes the carer does so. How could you check on your child? By a sensor in the car, a car seat, or just asking the driver of the car, or the carer, to send you video updates.
In the UK two pre-schools send the parents a photo or video half way through the morning, at lunch and after lunch, about every two hours. To a group chat on whatsapp which both parents can watch. This should be done with all children.
You also need a visual watch on the inside of your car to be sure nobody is left inside.
Some modern cars in the USA have text reminders. Or digital messages about detecting heat or movement in the passenger or back seat. These reminders can also be connected to your phone, or to a WhatsApp group such as both parents.
I think there should be a big sign warning that is it a criminal offense to leave a child locked in a car for more than 5 minutes. It should go on private cars and hire cars.
Check the government or State and local laws where you live and the USA State or country you are visiting.
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Notice that the name is not Olivo but Ulivo. The restaurant is between Embankment and Charing Cross stations. In a pedestrian alleyway between the two.
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I use Charing Cross station and Embankment stations a lot. Charing Cross is by Trafalgar Square and several museums and galleries. Embankment is near other attractions. Walking between them you see the old Sherlock Holmes pub.
Embankment Station Coffee Shops
Coming out of Embankment station, you are facing a coffee bar with minimal seating, and just to its left under the arches with more seating is another coffee bar. A good place for a quick stop when on your way to a meeting if you are early, and it is raining.
Embankment Station Souvenirs
A huge souvenir shop is under the arches by Embankment station. I love looking in the window and want to buy everything. It sells everything from nonsenses like mesmerising nodding head dolls and ducks wearing union Jacks and crowns, to small suitcases at large prices. I once saw a minicar covered in Union Jacks. I immediately announced to my spouse, 'If I lived in a mansion with a large hall I would buy it'. My alarmed husband dragged me away.
However, my latest discovery, was the restaurant down the alley which leads uphill to Embankment station.
We ordered soup of the day, vegetable soup, and white bread to dunk in it. That was enough to ruin the diet, but gave us energy for long journeys home to the suburbs.
The place, whose name means olive, has recently been redecorated. The latest romantic style, with fairy lights on trees.
A great place to sit and converse after a meeting, recount stories of people and places and tell jokes.
The toilets are down a steep flight of stairs. Our jolly host claimed he was quoting the late Queen Mother, 'Go when you can, not when you must.'
I think that applies to both toilets and restaurants.
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Olive Restaurant
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L'ulivo Charing Cross, Italian Restaurant, caffe, bar, 23 Villiers Street, Charing Cross WC2H 6ND
tel: +44 020 3441 3012.
Open 12 noon until 11 pm, until 10.30 pm Sundays.
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What to do in a car or traffic jam
Keep a bowl or empty bottle in the car. If you are caught short and will soon reach toilets, but not in time, empty out a water bottle. Use it as a toilet. Empty out - it still looks like a water bottle, but remove the label. Wash it out later or with a second bottle of water.
When hiking, you might wish to go behind a bush. But you risk falling over tree roots, into holes. Or attracting insects, even animals.
Once in the undergrowth, removing your underwear is another challenge. You don't want to wet your clothes from drips, splashes.
Use an umbrella over yourself when squatting, or over the open door of a vehicle, or over the window, or held by your passenger.
Use a towel or coat over the car door or window. A closed car door or open car door.
Place a coat or cushion or pillow to block the view into the car through the back or front window.
Keep in the car and fold up concertina cardboard or cloth car window shade. These are designed to protect the car from over heating in sun. They also, keep off flies. Or as a barrier to rain and snow.
Remember, it might be unhygienic or illegal or unpopular to urinate within a city or near buildings. to avoid needing to go, wait to eat food and drink liquids until you are near a toilet.
A saying attributed to various people, is:
Go when you can, not when you must.
This means using the toilet before leaving a restaurant even if you don't feel the urge.
You can make emergency wet wipes and hand cleaners by putting the contents of a box of tissues or face flannels in a sealable plastic box and adding enough water to wet the fabric. If it dries out, you can add more drinking water.
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The name Spain is derived from the Ancient Roman name for the area, Hispania. That's why people from the region are still called hispanic.
I wondered why technical articles referred to ancient Roman, when we normally just speak about the Romans. Were they a subsection of Romans, the earliest ones? Then I realised that recent, modern, and current inhabitants of Rome are called Romans. Rome is still there, still called Rome. So it just means the Roman Empire?
Checking Spelling
I thought better check on this. When I was a sub-editor I learned that you need to check on everything, even if you think it is obvious and well-known. Spellings, vary from the UK to the USA.
Checking Capital Cities
Capital cities are not necessarily the largest cities or the ones with the biggest population. New York is not the capital of America. The capital is Washington DC. Capitals move. The same applies to the capital cities of US states. Also watch out for the capitals of Australia, Indonesia, Poland, and Russia.
Capitals get moved, because of weather, sinking cities, to be more central, or to please populations who want the capital nearer where they live, especially with rival groups, to depopulate a crowded place or to populate an empty area and provide more work and space. So, the names and locations of capital cities, and smaller cities, will change.
Spanish names have stayed and become so familiar that if you don't speak Spanish, you forget the origin. Some Spanish place names are well-known and obvious if you speak some Spanish, or after you have heard about them.
The Spanish origin names can be grouped into various categories. Some are named after saints or people. Others are named after geographical features.
I have arranged them alphabetically, with the components separated.
angeles - angels, as in the Californian city Los Angeles
el - the (add an accent on the letter e to make the word he) as in El Paso
el paso - the pass
grande - not grand ie important but large
los - the (plural, like these and those) as in Los Angeles
Los Angeles - the angels
paso - pass or place where you pass over a mountain or through a border
rio - river
rio grande - big river, or river which is long and wide. The order of the name reminds you that in Spanish the adjective comes after the noun.
sacramento - sacrament
San Francisco - Saint Francis
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Spanish - English
Costa - coast
Costa Del Sol - coast of the sun (or sunny coast)
de - of
del - of the
el - the
entrada - entrance
salida - exit
sol - sun
Plaza Mayor, Madrid - main square, Madrid
