DR. DODIDDILY AND THE DEE DOT'S

WELCOME YOU TO THE WORLD AROUND US.

WHICH IS BASED FOR PROTECTION INSIDE

As the America's come in two seperate land area's (North America and South America)  joined in the middle by Central America.  I think it is best to look at them individually with the hope that I can find really interesting topics for each of them. This of course in South America, which just happens to be one of my favourite places on Earth, so many different and vibrant sounds and colours emerge as we travel from one to the other. xxx

Ecuador

Deep in the remote mountains of central Ecuador, the largest undiscovered treasure in Latin America waits to be found. This ancient horde of Inca gold comes complete with a vengeful curse, multiple treasure maps and a trail of dead adventurers.

It sounds like a plot from an Indiana Jones film, but explorers claim to have found ruins hidden deep in a dense and dangerous Amazonian jungle that could solve many of South America's mysteries – and lead to one of the world's most sought-after treasures.

ECUADOR HAS SOMETHING VERY DEAR TO MY HEART AS WELL .... AND THAT IS 

The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, 906 km west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part. And to me the bit that makes me so happy is all the different animals that live here. Would you like to meet some very special ones? Okay then, shall we begin.

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WAS THAT WONDERFUL OR NOT, I KNOW SEVERAL LITTLE BOYS WHO WILL BE VERY PLEASED THAT

Dr Dodiddly and the Dee Dot's went specially to seek out these special animal treasures. xxx

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THE DEFORESTATION OF BRAZIL

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WOW! WHAT AWAY TO LEARN ALL THE CAPITALS OF THE COUNTRIES IN SOUTH AMERICA. PHEW I DDON'T THINK I WILL EVER FORGET THEM.

Please enjoy these little stories in song whilst I get on with finding lots of wonderful things for your page

Fun for all the children of the world with Dr. Dodiddily and the Dee Dot's

 A little bit about myself and my Sisters

Kath, (far left) Sylvia, blonde (middle) Dorothy (me far right) Amy (Toni, in front)

     Dr. Dodiddily is one of four sisters. First there is my sister Sylvia, she is the eldest and the smallest. Then there is my sister Toni(Amy) she is two years younger than Sylvia, Toni lives in Kent. The next one born in 1944 was Dorothy, yes my lovelies this is my real name. I am three years younger than Toni. One more to come and that is my sister Kathleen, she is the baby of the family and she is  four years younger then myself. 

     We couldn never hand our cloths down to each other, we were all very different sizes, and anyone coming after me wouldn't have been able to wear anything I was such a tom-boy and thing were worn out long before Kath could have them.

     This is a very old picture of the four of us taken in Coed Poeth in North Wales, way back in 1952/3.                Gosh I am an Ancient Dragon, aren't I ! xxx.       

This is myself and my sisters in 1979 just 26 years later, we are with our mother who like myself was called Dorothy. We are from left to right  Sylvia, Toni, My Mum, Dorothy (me) Kathleen.

Jayden, Noah Rhys, Brodie Leigh with Diddily in the background you can just see my grey hair.

And now some music from South Korea I believe you all loved the bands that have visited your shores

  Dr. Dodiddily and the Dee Dot's are flying to South Korea in 42 days ttime to join in the Fesivals of the Blossom in Busan. And today is February 17th 2015. xxx

SOME MYTHS AND LEGENDS FROM PATAGONIA AND CHILE XXX

Swelling under a brisk westerly wind, Lake Nahuel Huapi hides folklore, a badly kept secret, a tradition and a symbol that represents the history of the changing face of Argentina.

From the continent that gave birth to the Magical Realist movement through writers such as Jorge Luís Borges and Colombian Gabriel García Marquéz, it was no surprise to me to stumble across the superstitions that surround the mythical creatures of Argentina and Chile’s southernmost region, Patagonia.

Clearly, the lines between the reality and the fantastic are blurred. There are many myths that hold their roots in both indigenous and post-conquest culture encapsulating Argentina’s hybridity. The myth of ‘Nahuelito’ is no exception. It surprisingly strikes an interesting chord in helping to understand the country’s past and its future in areas as diverse as politics, environment and ecology, and national – as well as regional – identity.

Nahuelito; named after the stunning Lake Nahuel Huapi, which lies across the border of Neuquén and Río Negro provinces, was apparently first sighted by Martin Sheffield, a North American in search of gold who raised the alarm in 1922. Descriptions vary, but significant features reoccur in eye-witness accounts such as its “swan-like neck”, “a series of fins” and “dark coloured humps.” These descriptions and dubious evidence in the way of photographs, some of which have now been declared fraudulent, have created the popular image of a plesiosaur-like monster.

The changing environment is not the only contribution made to the myth of Nahuelito. Indigenous culture that spans back many centuries is important to the foundation of the modern myth. Whittall believes that there has been an “exchange” of folklore between the Indian groups of Patagonia and those in the Paraguayan Amazon. This is also supported by the sightings that claim Nahuelito could be a creature similar to the manta-ray. Although no freshwater rays live in Patagonia, they do exist in the Río Paraná in Paraguay and it is a possibility that they could have been appropriated to the lakes in Patagonia by nomadic natives. Whittall also thinks “it’s possible that when the Inca invaded Chile in the 1440s they brought their Amazonian myths with them.”

The Mapuche language and myths of ‘El Cuero’, a human-eating manta-ray, have been applied to Argentine Patagonia, in which case we are now looking at Chilean myths through an Argentine lens. This implies that Nahuelito stands as a symbol for regional identity in the Southern Cone, rather than purely an object of Argentine culture.

“I wouldn’t say they were eliminated but the natives [of Argentina] lost their culture. They worked on ranches and sheered sheep. What little we know about them comes from Chile, which still has a very large Mapuche population,” Whittall explains, implying a different cultural strand has been woven into the fabric of the myth.

                        I'm not even sure if I have heard much if any of her music yet. I will have to get to You Tube and have a look for some young stuff and more ancient stuff from back in time. It should be really great when I've finished. Be patient mind for it takes me quite a long time to get started and you will find it growing a little more each week. xxx Dr. Dodiddily and the Dee Dot's . Now where share we start? Hm a bit of song and vision I think.

The remarkable accomplishment of a great humanist, José Antonio Abreu, who dedicated his life to set up the 'Sistema' in 1975, an extraordinary music and social project which has been running in Venezuela in an attempt to transform the lives of the nations poorest children. 
It has been using classical music to tackle the social problems of a country where 60% of the population live below the poverty line. By offering free instruments and tuition through a network of after-school centres all over the country, the Sistema has kept thousands of children away from the drugs, alcohol and gang-related violence of the streets and has led to the creation of 30 professional orchestras in a country that had only 2 before it started. Currently, 275,000 children attend the Sistemas schools and many of them play in one of the 125 youth orchestras.

At the pinnacle of the system stands the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela under its music director Gustavo Dudamel who is himself a product of the Sistema and is also the musical director for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

THE ARMADILLO WHO WANTED TO SING

There once lived an armadillo who loved music more than anything else in the world. After every rainfall, the armadillo would drag his shell over to the large pond filled with frogs and he would listen to the big green frogs singing back and forth, back and forth to each other in the most amazing voices.

"Oh," thought the armadillo, "Oh how I wish I could sing."

The armadillo would creep to the edge of the water and watch the frogs leaping and swimming in a frantic green ballet, and they would call back and forth, back and forth in beautiful, musical tones. He loved to listen to the music they made as they spoke, though he didn't understand their words; which was just as well - for the frogs were laughing at this funny animal that wanted so badly to sing like a frog.

"Don't be ridiculous," sang the frogs as they played. "Armadillos can't sing."

Then one day a family of crickets moved into a new house near the armadillo, and he was amazed to hear them chirp and sing as merrily as the frogs. He would creep next to their house and listen and listen all day, all night for their musical sounds.

"Oh," sighed the armadillo, "Oh how I wish I could sing."

"Don't be ridiculous," sang the crickets in their dulcet tones. "Armadillos can't sing."

But the armadillo could not understand their language, and so he just sighed with longing and listened to their beautiful voices laughing at him.

Then one day a man came down the road carrying a cage full of canaries. They were chirping and flittering and singing songs that were more beautiful even than those of the crickets and the frogs. The armadillo was entranced. He followed the man with the cage down the road as fast as his little legs would carry him, listening to the canaries singing.

"Oh," gasped the armadillo, "Oh how I wish I could sing."

Inside the cage, the canaries twittered and giggled.

"Don't be ridiculous," sang the canaries as they flapped about. "Armadillos can't sing."

The poor tired armadillo couldn't keep up with the man and the cage, and finally he fell exhausted at the door of the great wizard who lived in the area. Realizing where he was, the armadillo decided to beg a boon of the man.

Timidly, the armadillo approached the wizard, who was sitting in front of his house and said: "Great wizard, it is my deepest desire to learn to sing like the frogs and the crickets and the canaries."

The wizard's lips twitched a little in amusement, for who had ever heard of an armadillo that could sing. But he realized that the little animal was serious. He bent low to the ground and looked the creature in the eye.

"I can make you sing, little armadillo," he said. "But you do not want to pay the price, for it will mean your death."

"You mean if I die I will be able to sing?" asked the armadillo in amazement.

"Yes, this is so," said the wizard.

"Then I want to die right now!" said the armadillo. "I would do anything to be able to sing!"

The wizard and the armadillo discussed the matter for many hours, for the wizard was reluctant to take the life of such a fine armadillo. But the creature insisted, and so the wizard finally killed the armadillo, made a wonderful musical instrument from his shell, and gave it to the finest musician in the town to play.

Sometimes the musician would play his instrument by the pond where the frogs lived, and they would stare at him with big eyes and say: "Ai! Ai! The armadillo has learned to sing."

Sometimes the musician would play his instrument by the house where the crickets lived, and they would creep outside to stare at him with big eyes and say: "Ai! Ai! The armadillo has learned to sing."

And often the musician would visit the home of his friend who owned the cage full of canaries - who was also

a musician - and the two men would play their instruments together while the little birds watched with fluttering wings and twittered in amazement: "Ai! Ai! The armadillo has learned to sing."

And so it was. The armadillo had learned to sing at last, and his voice was the finest in the land. But like the very best musicians in the world, the armadillo sacrificed his Life for his Art.

Flags of the Countries of South America.

Christ the Redeemer of the Andes, Chile – Argentina border – Located at 3,832 metres (12,572 ft) above sea level in the Andes, on the highest point of the old road between the Argentinian city of Mendoza and the Chilean city of Santiago, right on the border between the two countries. This beautiful statue was unveiled in 1904 to mark the peaceful resolution of a border dispute between Argentina and Chile

 Foi também selecionado para participar do CineEco 2009 -- XV Festival Internacional de Cinema e Vídeo de Ambiente da Serra da Estrela, em Portugal, e participou ainda do Green Unplugged Festival, festival internacional de cinema realizado no site www.cultureunplugged.com, em 2011.