Each for Equal

I always blog for International Women's Day but this year instead of wading through statistics I'll give you this link.

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/03/267531/womens-day-change-morocco/


One of the themes for this year's IWD is female sportspeople  so here is a shout out for Nawal El Moutawakel




She is a board member of the IAAF having been a Vice-President of the IOC and Chair of the Co-ordination Commission for the Rio Games and served as Moroccan Minister for Sport. She originally came to international attention in1984 when she won the inaugural Womens 400m Hurdles at the Los Angeles Olympics.


                                                 

More room for prayer

There is a small square in the middle of the Arab Souk home to vegetable stalls and vendors of second hand furniture. We were intrigued in November when most of the buildings on one side were demolished and the stalls cleared out to accommodate mounds of earth from  pit being dug in their place. When we returned this year stalls had returned and construction was well under way.

 Beloved was convinced it was a sign of "progress" and that a shopping precinct was being constructed to replace market stalls.
When we went back the other day it had topped out and was clearly a mosque

.This is surprising as the is another mosque 50m away, one at 100m and two further mosques within 200m. Still it is good to know that traditional religion has not been replaced by the worship of Mammon.

The plasterers

Whilst we use our garage as a garage most people round here use them as some sort of business or workshop. the ones opposite have been used as garages and storage for a minibus and equipment for a children's charity and as a car wash. The car wash proprietor was very nice but it was extremely noisy particularly in the evening when we wanted to watch television so it was a bit of a relief when a competitor opened up round the corner and the business folded. It has since been empty but when we returned after xmas a new business had opened. It is a plaster workshop and had moved from smaller premises across the main road. Now they have a double garage and whilst one side just has sacks of plaster the other stocks all sorts of moulds for making  elaborate traditional cornices and stucco work.