Things you wish you had never started....

Many Moons ago, at high school I learned to make origami peace cranes.

Last week, in an attempt to cheer up a small child at school, I made a peace crane and showed the child how to pull gently on its tail to flap its wings.

Worked a treat.

Sadly my success backfired since then I seem to have spent a ridiculous amount of time making gazillions of them for everyone else.

I have reproduced the story of the peace crane below


"The origami crane has become an international symbol of peace, a Peace Crane, through the sad but inspiring life story of a young Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki.

Sadako was soon diagnosed with Leukemia, which people in Japan called "the
atom bomb" disease. In February she entered the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital.

In August, while in the hospital, she was shown colourful paper cranes and told an old Japanese legend, which said that anyone who folds a thousand paper cranes would be granted a wish. Sadako hoped that by folding the paper cranes she would get well again. So she began making the cranes and
completed over 1000 of them before dying on October 25, 1955 at the age of twelve. While making the cranes she also wished and helped towards
world peace.

Her classmates felt deeply sad to lose their dear friend. They discussed what they could do for her, and came up with the idea of building a monument to Sadako and all the children killed by the atom bomb. Young people all over Japan helped collect money for the project. In 1958, a statue of Sadako
holding a golden crane was unveiled in Hiroshima Peace Park.

Since then people all over the world fold paper cranes and send them to the Sadako's monument in Hiroshima, in memory of Sadako and all children killed through wars."