Well, Blogger seems to have picked itself up a little, since I changed the template style. Still can't use most of the normal things, but maybe that's my fault! Isuspect I have a problem of "changing security settings" and/or "DirectX" settings, 'cos I can't get into anything from MSN either, like my Hotmail Account or simply MSN Home! People complain that MSN invades their PC, well, all they have to do is whatever I appear to have done - god knows what - and everything is hunky-dory! Except that I can't go to my bank on-line either - and that is a little tedious. There's not a lot on the bank online, and what there is seems always to be preceded with a "-", but it does (or did) tell me when a pension had arrived! Never mind, maybe some day I'll pass command for the most luxurious and up to date thing on the market, and (I GUARANTEE YOU) I'll have exactly the same problems! I like using the things I have, they are not for ...

Take this one guys and galls! I ain't givin' up - try clicking onto this (or retype it all in your address block - it only takes 2 hours!) Go on, chippie give it a go! It's called an URL, which I reckon means (in plain English):Urine Related Longevity! Good job they didn't call it a FPITA! http://195.141.38.28/abcd/pick.asp?id=tovyhigm0ztjawme14gzljlmuJ101322 That's all folks! Why didn't it go all funny colours this URL address? Anyway- have a nice F1 on Sunday!

Hope you all like my new style! I find the colours quite nice, and the "template" is called "Scribe" (definition: a writing slave - just like me!) Sod 'em all - they don't want me to publish my fotos or my smiley's - OK!! But they'll have to put up with even more drivel from me than usual!! Tell you what - I'm going to try something else - maybe if you click on the link which SHOULD come up, you'll be able to see something different, like a photo!! Let me know! I hope something happens - it took me hours to copy down the URL and type it in!! (If it works, I'll be content - beaten the buggers again at their own game!!)

Chez mr.le Marquis du Galipot.

I was sitting there, last night, as is my whim, in front of a screen which does not inspire me at the moment, and having "zapped" through all 469 TV channels I have access to, I was obliged to admit that my monthly subscription charges were wasted, at least for that evening. This does happen quite often, and then I am obliged to actually give my attention to those channels I normally would never watch (which I am watching more frequently than ever - if you follow me) and lo - behold - something different, joyful, comical, interesting: Comets and us! I said "COMETS" not "comics", chippie, things that fall down (or up - nobody cleared this point) from the sky, and not those complicated books you read, containing balloons with the few written words supplied, surrounded by photos or drawings. Well, this programme gave birth to this blogspot. Everything seemed to "fit in" afterwards. Having found out that there are probably some 200,000,000 = 200...

: don't know what it means, but thank you all the same "boggers-centre" your message told me absolutely nothing new, gave me a link I have read at lest 10 times, helped me in 0.00000% to resolve my problem, and left me with an immense feeling of being in good hands when I request assistance! Never mind, the fact that none of my actual requests were dealt with, led me to the following blogspot, which I dedicate to you all at "Gooble". Just thank YOUR God that I can't publish the photos I would like to, as illustrations!

Another thing to put onto the list of "not working properly! After a torrid night of turning and turning, it would seem that mr le marquis is re-entering a period of "not too good under the ribs". Doesn't worry me unduly, but I'll have to try and figure out some sort of emergency plan for my Granite! Don't know how these things work here in France, but I guess I'll have to find out! Problems-problems! Never mind, the weather is sunny and HOT (circa 30C) and in spite of not feeling too good, I'm off to the garden. After all - if you're going to fall over, better to do it where there are other people!! I've found a nice photo for the Formula 1 this Sunday, but I don't know if Blog will take it!!

Not even "blog this" wants to know fully! Cut me off in full stream! Anyway, as I was saying:- Anyone out there who can tell me, in simple language, how to put my MS-DOS set up BACK to the original parameters, so I can use my bloody Boot disc? This would/may arrange a lot of current problems overall, to reformat C-disc, and start all over again!! Everything is breaking down at the moment, car battery on the blink, PC does what it wants, even the kitchen is not functioning as it should!! Just me and the cat, who in spite of the German/British/French government attacks on our finances, are trying to get on with it. I do wish, however, that they would ALL go and get stuffed, and leave us in peace. As E.Mercury sang, "This could be heaven for everyone" - unfortunately it ain't - only for some, mainly the crooks, villains and politicians (which covers almost everybody else, but especially dentists!!) Bank Managers who fall in all 3 categories. I could carry on, ...

Once again from "Blog This" and not "create post" (that means no smileys, folks) which doesn't want to work! Why it doesn't want to work but this one does is a matter for the Blooglers (as I have baptised those who work for Google at Blogger) but I haven't heard anything from them yet. I have amused myself in between by changing the layout (templeplate) but I don't like this one too much, so I'll probably change it again. Anyone out there capable of instructing me how to

No idea at all what is going on. Maybe tomorrow will sort the whole thing out! These PC's are great, they give you a buck up, and a kick in the teeth at the same time - not even a woman does that! Anyway - no more scintillating spots until I know for sure that SOMETHING works!! Love to be able to reformat - lose everything (I'm used to that) and - as the song says - START ALL OVER AGAIN (I'm always dusted off and I've always picked myself up - it's automatic reaction!! No smiley's to my utter disgust!!

Chez mr.le Marquis du Galipot. I've no idea what is going on - I've sent an e-mail to most people informing that I may be forced to close down the PC, and everything with, simply because of the problems I'm having. These problems are now going over to the Blog site, and I can't sort them out! I can't find the start of the blog (then I did - it's at the BOTTOM of the page!

You may see me and my Bank Manager! 

Go for a stroll down the main road in Monaco this Sunday! 

I guess all you rich buggars will be off on your travels this weekend again. Already Britbulldog and family are in CZ drinking all the good beer, and now, I suppose, we'll have to accept the presence of certain ones at the places shown in the photos shown (if my Picasa programme opens up in time to send this before Sunday!) Had to have another reformat, folks, and things are still not all right PC wise, but I'll make the bloody thing work for me and not the reverse!! Either that or it's fate is sealed, and the window upstairs wide open. Happy Prix on Sunday anyway, in case I can't send the photos. I won't be going myself, a slight "contre-temps" with my Bank Manager makes it necessary to hide myself for a while! Bank-manager Bank-manager is empty!! haven't got one! haven't got one either! nor one of them! (it's supposed to be a nickel or a dime!) Never mind - have a good time - until next week - tatty piddle.

As into my articles! 

You may ask (do you?) what the hell is this title? Well, over a long time - almost as long as I have bored you with blogs - I have made use of the facility to keep articles on "hold" in the section "draft". My only worry was, and is, that I wouldn't find someone, anyone, of sufficient integrity and knowledge, to push the button "publish", when the time was ripe. Well, this article is one which was held for a long time on "drafts", and I have found the ideal person to push the button - MYSELF! I hope it may make certain OTHER currents of air clear to the one or the other. There are other "drafts" in Pandora's Box/Aladdin's Cave, which may (or may not) be exposed some day or other. They all have one thing in common with this one - they are all things I've wanted to say for a long time, but never had the time! Drafts/Draughty/Drafty who the hell cares? Here we go: As a kid, in this life, I had little or no contact to so-ca...

Tinkerbelle. (see text below) 

If you'll look at the photos underneath this blog, you will understand my "down to the bone" feelings! As my wife used to say: "Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, I'm going into the corner to eat worms." (she never said it in reference to me, of course!) NOW (modern day), I can carry my mates around with me in my portable PC! Problem? I don't know if my mates would like me to do that, since my portable PC would also contain lots of photos of their "her indoors"!

And this one is for EVERYBODY (see following). 

This one is specially for my mate! 

I suppose the above tells it's own tale! MY Friday 13th starts generally on the Thursday 12th - something happens normally, that stops me from sleeping after midnight on the 12th, this year the receipt of a recommended letter (never a good sign!) which I couldn't collect until the morning of the Friday 13th!! What a godsent occasion for all those malevalent powers that be to use completely the Friday 13th power! A whole 15hours to think up some S**t for yours truly! Actually it was a credit card to replace the one running out, (good news) but the fact is that I have already used up to the limit, so the card ain't worth a lot for the moment (bad news)! I think, nonetheless, that I got away relatively lightly for a Fri 13th! A night's loss of sleep, anxious moments whilst opening the letter, not TOO much I think! I understand that this year, 2005, there is only ONE Fri 13th, and it's almost finished!! If I go to bed now!? No - I wouldn...

Since I moved into this small flat, some years ago, there has been an annual manifestation in the bedroom. Always around mid-May/start June, every year without fail, I have been awakened at around 3am by: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!! One, and one only, every year! Already full of my blood, I light up, and the great safari commences!! At the end of it, the poor creature is crushed on the wall, and I am busy washing the same place to erase the traces of the crime. Why does she still want to bother me when she is already full of my precious liquid? Daredevillish - and the price has been paid. Not only that, but as of the same night, all the modern instruments of mosquito mass destruction (MMD) are put into top gear. The outlook is bleak for her near and dear! At least - in my bedroom, bloodstreamed scene of the crime! the cat doesn't seem bothered!

Some guests near the end. 

The middle 

The start 

So there we are - Monday the 9th May and I'm still alive! Everything went off well, except the 80 people turned out to be 40, and the lady commanding had decided to save time, money, effort on serving the same meal twice, midday and evening (guests always stay for Midday and evening meal here). To avoid asking me to stay through until 9pm or later (which I wouldn't have done!!), she had simply doubled the number of guests in her request, and that was that! Tres Bourgoise !! Never mind! Except, there were one or two other little points not too "kosher" either! Firstly, a few invited guests were unable to attend at the lst minute - bringing the actual numbers down to around 30! 80 to 40 to 30 = LARGE PORTIONS LUNCH AND SUPPER!! Made no difference to me, but the last point DID! Madame - taking her role seriously, had informed me that she would supply the 8 chickens necessary from her own stock, owning as they do, a farm! Her husband would slaughter them - and they would...

And I'll sweat at a fire like this!