So - it's 10 years ago today? Not for me. For me it's 15 years and more! I've been watching the events on the 10th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and I've been listening to the "expert" opinions of "why" this outward expression of sentiments. I think that it is simply a mixture of people who have never been touched by personal tragedy, and people who have. You see, at birth, one cannot choose one's parents, nor into what type of family one is born. Whether sentiments of care, of love are present or not is beyond your control. Did your parents have more a son or a daughter in mind, and got the reverse? Was the mentality of your parents such that affections had to be covered, was it a necessity to show the British "no sentimentality" feature - or whatever. You didn't choose the situation, and you had to make the best you could out of it, allowing for all possibilities. On the other hand, when you married, thi...

Funny StumbleUpon Experience Shaun Low Just to brighten up your day! What? You don't need it? Lucky you - I do!

Grosse Grosse Colère - Forum JustNeuf Et voila! J'ai trouve le "Forum" qu'il fallait! Si vous avez des problemes avec Neuf/Cegetel=AOL, cliquez sur le lien et regarder les faits- surfer sur cette forum! Ca fait peur!

Depressed and Depressive   One is warned, if one looks. On all the websites dealing with surgical matters in general, and in my case with cardiac problems and operations, in particular, it is always listed as a “condition to be expected” after surgery.   On almost all of the little bits of paper which accompany the pills and other medicaments, it is shown as “undesirable syndromes” Depression.   Not something I’ve had reason to deal with before in my life, but I have to deal with now, and I can assure you that it is quite difficult. The very fact that it is to be expected and to be aware of that, does help – but it is still a strange sensation. It happens that I will be sitting at table, eating or watching the TV (or both) and suddenly I sort of “wake up” and maybe 5 or 10 minutes will have passed, during which time all I can recall is having questioned myself, time and time again, “ what purpose all this su...

Help......? You're more of a hindrance.....! Civil.....? Servant.....? It's all a joke, but not too amusing....! Some time back, I started an epic task - getting a new passport from the British Authorities, at Marseilles, France, the Consulate responsible for my Area. Now, having been a Civil Servant myself, I know all about the mentality of said "Civil Servants" - They are generally neither "civil" nor "servants", but this time was a real goody, and I'd like to partage a few of the (up to date) events with you. This epic task is far from being finished, ie - I haven't yet got my new (and hopefully last) Passport, but I'll take the risk of arousing the wrath of those so "civil" servants of the British people, both at home and abroad. Basically, it all started with a simple email, asking for the necessary details, like the application form, instructions prices, addresses to send the completed application to. Some days l...

This is a scan of a letter I received from the so called Mediateur (ombudsman) who occupies himself (in France) with Telecommuicational problems, such as the ones I have been having since February 2007, with the Company Neuf/Cegetel=AOL, in France. Here he tells me that he has taken up the case, but I must expect (the laws of France) that a period of 3 months can be expected before Neuf will be obliged to reply and/or take action. OK - I posted the problem onto various Internet Forums/Groups, and I have received around 125 replies!! The problem seems to be rather large! I hope, by posting this onto my personal Blog, to possibly activate others, particularly in France (although it would interest me to know of similar problems from other necks of the wood). LET ME KNOW at iwmpop@gmail.com if you have or are having problems of a similar nature, doesn't matter what country or what operator. It may seem like a "little" revolution, but when International Companies treat the cl...

Votre ami(e), iwmpop@gmail.com, vous a envoyé la vidéo suivante à partir de Google Video : Vauvert-Fête du Village Août 2007 3 mn 32 s - 17 août 2007 Description :  Aux arènes pendant la fête. Vous voulez voir d'autres vidéos sympa ? Accédez au site video.google.fr/?hl=fr Vous avez une vidéo encore plus sympa ? Ajoutez-la au site video.google.fr/videouploadform?hl=fr Si vous ne parvenez pas à visionner la vidéo, copiez l'URL suivante dans votre navigateur : http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=-43926215216652622&pr=goog-sl&hl=fr

Having changed various things (perforce) on the PC, a trial imposes itself, so here it is! A wallpaper should be seeable (?) Now there should be a change in typeface, so adored by some of my contacts - This one is Edwardian Script ITC in BOLD and at 18 points -I find it a little difficult to read, but could be  used for Jack the Ripper articles! A change in colour should be tested as well, and if I'm not boring you too much, then let's make it BIG (that means "big") You see, practice makes perfect (I find this size better - 24points - for this script). I suppose I'll just have to keep on practising! http://www.webspawner.com/users/mrlemarquis/index.html

CAN YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE? These are all examples from the Clip Art Site, free of charge on the Internet! All usable on all sites, since they are all JPG or JPEG images! There are literally 10's of thousands of them! Used with Google's "broadsheet programme" it's great!(It's also European!) Microsoft word, which only costs a couple of hundred $/Euros, including clip art, but not usable in all situations, actually has FEWER illustrations! So there you are! I know what I'll be using in future! ********************************************** The following two posts are really trials! Interesting snippets as well, but trials nonetheless. The one where you see NO images, is a trial from Windows/Microsoft Word, using the "clip Art" files. Doesn't work, as you can see, and who is surprised? After all to allow people to use one of their magical programmes with a programme from Arch rivals Google, would be a mortal sin!...

Puff-puff! Here’s another snippet gleaned (I’ve come to like that word) from the same magazine as always! “A long battle is finished! The giant “Imperial Tobacco Group” from Britain , 4 th biggest in the world, has finally won its take-over bid for “Altadis” a French/Spanish tobacco group, responsible for such brands as Gauloise, Gitanes and other well known brands. 13 Milliards of Euros was offered and finally accepted, after 3 years of discussions. Wonder how many people died in between time? Interesting only from the point of view that “Altadis” was, in part, owned by the French Government as “Seitas” – The question is whether they could do without it, on the basis that they were taking so much in with Tobacco taxes, or did the Politicians REALLY have a moral problem? “Imperial Tobacco” is, I think, privately owned, although the UK Government most likely have a part, but in any case, th...

Just a little snippet, gleaned from the Magazine "L'Observateur" Scotsmen/women are mean, everybody knows that, and I'm no exception! Here I am using only FREE things on my PC, and on the Internet! Things that work as well as, if indeed not better, than the paid version! I don't think that's meanness, I think it's called intelligence! As the Germans say "Not macht Erfinderisch" (lack of things makes you inventive!) How then to explain the following madness, and that from a Scotsman! "The richest Scotsman, Tom Hunter, who started life as a sports shoe salesman, selling from the back of a lorry,and who advanced to being the head of his own sports article chain stores, has promised, legally, to make a donation of 1 milliard GBPounds Sterling (about 1,000,480,000,000 euros) during his lifetime (ie before death) to Charitable causes!" How come I never met the man? He could have sorted out my little problem in about 10 seconds, and...

Now hear this! For ages now, I've been suffering, like a lot of others, from PC Blues! On one of my PC's, things just didn't want to run right, from not loading pages or taking an age to do so, to even being unable to scroll with the mouse, just kept blocking! Before I got to the point of this I tried reformatting ,reinstalling (keeping my old settings) and just seemed to be getting nowhere! Since it was only happening on one of my 2 PC's, I figured that it couldn't be the Internet Provider (who is at fault for a lot of other things) but must come from a programme or setting on the particular PC in question. Since I've been hearing horror stories from many sides, over years, and all having something to do with AOL, I concentrated on that aspect, and I think I may have found something that I certainly wasn't aware of. Did you know that whilst using Windows, MSN automatically installs its own Browser called "MSN Explorer", whether you use it or not...

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Translation of Turkish airline regulations As the holiday period reaches slowly it's end (some may say "Thank Gawd!), and having been presented once again with the unholy capabilities of Tourists NOT to speak the language, I thought this little link to a "vivid" translation into English would say a lot! It's almost, not quite, but almost, as bad as the various "reanslation" machines available on the WWW. Lazy way to not use a language, these things can get you into more trouble than you may beleive!

This is what is happening to the old camp site "Le Galipot". Buying a couple of the 39 2 bedroom houses? What happened, I wonder, to the "protected land" policy, or did a few backhanders change between grubby little dealers? New Build Developments across France - VEF French Property Mas des Cigales Site: Mas des Cigales Region: Languedoc Roussillon Department Hérault Locality Castries Standard ...