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obituary (taken from the Church of the Nazarene report)

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Mrs Elizabeth (Bessie) W. Mitchell went to be with the Lord on 23rd November 2010. Originally from Glasgow , Bessie Mitchell shared with her late husband Rev Dr T. Crichton Mitchell (who died August 1996), in pastoral assignments in Paisley , Bolton 1st, & London Thomas Memorial, and in Nazarene Colleges in Switzerland , Manchester , & Colorado Springs , USA . Funeral services were held in High Blantyre on 10th December.Mrs Elizabeth (Bessie) W. Mitchell went to be with the Lord on 23rd November 2010. She was 93 and had been in care for a number of years. On this, the 1st November 2013, an obituary.

a tribute

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The 1st of November , every year, is the day that Central Europeans pay their respects and thanks to departed members of their families and communities. It is called " All Saints Day " and is not restricted to one, or indeed to any particular religious belief or creed....... Ian W. Mitchell  -   Vauvert, France   -   November 2013  
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I remember some (a good many, in fact - maybe even too many) years ago, there was a TV Programme which I picked up on BFBS in Germany television, something about comedians, the stand-up types, and one of the comedians amused me greatly as he declared, in his strongly Bradford accentuated voice: "Tired, but happy, we wended our weary way back - from the beach"! What made it even more amusing was this accent together with the colour of the comedian's skin, he was from the West Indies or somewhere like that, certainly not Bradford! Nowadays, it is still the truth, for many people, and a lot of them are here in my area of France at the moment. I've never really been a beach man, but from time to time (a maximum of twice a season, if I can't avoid it) I'm obliged to present my lovely physical features (the Cap d'Agde is the world's largest nudist beach area, over 40,000 - every day - every year) to the greater public, for their greater pleas

Forwards then backwards to go forward again.....!

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 Today's news was the return in Britain and Europe and the USA of a disease I thougt was all but gone.... http://www.medicinenet.com/rickets/article.htm  except possibly in under developed countries . I recall as a kid at school, we were supplied, free of charge with various items, some I liked some I didn't.....the orange juice was excellent, the cod liver oil frankly quite disgusting,looked like frogspawn , but was supposed to be good for us ...... Cod liver oil capsules - Supplements for the body (Photo credit: MyDigitalSLR ) http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-1040-COD%20LIVER%20OIL.aspx?activeIngredientId=1040&activeIngredientName=COD%20LIVER%20OIL and the milk in small bottles (if we ever got it, because parents and adults needed it for their tea)  Of course, in Scotland, the cream lifted the foil up off the milk and froze everything in Winter, and at other times of the year, the birds came and picked at the capsules to drink the cream ...

from hospital - unpublished.....

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from hospital ...... Hospital (Photo credit: José Goulão ) It’s a fact that when you’re lying around – particularly in a hospital bed, - you ask yourself how you could have got here. When you’re aware, also, that you had and still have, many thoughts and ideas for the future both of yourself and the person you love, it does become extremely difficult to “stay calm” – particularly when you feel just great, if tired and weary of needles being stuck in you! When you reach a stage that the very hospital you are in has almost run out of ideas, then you start wondering where you’re going! Once again I’m lying here, waiting for the visit from some “specialist” vascular – from the Neurovascular Department. I seem to spend an awful lot of time just lying here – waiting! Be it for breakfast, lunch, dinner or a doctor, (sometimes Tina Concetta) – I spend more than half of the little time I have left just waiting! And it gets annoying…..!” English: infusion bags (Photo credit:

a year already.

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  Guess what - yep, a whole year has almost gone round, already!  http://www.halloweenhistory.org/  Not celebrated a great deal in France , except in those areas where many 'ex-pats' are to be found, I can happily do without it! I recall as a 'wee bairn' in Scotland , even my parents, Ministers of Religon in a very strict Protestant/Evangelical 'caste' permitted and took part in, celebrations within the Church premises, with pumpkins, apple 'dunking' various other traditional stuff, which even then I found to be stupid! I think the real thing about Halloween is to be found here: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Facts_about_the_day_of_the_dead Only when I left those hallowed shores with the white cliffs...did I find out all about 1 November - in UK ' All Saints Day ' and in Europe too, except mainly in Europe this is a Religious festival - secular only in the sense that the graves are cleaned and chrysanthemums (mainly) - to be bought outside the ce

Medicines.......

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 When you have to start taking medecines , it's just as well to figure out through your Doctor, but also by yourself, something about what you are pumping into yourself...! Well, I have something like 36 pills daily to take (!)   ( Warfarin ) - these two are only a couple of them, but these two are giving a few problems....the first one you can read about here...... http://bidocs.boehringer-ingelheim.com/BIWebAccess/ViewServlet.ser?docBase=renetnt&folderPath=/Prescribing+Information/PIs/Pradaxa/Patient+Info/PradaxaMedGuide.pdf   .... the second one, in comparison to the first, read here: 3 mg (blue), 5 mg (pink) and 1 mg (brown) warfarin tablets (UK colours) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) https://www.pradaxa.com/what-is-pradaxa/pradaxa-vs-warfarin.html It is obvious which one is more convenient, but also the unsafest.....! Generic regular strength enteric coated 325mg aspirin tablets, distributed by Target Corporation. The orange tablets are imprinted in black with "