2016......l’année de merde - Crap year for everyone- Just a few things that happened.......... Started with a hospital stay due to Cardiac complications. Carried on with just about every aspect of life - stolen Bank Cards (3 in total) illegal withdrawals to a total of 1,200 euros. Visits to places we would/should NEVER have to go like the Gendarmes, Hospital, operating rooms because of stomach ulcers caused by heart medicines...Post office closed for months for 'renovation' had to go  15 kilometre & back to send registered letter, postperson changed (according to the Post office) twice in one month....still no mail arrived - for anyone in the building! A complaint by myself made in September was answered by letter in November....! The clearing centre was burned down - still mail before and after the event didn't arrive! In any case our mailbox decided not to open with the key, and the landlady still hasn't responded to our request to change it or I'll break i

Put the music on whilst you read.......click below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nd8OxBZMdc It's December, a 'festive' month. We've finally got that terrible, torrid and dead month of November behind us and we can try to repair the damage and attempt to enjouy Christmas and the New Year entry to what hopefully will be a better year.....2017. I recall, many years ago     that this period was the one and only time I got to see the outside of our 'Manse' at night time. I say 'Manse' because our Father was, at the time, a Minister of Religion in a rather strict Methodist church in a place called Bolton, in the NW of England, and we were allowed no Television, no cinema visits, at the fall of darkness we had to be inside the manse.....(A Manse - for those uneducated amongst you is a building put at the disposal of a Minister and his family free of charge) As I recall, my Father earned around 7 shillings and 6 pence per week and we got some free w