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Just before.....

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Just before I return to my holidays, a couple of notes about the recent events in that land of plenty..."England's Green and Pleasant Land"...... ...... .....THE HAVE'S.......... .....WHO HAVE EVERYTHING.... and......... ..... ... THE HAVE NOT'S....... ....WHO HAVE NOTHING.... Not even their self-respect. Not, of course, a justification, but A REASON........which leads to.. AND........ No Satanic mills, no poverty..."In England's green and pleasant land......" And....there are still people who ask me why and how I could leave paradise so long ago.......!

It's 50 years ago...tomorrow.

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...I was on holiday, and then things happened, so - just like those poor Politician's - I came back to work! Tomorrow, the 13th August 2011, marks a day in history which had a profound influence on my own life, but particularly on the lives of millions of other people. ..Tomorrow it will be 50 years exactly, to the day, that "somebody" gave the order to build a wall surrounding and separating the Western power zones from the Eastern power zone in Berlin, Germany. "Somebody", because finally, nobody wanted to accept responsability...  but between themselves, the Eastern German "DDR", and the Russian occupying powers, did a job which lasted many, many years, and destroyed totally or partially, the lives of millions of people - on both sides of the monstrosity. Personally I was affected, in my own life by the presence of the Wall insofar as I started by having to patrol the thing, within the British Sector, and ended up "securising" both side...

May I....? Je peux....? Darf Ich....?

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 ...Once a year.......?    That's all... May I allow myself the luxury of a little time off? Une fois par an....? Pas plus......Est-ce que je peux me permettre quelques jours de vacances.......? Einmal im Jahr....?  Nicht mehr....Darf Ich Mich einige Tagen Urlaub erlauben.......? I'll be back in......Je sera de retour.....Ich werde wieder dar sein....... SEPTEMBER 2011 - SEPTEMBRE 2011 -     Bonne Vacances.....Have a nice time......Schonen Urlaubstagen         iwmpop (mrle marquis)      Google search-" iwmpop " - " mrlemarquis " http://www.marquisdugalipot.blogspot.com Facebook: Ian Mitchell -Twitter: Mr le Marquis ( iwmpop@gmail.com ) Tel: (+ 0033 4 3008 5056  (en France: 0430085056)

My Sporting Life....(2)

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....Well - apart from the girlie thing, I have played all of these sports, and then some. Some I played really well, and others.....well - we won't talk about them! Ice skating for example turned out to be NOT my cup of tea, I put so much effort into it and finally I was quicker just WALKING on the ice than skating! Basically my sports were those concerning a ball. I never had any interest in running or athletics, unless it was to chase a ball, or hit a ball with something.. As a kid, I found that I had particularly two advantages when playing soccer, I was naturally left-footed, and I could kick a ball rather hard for my size and age. This meant that the other little kids, particularly the goalkeepers, weren't up to stopping the ball kicked by myself, particularly directly from corner kicks. I could "bend 'em like Beckham" and kick them nice and high...obviously the goalkeepers - who were kids like myself - were too small to jump high enough....sort of cheatin...

Bankers,Lawyers,Brokers,Dentist and many more are all in there...

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 I suppose this little place is where my so-called "assets" are in hiding....! It really wouldn't be so bad if it was, although it doesn't look terribly secure to me, but I would just like to be informed of the fact! Having to deal with different systems of banking, in different countries and currencies world wide, I can assure you that ONE thing is always the same, no matter what currency and no matter what language.....it isn't the client who is going to be enriched or content with the "service" .....be it with this Institution who is nominally responsible for verifying the validity of a cheque, .......or this one, which is supposed to authorise the payment of the same but doesn't,  or takes so long  that you could almost get the impression they think you're going to forget.......or this one.....  which is supposed to inform me that a payment has arrived- finally- onto my Account but doesn't! Starting with the first one, I never wis...

Fwd: Security and stuff.....

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It's a shame that because of a few unscrupulous Companies and people life is made so difficult. When these spammers are found, it will be expensive for them....! That's a promise..! Dommage que la vie est rendu si difficile par quelques Compagnies et gens avec peu de scrupule. Une fois trouvée, cela va revenir très chère pour eux.....!  C'est promis! Schade das das leben so schwierig gemacht ist durch einige Gesellschaften und Leute ohne Skrupel. Wenn Sie ausfindig gemach worden sind wird das sehr teuer fur sie werden.....!         Versprochen!      
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My Sporting Life (1)

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 Part one - just a little introduction. ...Yes, my sporting life started early. As I recall, my first experiences were in the playground of the primary school in Paisley, Scotland which I had to get to by (unusually for Scotland) crossing the ground of "Kelburn Cricket Club", because it was the shortest way to get there, unusual because then as now, there is little cricket played in Scotland generally.  It was a favourite place with me on Weekends, listening to the clunk of leather on willow, and sometimes playing with toy bats and balls in the training nets! It was by crossing this thing that I could get to my school "Williamsborough Primary School" on time, and if I had any money at all (normally only on Mondays when I was supposed to pay the weekly school meals) then I'd stop off at a little shop run by a famous old St. Mirren and Rangers footballer - "Willie Waddle" - who sold a pound of "broken biscuits" at one half-penny a pound ba...