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Just keep trying.

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My wife Kathleen (nee Odell), was quite an exceptional woman. I suppose many husband's say the same thing of their wives, but through the 25 years of our marriage, up to her death 14 years ago today, I was constantly surprised by her resilience. We were often the only two "British" people in whole areas of Germany or France, and although unable, at the beginning, to speak the languages concerned very well, we learnt very quickly, and it's not easy when you have to deal with civil servants, speaking their own local dialect of German or French! My story with my wife started in 1963/64, when she found herself installed in Germany, as a condition to her being accepted by Guy's Hospital, London, to fulfill her 6 month's overseas "experience". Guy's insisted on this at the time, and it wasn't a bad idea, giving the ongoing State Registered Nurses a little more confidence in themselves. Not only 8 "O" levels, 6 "A" levels (good ...

Life can be almost anything.

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Mrs Kathleen Mitchell.  1947 - 1993 (3rd March 1947) Mrs Tina Concetta MARZOCCA, my current concubine shares my thoughts and reflections on my wife Kate (Kathleen) amongst others.

Just a few words.........

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Saturday, 4 February 2012 Juat a word...... Just a litte message for you...... For more than 3 months now, I've been meaning to let you know why there are few or indeed no articles coming out of the factory. As a result of extreme ill health, I have been suffering from various phsycological and cardiac problems. 4 stays in hospital haven't helped a great deal, and the medication I now have to take is rather powerful. It reminds me of those bad days just after being operated on for  cardiac bypass surgery , and it was impossible for me to construct anything intelligibible. This time we have to deal with " panic attacks " something I have never experienced before, but something which is extremely nasty, and involved the taking of strong  medicaments  and just hope they will have the effect required. Writing is imposssible, it takes hours just to correct the errors! If you have never heard of this, don't just wipe it off as " non-existent " -...

short break...

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Image via Wikipedia So...... here you go......All you people who want to experience the Garden of Eden (at least the Garden of Tina Concetta~) NO PERSONAL SERVICES ARE OFFERED......BUT THERE ARE ENOUGH YOUNG "Cowboys/Bullboys" in the area. and they all seem to have the same odour......leather - sweat and animalistical bestialities....................the mind boggles...............ADVANTAGE..........Neither of us is going to tell tales.........! In French or English - click on the flag.............. Special for you real hot blooded Bronxies............. http://www.camargue.fr/latabledesbaumelles/index.html  or those windy city boys and girlies.................. Related articles At the end was the beginning.....? (marquisdugalipot.blogspot.com)

Updates....?

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Exactly my feelings....."updating" is great if you can give some definate results, but I can't - not really! Yes, the medication problem is being addressed by the medicals, and it seems to be slowly getting me somewhere, but on the other hand all the changes need time to adapt to and to evaluate. For example - medication releives one problem but seems to create another one.....The "anxiety" treatment seems to work extremely well, but since taking the stuff I find myself feeling in an "unreal" world from time to time, and daily suffer from a sort of "numbness" in the fingers which only lasts a few minutes, but remains unexplained...! Well - no doubt I will have to continue requesting more information from the Doctors . They have been good, particularly my own Generalist a Dr. Cukier in Vauvert , and a Dr. Beck of the Cardiac Department of the CHU (Hospital) in Nimes . Everything and anything remotely connected with the heart or other ...

Bonnes Fêtes......Happy Festive Season

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Hey - Guess who........                     Figurez vous.............                             Bonnes Fetes     ......     Happy Christmas 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)

Can happen to you too.....

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 It's a matter of fact! Us big, hard men suffer just the same as those little frail female creatures from Panic, Stress and we are almost as prone to depressiveness as the female counterpart as well.  If you look at a simple explanation of " panic attacks " (here is a link to a relatively typical explanation)....  http://www.helpguide.org/mental/panic_disorder_anxiety_attack_symptom_treatment.htm  you will probably be struck, as I was, by the impressively long list of symptoms, all of which can be overlooked or simply ignored as "unimportant"......Well, they're not! After some 3 months of receiving all kinds of treatment and controls on my various ailments, heart, diabetic, it just seemed to me that there was something simple we (me and the specialists) had overlooked! Light dawned when my wife Tina Concetta took it upon herself to brave my rage, and show me what she had suffered from - many years before - during a "low" period in her life........

In the future.

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...It's a fact - things don't always go as you wish! Since November, I've been fighting along with various heart problems , and this is proving more difficult than anyone expected, Doctors or Patient. This now is a new situation dealing with  defibrilators (not pacemakers) and a new package of medicaments that should go  with them. Difficult to find the correct dosage and mixture, so I'm often having  small and large electro shocks which do save my life, but also leave me feeling  like death, and apart from the "Urgency" units where they put you on drips for a  few days then send you home, the only chance is trying the different  medicaments and dosage/mixture. This can lead to sickness (nausea) and worse.  I went this morning and they checked everything again but found nothing.  Probably  medicamental problem, so I'll have to persevere.  And I will........... just as long as I can! Added to the problems is th...

Broke....? Rubbish....!

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...To you all...."Happy New Year"! *************************** This is from one of my Facebook "friends"......I've been trying to get together with him to drink a beer, for years, but I had no vehicle! Maybe in 2012.........Peter Hornby is his name, and he has some interesting little factual things....like this: Image by Davide "Dodo" Oliva via Flickr Peter Hornby Happy Birthday Euro ? The Euro was launched on 1 January 2002, so is 10 years old tomorrow. Although today it is seen as overvalued by some, and a devaluation is expected, it has gained against the important currencies since it was launched. EUR:INR** 1-1-2002 : €1 =INR43.6749 31-12-2011 : €1=INR69.9494 Euro gain = 60% EUR:USD 1-1-2002 : €1=US$0.9394 31-12-2011 : €1=US$1.3184 Euro gain = 40% EUR:GBP 1-1-2002 : €1=£0.6351 31-12-2011 : €1=£0.8451 Euro gain = 33% EUR:CNY* 1-1-2002 : €1=CNY7.7757 31-12-2011 : €1=CNY8.6218 Euro gain = 11% EUR:SEK 1-1-2002 : €1=SEK8.885...

happy christmas.....

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From him......... ....and him...... not forgetting him as well....... Don't drink too much....... like this guy............. mr le marquis (iwmpop) - Vauvert, France - Decembre 2011

All in a single day......

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrPlFN7QR-A&feature=colike A Video from Google made from users videos world wide, all on the same day.....on  24 July 2010.... (In English and varied....with French subtitles.....) http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday?feature=inp-gh-lif Related articles Life in a Day Released on YouTube (wired.com) YouTube Gets Way More Social With Facebook, Google+ Integration (hubspot.com) YouTube New Look: What You Think? (famousbloggers.net) YouTube's new design is here (zdnet.com)