Since tomorrow is Good Friday('Vendredi Saint' in France)............ Have a nice time...............! Passez des bonnes moments!

I found this article on my Google Drive today - it goes back to 2006 or so, when I was due to go into hospital for a heart bypass operation. The procedure of 'stents' to widen the arteries had been done 3 or 4 times with limited success, and so a bypass was deemed necessary. Frankly I wasn't particularly bothered - yes, I was feeling more and more weaker, but I was also more and more older! Since the hospital at /nimes could not do these operations at the time, I had to go to Montpellier, by paid taxi of course. But I thought I owed it to myself and the Health Insurance to try my own test! A bit like this....... Well, I'm afraid I may have some bad news for some of you! Yesterday, I put my pen-ultimate test into operation, and passed! You see, whilst not mocking or disbelieving Doctors, Surgeons,Politicians, I have always worked on the basis of testing myself to standards laid down by myself! Having passed the last 15 or so years, in trying to find ...

Well - basically, since I live in France , it means: “ Pâques ”....... http://www.frenchmoments.eu/easter-traditions-in-france-paques-en-france/   You can find lots of information here. A lot of people, non- French speaking , don't know this, although they do know the word ' Pascale ', as a name or as in 'lamb pascale'  it's another word in French that has an accent, which means that the original has been 'adapted', in this case the accent over the 'a' represents - originally- an 's' (which it often does in latin based languages). The French are - like the Spanish , Italians  and others, inclined to only celebrate the ' festival days ' (ie when they don't work) in this case Monday! Good Friday doesn't really exist, and even the Easter Sunday is only important for the religious people, even the Supermarkets are open to buy forgotten things like this!  ...... So far as other traditions are concerned, there are m...

Well - I do my best, and I don't really think it sucks, but I had a strange experience recently. I received a mail from something which will remain A. Nony. Mouse claiming to represent his client who shall also remain A. Nony. Mouse! This client, a bank, had requested that a link to his Bank be removed from an article on my blog.   Since I make a point of promising to review any requests of this nature, I checked through, which took me quite some time and didn't please me  but I finally found the link, which had come, in fact, from the programme ' Zemanta ' which searches subjects and photos as you type, and they are inserted as above, in blue or orange......OK - no problem, I simply took the link off, but WHY should a well known Bank have an agent who occupies himself uniquely with little known blogs like mine? All very strange particularly since ' Wikipaedia ' shows a link and a page about this bank! OK - so I'm happy to have had 40,000 visitors, b...

Mr. le Marquis du Galipot (iwmpop) iwmpop@gmail.com For your pleasure! - Pour votre plaisir! - Fur Ihrer Unterhaltung! Dictators and other maniacs ! In light of recent events in Pakistan and elsewhere, it seems that these Dictator style maniacs just never learn, or they have learnt, and have now just accepted that the eventual inevitable fall from the top can be cushioned, very favourably, by making the necessary financial arrangements whilst at the top? It is otherwise difficult to explain why – since Hitler – there have been so many of them, all disappeared, all gone, and with them, enormous sums of money given, generally, as “ Foreign Aid ”! Let’s be honest, if you know you will (not that you risk , but as a certainty , YOU WILL) be chased out of whatever situation you have created, or even killed, it is to be presumed that you have some form of contingency plan , for yourself-your family-your “friends” etc.. for afterwards!...

 Yippee, soon it's voting time here in France . Local Elections and later (I think) European ones. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party, but which one? The Socialists   are out every Saturday at the market, giving away red roses, but only to the women....that's discrimination! Why can't I have one...? I've got one of these   but I want a rose... In any case, the ladies only eat them..... In France there are quite a number of parties, in fact almost as many as cheeses produced   but only one gives something away! Maybe a lump of cheese COULD sway my judgement.....with a piece of bread, of course. Women in politics in France probably started with this one (Marianne) but there have been a few since then!  Nowadays she adorns the basic French postal stamp.  Here are relatively up to date stats, and this tells a lot more   Thing is - it scares the hell out of other women like wives, as well as male pol...