If only you could do this, instead of this.....  life would be easier....you'd know where everything is, and wouldn't spend the next 2 years looking for things which are of no use anyway! Yes, the joys of moving house.....we are in the middle of it, and so half of our possessions are in the new place, the other half in the old place.....and that in the month of August and at the start of the 2 week long village fête! It's hot, it's long, it's difficult....! Furniture has to be bought and delivered and installed.....one long story of looking, measuring,  then you need a plumber, because the existing water points are no good for fridges that make ice cubes, or machines that wash dishes.....  ok - if they only came as quickly as this guy, but it's August - the main holiday month - and he's probably sitting in his car, with his family, wishing he was under OUR sink   or is thinking out NEW transport methods.......  in any case, he isn't where he should...

Although the whole thing doesn't really concern me too much, being Central Europe based for health, social and pension questions, I think I should say a few words about the situation coming up shortly in Scotland , my country of birth. Scotland is a rich country which has been exploited for centuries, mainly by the English . We have smoked salmon , fresh salmon and fishery products in enormous quantities - we have oil - we have whisky - wool and textiles- we have many other products of 'de luxe' and we EXPORT........  a very important part of every countries economy. Last night there was a TV debate between 2 candidates, leading ones, and a point was made about the € and the GBPound. The point was made by the Scottish representative that the GBPound is just as Scottish at the moment as English, something not accepted by the other person! Personally I think that in the case of Scotland voting for Independance , then the € should be adopted. Just because the English ...

http://www.amazon.com/ Pompeii .../dp/B00KPJT282/ref=sr_1_1 Order it now and you'll have it for the beach time....or, of course, you can pop down to Naples and see it for yourself, hoping it won't erupt again  while you're there! Vesuvius is the only volcano in the European mainland that erupted in historical times. This volcano  is currently under a temporary sleep by more than six decades, but scientists warn that the next big eruption could be as big as that one in AD 79 , which buried the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and killed roughly 16,000 people. The crater is 1280m tall and located just 20km (12 miles) away from Naples, Italy 's third largest city. But today, the population living around the volcano is about 3 million; at least 300,000 of those living nearby would be killed by the next eruption if not evacuated beforehand, according to the first three-dimensional computer simulation of an eruption. Read More:  http://news.softpedia.com/n...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day Shop open 1 may.......  Satanism....Sexual....whatever...the fact is that on the 1st May, wherever it's celebrated as May Day or Labour Day, 'Fete du Travaille'.....or whatever - it's one day that most people do not work on!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_France   Here in France where holidays are quite plentiful, but rarely respected (ie the Shops are almost always open) this day is one of the few that allow the shops to close at Midday, but not all of them! One of the French traditions was, and still is, a 'Muguet'.......... ' France [ edit ] On May 1, 1561, King   Charles IX of France   received a   lily of the valley   as a lucky charm. He decided to offer a   lily of the valley   each year to the ladies of the court. At the beginning of the 20th century, it became custom to give a sprig of lily of the valley, a symbol of springtime, on May 1. The government permits individual...

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 ...