One of London's 'Commons' Carrying on with my little series about London, a City but also very much a collection of villages which I enjoyed living in, working in, getting married in, and finally "'leavin'", I just wanted to touch on those places which London has so many of......'The Commons' - rather akin to Public Parks, but immense in size and in every 'village'.... A bit of their history is here: http://www.graftingardeners.co.uk/history-londons-commons/ and some are used by the well known  London Buses. Some are criss-crossed by main roads, some have public golf courses, some have tennis courts, both in concrete and in grass.... The special thing about these 'Commons' is their size....They are immense. In pure ground value they must be worth billions of billions of pounds sterling, and yet there is rarely any attack made on their status. It is rather astounding! Just for the record, there is another, ...

I first   'hit' Meze in the Hérault, France around 1967. Together with my wife, we were under way to the Southern France beaches as always in our '2-week-a-month' break!   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A8ze Have a look at the link above...... We normally went to a place called the Grau d'Agde, a place I knew from my British Army days, we could always get parking places right next to the beach wall, with a Restaurant around 100 metres away for lunch and evening pleasures, but this time we were looking for somewhere more 'permanent, and we just happened to come through Meze.   The main road, the N3, I think, takes an almost right angular bend in this small town, always interesting to watch, with the large boats being transported try to get around this obstacle! We decided to try the Camp Site we passed, at Meze, called 'Beau Rivage' and see what happened.  We needed a permanent place although only using it for 2 weeks ...

Many years ago, I lived in London, England. I went to school there, I went to work there, and later in life I returned to work there again. Battersea Grammar School Abbotswood Road , Streatham. 1936 - 1977 The period I'm talking about here, is in the 60's - 70's and London was very much a Village, or more - a collection of Villages held together with a lot of Traditional things for those privileged. As a Scotsman, I should not have been privileged, but the School I had gone to made me so, and the fact that I was a member of the 'Old Boys Society' (called 'The Old Grammarians') cemented these privileges firmly. http://www.oldgrammarians.org.uk/cgi-bin/index2.asp Later, when We left Britain for Europe, nobody in this Association could understand! Germany, France? No....no.....no.....no.... you can't do that, particularly not those two countries! We were almost 'struck off'......! On their site, I find no reference at all to myself despite...

https://www.facebook.com/IncroyableFR/videos/1400270516695040/ I found this on our thieving neighbour's Facebook page....sent by a 'friend' to her! It's in French. She has obviously not been telling the truth to them either! She is a thief, she confessed to the Police....I only spoke to the Police - nobody else until she was charged. I then did inform other neighbours and friends of the situation. Imagine that the 'old man' in the story did not make it all up, imagine the 'young man' mentioned was a female, imagine that She confessed to being a thief, imagine that she didn't even turn up to the 1st court hearing....Well, don't imagine it - THAT is exactly the situation, right now. 2nd Court hearing is around the 14th June 2017 - she probably won't turn up then either..... I've no idea what happens then, but I do know that the Insurance want their money back - from her! We've been refunded but I have promised to inform the I...

As you are probably aware, after such a long period of looking at my images, reading my words (for which I thank you all profoundly), health and age have not crept up upon me, they have more taken charge of me! I am a convinced and confirmed European, as most of you are aware, and on this day, when new things are happening in Europe - the change in France of an era, voting in Germany in NRW (Nord-Rhine Westfalen), a New President in France, it seems appropriate, to me, to take stock of my personal affairs - so far as I can, in the hope that the situation elsewhere in this World can be arranged, particularly in the USA where total chaos reigns. Firstly to arrange my Weblogs - they will be appearing less frequently, to allow me the time to concentrate on my 'Autobiography'. They may still be simply 'updated'. So long as the Internet exists, they will be available. Finally, but most importantly, I must try to arrange the situation with my Companion, Tina Concetta Mar...

The rewards may be great, but you do have to do something to get them in spite of what people think. Politicians probably work hardest to get the power to cheat us all than at any other point of their stay. Sometimes - it goes wrong:    http://www.francetvinfo.fr/elections/presidentielle/carte-ces-56-communes-ou-marine-le-pen-n-a-fait-aucune-voix_2159674.html In any case, we will now all have the delights of 2 weeks non-stop TV & Radio coverage, insults on Facebook and Twitter, with the peanut man in Washington lending them all a helping hand. My personal position is simple...... I haven't got one.......! In the main, I'm not allowed to vote anywhere and if I could then the only politician halfway qualified correctly and humanely, worldwide, is Mrs (Frau) ANGELA MERKEL     -       She is also the only person internationally to have understood that the person masquerading as American President at this moment is gravely ill - mentally. Th...

Chez mr.le Marquis du Galipot.: Nero fiddled Syndrome...... : not quite fiddling! You all have heard this quote - 'Nero fiddled whilst Rome burned'..... Well, I have a theory which brings i...

not quite fiddling! You all have heard this quote - 'Nero fiddled whilst Rome burned'..... Well, I have a theory which brings it 'bang up to date'..... Since last year, when I heard the name/word 'Trump' in the sense of an American Politician, I've been looking for some kind of explication of his phenomenon, and I think I've found it.   In the beginning, over a couple of glasses of Scotch whisky, in the bar of his own personal Scottish golf club, talk got around to Politics, rather like poor people talk about winning the Lotto or the Pools. What would you do if........? Mr Trump, a declared Bankrupt on 5 occasions, took his time, and finally said.... 'If I became President of The United States of America, I would have a ball of a time, so long as they let me!' He continued, at length, to say that these 'damned politicians were all WEAK THINGS, with no intelligence.'  They required a good shake up....... Time...