March 16th 2020 Corona …. Who amongst you remembers when the man with Corona was a welcome visitor up your street? I have vivid memories of Saturday mornings sat in the front window waiting for the Corona pop man pulling up and getting surrounded by kids, dragging their harassed mothers along to pay for the…
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Monday February 24th – Thursday 27th February 2020 Sunday 16th February saw me reach the ripe old age of 65, not so bad other than it didn’t come with an old age pension, which will have to wait until I’m 66. What was good though was that my daughters were here to help us celebrate.…
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A citizen of nowhere! February 1st 2020 and I woke up this morning with my citizenship of the European Union stripped away from me. To say I am heartbroken about this would be an understatement to say the least. I’ve heard all the arguments about how this was done democratically (it was but it wasn’t…
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Well Christmas 2019 came and went and now we’re in the New Year and for what we are about to receive may the Brexiteers amongst you own up for and shoulder the responsibility – you elected Johnson and now you will have to own the mess. More on this later I’m sure. I must apologise…
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Autumn 2019 Well summer has slipped away and the leaves on the trees are fading into yellow, red and gold – a delightful spectacle and a joy to behold. We’ve had a number of visitors over the summer and the last ones to go home were Karen’s daughter Leighann, complete with bump, and partner Danny.…
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Me again – and my apologies for the time it’s taken for this post but ….. ….. things have been a bit fraught. The ascension of King Boris is making the prospect of a no-deal Brexit ever more likely and that fills me with horror, as I will try to explain later in this blog,…
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Christmas 2018 and the turn of the Year 24th January 2019 Well a lot’s happened since I last wrote, some good, some not so good and some even worse so let’s start at the beginning. My eldest daughter Amy came to visit a couple of weeks before Christmas, bringing with her, her partner Andy, my…
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2nd December 2018. My reply to Mrs. May’s letter to the nation – and other stuff Wasn’t it nice of Theresa May to write to us all expressing her heartfelt desire that we join with her and support her vision of Brexit? Silly woman! I had to take the opportunity to reply and have e-mailed…
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November 12th 2018 – Thoughts around Armistice Day and the Centenary of the end of The Great War Yesterday Karen and I spent most of the afternoon watching the proceedings for Armistice Day, especially the results of people’s efforts to mark the centenary of the end of World War One – the supposed Great War.…
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Hallo one and all and welcome to my latest instalment capturing the ups and downs of our life here in France. Since my last post we have enjoyed a glorious late summer with temperatures in the high 20’s and almost no rain. Storm Callum which flooded parts of South Wales only hit us on Sunday…
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