Category: General

Outlook.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
Peter Ustinov

Goodnight everyone, sleep well.

65 Years on.

It is worth remembering that on 6th June 1940 the main evacuation from Dunkirk of the BEF had finished two days earlier, with the bulk of their equipment being left on the beaches behind them. On D-Day, 6th June 1944, only 4 years later, the Allies landed around 156,000 troops in Normandy. (American forces – 73,000.) on 6th June 1940 Ninety-five per cent of these soldiers had been civilians with no military training, experience or even any great desire to be soldiers.

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Do as I say?

I said a few days ago that I didn’t understand why Her Majesty’s  finances were the subject of so much scrutiny when other Heads of  State also spent a lot on entertaining.  I didn’t actually expect such a speedy response.

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A French socialist MP is questioning the cost of last year’s garden party at the Elysee Palce on 14th July. Compared with the figures in the millions I’ve seen quoted for entertaining the pope at a Holyrood garden party shortly, I think we ought to get the Elysee’s caterers in!

Who am I?

I have had cause, recently, to need to prove who I am, and more to the point, to prove who I was before I was married, and subsequently divorced.  You would not have thought this would be too difficult, but I do not have a marriage certificate.  I have sent off for one, at a cost of nine pounds and fifty pence, and it seems that all will be plain sailing. Continue reading “Who am I?”