Beware sleeping gas gang in France on roadside rest areas known as Aires de Service

We travelled to France for a few days recently and not being able to find somewhere to sleep one night, pulled over on a roadside layby in northern France called an ‘Aire de Service’ where truckers also hold up before they make the crossing home on the A16 (Calais-Dunkirk) motorway. Very late and soon asleep […]

the Bigger Picture and benefits of being United

Two other debates stood out Mindfullness in Schools https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-09-06/debates/16090642000001/MindfulnessInSchools and Calais and Dunkirk, Refugee Children https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2016-09-06/debates/16090640000432/CalaisAndDunkirkRefugeeChildren But also noticed on the news two things – that the UK is spending money on building a wall around the port entrance in Calais and also that there is at least one significant asteroid circling the Earth that […]

There are no winners

Just thinking about what is happening in Calais and feel for the many people who are caught up in it – the people and their children themselves who are fleeing from countrys at war and their familys back home – hoping for them to have an opportunity somewhere safer but reallising the risks of what […]