Travelling

The pink super moon woke me up last night, very large and low above the Down on its journey, partly hiding behind our fir tree. Miss travelling – been over a year since visited Europe. Thought Brexit was bad until the virus arrived. With the family grew up with mostly drove to the South of […]

Pay rise and extra holidays

Please PM – consider giving N.H.S. staff and carers and all bus drivers, bin men and all key people who have made a difference through this pandemic to so many lives – dig into the Government pockets and give what would really make a difference to their lives – pay rises and/or time off. Medals […]

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 […]

Why is Greece in trouble?

Being probably more right brain than left brain sort of person, know money handling is challenging but wonder how Greece – a very important ancient civilisation – got into this situation? Is it because of more young people leaving Greece and going elsewhere since entry in EU (or was this already happening) – taking with […]

EU

know nothing (and dont want to know) about politics …but seems a crazy thing to want to encourage UK to pull out of EU althou we are an island we don’t have to be like one apart from the benefits for trade and business and looking for jobs and homes outside of our little bit […]