Monday - January 31, 2011

afternoon dinner at the golden lion in front of a warm fire. nice change from everyday blahs.

Wife and I had a great pub dinner this afternoon since we had to be out and about anyway.
The portions they give you here are ENORMOUS!  Brits are always saying how surprised they are when visiting the states and how overly large our portions are. Well, based on this place we have nothing on them.

The Golden Lion is only about 15 minutes from our house.  We’ve been spending a bit too much time indoors and haven’t eaten out together in a year or so. That’s cos I’m lazy and addicted to this machine and if not here then I’m buried in a book. So anyway ... I thought I would share this very nice experience.

If you click the link, be sure to see the links on their site. Beer garden and Welcome page especially. Of course, the front didn’t look like this today, being Feb. 1st and not flower power weather. But it was still inviting.  We got a table near the fireplace. Very cozy it was.

Click on the photo and step inside for a look.

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   Wednesday - January 26, 2011

Stouffer’s Lasagna…

Last week my wife either insulted me or pointed out that I’ve not been cooking.

She brought home a frozen Stouffer’s Lasagna.

It’s an insult, I tell you!

So she baked it, and I tried some of it. Blahhh!!

Good if all you like is pasta, a little bit of cheese, and lots of unidentified red sauce. No meat, no veggies, nothing else. Couldn’t even taste any garlic.

If she wanted me to cook my signature lasagna, she should have just asked instead of wasting money on that crap. (A waste it was too… I just threw out the leftovers of it...1/3rd of the pan. The cats wouldn’t even touch it.)

So now I’m cooking up my lasagna. Based on the old ‘New Better Homes Cookbook’ recipe, as opposed to the new ‘New Better Homes Cookbook’. The difference? The new ‘New BHCB’ pretty much eschews things like eggs. Don’t want to promote cholesterol. The recipes therefore suck. I’m sorry I wasted money on the new ‘New Better Homes Cookbook’.

Anyway, my recipe is based on the old ‘New Better Homes’ recipe. My changes are to double the onions and garlic, add a 1/2lb of sautéed mushrooms, and green peppers. I also only use fresh ground pork. How do I know if it is fresh? I buy my pork from Jean every Saturday at the local farmer’s market. That pork was on the hoof a couple of days before I bought it.

If anyone is really interested, I’ll post my recipe. I’m just blogging about this because my wife either insulted me, or nudged me into cooking again. Or both.

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   Thursday - November 25, 2010

THIS IS A SPECIAL POST FOR A FEW BMEWS PEOPLE WHO REMEMBERED THE LADY

Yesterday, I posted the obit for this beautiful woman.  But at the time I didn’t have this photo. In fact, I didn’t find it on line either.
The Telegraph ran her obit today and used this photo in the hard copy, but not on line.  So I called them today and politely asked if they would email me this shot, which I love. Well, as things turned out I ended up having to use my scanner anyway, as all they had at the time was the entire page which came as a pdf.
So anyway ... at least we few have this photo and I am glad of it.  I think you guys will be too.

INGRID PITT

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   Sunday - November 14, 2010

just some personal stuff and eye candy on a damnp,cold very foggy morning

Drew is busy doing computer stuff ...

And I’ll try and get back later. He has my sympathy as I had a problem or two myself yesterday. Like, program not responding. Well duh. I knew that. And then server error.
Here’s what sometimes works and of course if Drew’s puter is down he won’t be able to read the good advice.

Lots of swearing and even make up new cuss words as ya go.  Then a good punch as shown above.  It doesn’t actually work too well but can make you feel better and in control of things. Even if you aren’t.

So, I leave for awhile with this photo I had to scan from a paper that doesn’t allow free access on line.  Did my best with the software I have. Even with better software I’m not sure I have the knack of understanding how to use it all properly. Sometimes the instructions aren’t always straightforward.
And they hardly ever make allowances for aged blockheads.
The young lady isn’t an actress or a model.  She’s a college student and the paper used her for her obvious good looks, in an article about the challenges facing students in today’s economic environment.  Wish I had access to a better copy because even in the newspaper where quality isn’t always great, she really stands out.  And this time their quality was really very good.

Her name is CLAIRE ABRAHAMS. She’s a student at Cambridge here in the UK.  She deserves better then my effort here. She has a very high wow factor in the hard copy.

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   Monday - November 08, 2010

A thought before retiring …

Severe weather alert as Britain battered by 70mph winds, snow in the North and up to 3 inches of rain across the South

I just had to post that headline so Drew wouldn’t feel any colder considering our weather thingy says it’s 52 here. I’m glad it isn’t.

My real reason for popping in here is as follows.

Last night, too tired to read but not sleep, I turned on the radio and caught another one of those panel shows. Yeah. Mistake.  I always get worked up when folks here talk about the Tea Party in negative terms as though they have the whole thing down pat.

One fellow who is now living in the USA, talks like he’s an expert on American life. Anyway, this line ALWAYS comes up no matter what the program or who is saying it.
One person asks, “Tea Party ppl keep saying they’re taking their country back, but from what or who?” “Even they don’t know.” “Perhaps the fact that they now have a black president has something to do with it.” “The Tea Party is sinister.”

Naturally Sarah Palin just has to be part of the conversation and nothing good said as you may well imagine.

So there I was, cursing and swearing at my radio and finally I did wake up and was able to read my book for too many hours.  Bah!

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   Sunday - November 07, 2010

sorry I checked my inbox tonight. rcob!  can’t we please drop the damned UN?

Damn it I really thought I was outta here earlier.  Checked inbox before shutdown and found this bloody £”!!&^*%* thing.  Who are these foreign god damn effin jerks to tell my country how to do things in our own back yard.

United States Placed In Human Rights Hot Seat

The United States has been defending its human rights record before the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council.

A 30-strong US delegation was grilled by more than 80 states on issues ranging from the Guantanamo detention centre to racial discrimination. Switzerland called for a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty.

The US was the 136th UN member state to be scrutinised by allies and adversaries in the UN rights body, as the Obama administration opens itself up to a council that was shunned by his predecessor.

US Assistant Secretary of State Esther Brimmer, head of the high-level delegation, said she was honoured to present the first US Universal Periodic Review (UPR).

“We take our place in the UPR process with pride in our accomplishments, honesty in facing continued challenges, and a commitment to using the international system to elevate and advance the protection of human rights at home and abroad,” she told the packed meeting room in Geneva.

Cuba, Venezuela, Russia and Iran, some of the US’s fiercest critics, were among the first to speak during the three-hour meeting.

The Cuban ambassador, Rodolfo Reyes Rodriguez, called on the Americans to end their embargo against his country.

Iran’s delegation urged the US to “halt serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law including covert external operations by the CIA carried out on pretext of combating terrorism”.

Many countries raised similar issues such as the death penalty, failure to ratify key human rights conventions, the treatment of migrants, racial discrimination, US prison conditions, the closure of the Guantanamo detention centre and related abuses allegedly committed during the war on terror.

Death penalty

Switzerland, like Ireland, France, Britain and a host of others, called on the United States to bring in a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty.

Ireland? where they’re throwing bombs again. France? Britain?  Oh that last one is a gas. Britain?  Where most burglars even with a record do not see the inside of a jail?  Britain, where the average man on the street and women too, favor the death penalty. But hey, that’s just the law abiding ppl and who listens to them anymore. Britain? Where more then a thousand VIOLENT criminals are walking the streets free as birds cos the jails are crowded?  Switzerland?
I have a message for all you stupid hand wringing, bunny hugging, bed wetting, butt fuck ass wipes.
GO FUCK YOURSELVES!!!!!!  DROP FUCKIN DEAD SHIT HEADS!  DO IT NOW so we don’t have to listen to your pious bullshit.
Switzerland ... Tell ya what dip shits.  We’ll end the death penalty if all of you holier then tho overpaid fat cat stuffed shirts take ALL the violent prisoners we have waiting on death row, into your country.  With no possibility of return to the USA.  You house the miserable bastards. At your expense.  Or don’t you love mankind quite that much?  You only love em removed by some miles where you won’t have to put up with the problem.  Oh woo-hoo. The Swiss took a few Gitmo prisoners. How thweet you are. Kiss,kiss.  Wait till they turn on ya, and they will.  You gonna send em back?

You guys can flame me if ya want to but I’d be very happy if somehow some way some terrorist found a way to bring down the UN building. I hate the idea of that false money grubbing place on our shores. I’m tired of listening to Russia give us advice on rights.  I’m tired of all the human and civil rights groups messing about and really, really would just love to gun ALL the bastards down.  It’s become an industry we don’t need meddling in state affairs. And, most are foreign based as well, with offshoots operating in the USA.

Oh yeah ... please notice our not so glorious president has allowed this latest UN forum where President Bush (for all his faults) ignored it.

There’s lots more to read and get steamed about. 
I really don’t think I need this damn newsletter. Do I?  Jeesh.

READ ALL THE REST HERE

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The ‘Terry Pratchett’ effect

I’m a fan of Terry Pratchett. I’ve read most of his Disc World series. I spend much time, normally while delivering the mail, listening to the audiobooks of the Disc World.

I find that ‘pratchettisms’ are creeping into my normal life.

Just this morning, I was standing in the middle of the living room. I was thinking about the fact that we had three bananas that were too ripe to eat, but just ripe enough to make banana bread. I was considering converting the bananas to banana bread. My wife came down the stairs with a load of laundry.

She asked: ‘Do you have to stand in the middle of the room?’

I answered: ‘Yes’

She asked: ‘Why?’

I answered: ‘Because I have to be somewhere.’

She just looked at me, said that I was ‘nuts’ and proceeded to the laundry room.

At that point it occurred to me that I’ve been reading too much Terry Pratchett. That’s exactly the sort of answer that a Pratchett character would give.

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   Saturday - November 06, 2010

hurray for our side and SCREW our critics on Any Questions in Scotland. Brits will understand.

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   Thursday - October 14, 2010

There’s a radio program here in the UK called Any Answers.  It follows Any Questions. I have one.

A very off the wall post as I’d be VERY interested in views and opinions and especially advice.

We’re talkin hypothetical okay?

You live next door to an inconsiderate neighbor who happens to be a dog owner. Ah, you’re already beginning to see things.
You aren’t going to get anywhere with said neighbor because as anyone who has ever been in the position you know from experience that .....

Dog owners take any critical comment with regard to an annoying non stop barking little flea farm, as a personal attack on them.
What? They may ask. My dog? Barking?  My dog doesn’t bark. 
Naturally enough you know better because you’re right next door.

Keeping thing purely hypothetical now .... assuming that all reasonable solutions have gotten you nowhere ...  and you have no access to a gun, not that you would use it of course (cough).

I’d be interested in knowing what various methods you might use to bring about a hypothetically permanent solution to a barking dog problem.

There aren’t any cats around here in any number or I’d collect gallons of cat piss and dump it on the bark machine, thus causing it to attack itself.  So we can scratch that lone idea.

Serious replies only please .... keeping it hypothetical naturally.

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   Sunday - October 10, 2010

EYE CANDY and other subjects ….

Going to be a busy day today. Another visitor coming for afternoon tea, it’s an English thing.  The wife’s elderly Auntie Joan who is a dear and a somewhat risqué
87 year old.  She’s an artist and not a bad one either.  So we must make ready for the visit later on. 

Meanwhile … while checking s few other things online I ran across one of our Favorites who I stole a photo from.  In the process of surfing by Steamboat MgGoo’s online abode, I discovered we have a couple of things in common.  One of which is an affinity for Asian women.  He thinks they are cute but I think they are way,way beyond merely ‘cute.’ I think they’re AWESOME, FANTASTIC, DYN-O-MITE !  In Japan when young I felt like a kid in a toy store at Christmas. Or else in heaven.
Of course, I kinda think that of women in general as well.  They are so darn nice to be around. And to stare at. Anyway … I really couldn’t resist this photo and so

You may wanna visit and say hello.

H/T Steamboat McGoo

Oh right .. I said a couple of things.  I think cats is another. I do love dogs if large. Have special affection for Alsatians and Malamutes.

are they beautiful er what?

But there is something about cats I never could resist, and I really like the looks of this one, which I also took from McGoo. I believe it’s his.  Look at that face.  What’s not ta love?

Wife just saw this and wants it .... we call em fur people ...

Thanks Steamboat ... you made my day. And oh btw. Yeah. I’d say you deserve a medal for restraint too.  lol.

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   Monday - October 04, 2010

that’s entertainment?  or just exhibition? entertaining exhibition?

Not a lot I’ll add to this except to say, if anyone wonders just what the heck the culture has come to, and this isn’t new btw, well here’s your answer.

That awesomely wonderful talent, Yoko Ono (pardon while I fro-up) and lady gaga the newest talent sweeping the world.

Here’s gag and lady puke (yoko) who wouldn’t know talent if she tripped over it, in a clinch on a piano on stage in LA.  Hey, ever since Brittany and Madonna did it standing up at an awards show, it’s accepted as talented entertainment.  It’s “edgy” which is all the excuse ya need when you lack any real musical talent.
Oh and hey, when you can’t think of anything really intelligent or witty, flash the V sign with two fingers ala Churchill. That’ll connect with your fan base of the tone deaf. 

Just my opinion, not worth anything to anyone but meself. But as I see things, the more grossed out the world of what passes for entertainment has become, the easier it’s become to see decadence as a normal and hoped for thing.  And if it’s normal, then folks doing the bitching are the faulty ones.  Not two women, one old enuff to be a grandmother, in a clinch, on stage and passing it off as, ‘entertainment.’ Which in a way I suppose it is to the feeble minded and easily entertained.  Like a baby you can shake a rattle at and get his/her attention and make em happy for a bit. 
I’m sure between the “artists” and the director and the producer a lot of thought went into this. Like oh, maybe minutes if not seconds.

Never mind that Yoko has been eternally ugly.  And this is a pretty good photo of the old bag. She’s delusional in her supposed talent. And btw .. how much effort
went into this pose?  What ever happened to the show in show biz?  Or is this the show? If it is, it’s a poor one. And Sting sure doesn’t look any better then the Jap.
More like disgusting I think.  I’m sure things will get worse as the next generation looks for the next envelope to get edgy about.  They’ll look at today and say, Oh heck. We can get nastier then that old stuff. And so they will.

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the west continues to see no evil as Wilders goes on trial, meanwhile we have a high alert in effect

Hells bells I guess this case may never end as the bed wetting , muslim appeasement, we love our muzzies , Dutch pc authorities continue to go after Mr Wilders.
And of course they should.  Who the heck does Mr. Wilders think he is, spouting off and being critical of members of the ROP. Where did he suddenly get the idea that free speech and voicing opinions or even reporting on what he sees, could be done without first getting co-operation and permission from muslims, on whose good graces Dutch freedom now depends.  And guess what?  With the present govt. accepting the new laws that were passed by the previous leftist govt. with regard to what ppl can and can not say without being sued or charged with harassment, folks here may as well learn to speak Dutch. Or Arabic. Or both.

Dutch politicians revolt over burka ban
Christian Democrats are in revolt against their party leaders over plans to ban the burka as part of a deal to create a Dutch liberal-conservative coalition government with the support of Geert Wilders, a far-Right leader.

By Bruno Waterfield

IDIOT DUTCH POLITICIANS

Stupid Fuckin Idiots!  Jeeze I see red when I see this kind of thing. 

Anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders on trial for inciting racial hatred

Geert Wilders, the Dutch anti-Islam MP who will become a shadow partner in the next Dutch government, has gone on trial accused of inciting racial hatred against Muslims.

The controversial politician risks up to a year in jail or a 7,600-euro (£6,600) fine for calling Islam “fascist” and likening the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
Wilders, 47, is charged with five counts of giving religious offence to Muslims and inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims and people of non-Western immigrant origin, particularly Moroccans.
In comments made between October 2006 and March 2008 in Dutch newspapers and on internet forums, prosecutors say that Wilders described Islam as “the sick ideology of Allah and Mohammed” and its holy book as “the Mein Kampf of a religion that seeks to eliminate others”.
Among the exhibits is Wilders’ 17-minute film, “Fitna”, alleged to depict Islam as a force bent on destroying the West and whose screening in the Netherlands in 2008 prompted protests in much of the Muslim world.
Wilders arrived at the Amsterdam district court minutes before the start of the hearing.

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Mr. Wilders doesn’t have to say or do anything to inspire fear and or hatred or both as concerns this particular murderous group of sub humans.

I just can not imagine what has got into Mr. WIlder’s mind.  Gee, could it be things like:

Our threat level remains at severe - meaning that an attack is highly likely.

Or maybe things like this:

Indonesian women caned for selling food during Muslim festival of Ramadan

This is the moment two women were publicly caned in Indonesia’s staunchly Muslim Aceh province on Friday for selling food.

MORE HERE WITH PHOTOS

Well gosh.  I just don’t understand why the man is so hateful and critical of a religion that is so merciful and so understanding and so peaceful.
Can you? 

Foreign Office warns of high terror threat in France and Germany

Britain followed the US in upgrading its travel advice for Europe today following a series of terror alerts.

The Foreign Office warned that there was a ‘’high threat’’ of attacks in countries including France and Germany, rather than the ‘’general threat’’ previously identified.

The move came shortly after the State Department issued guidance urging Americans to be vigilant when visiting Europe, highlighting the ‘’potential for terrorists to attack public transportation systems and other tourist infrastructure’’.

“Attacks could be indiscriminate, including in places frequented by expatriates and foreign travellers.”
The warnings have been heightened after intelligence officials in Britain intercepted a credible al Qaida-linked terror plot last week.

The planned attack would reportedly have been similar to the deadly commando-style raids in Mumbai, India, two years ago, with other European cities, in France and Germany, also targeted.

“US citizens should take every precaution to be aware of their surroundings and to adopt appropriate safety measures to protect themselves when travelling,” the department said.

MORE HERE

Hey, I take that last bit personally. In fact, I take all of it personally. 

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   Thursday - September 23, 2010

Lithuanian squatters ‘snatch ANOTHER home while owner is out’ ….

America, this is what happens when lefty hand wringer, bleeding heart, pc. bed wetting liberals take control of your country and your borders. With the help of course of the EU because it is open borders we have that helps drive this.  Of course, just so you know, “squatters” here are nothing new and are always hard to dislodge.  It’s a maddening thing that brings down that curtain of red mist.

For many years, almost 20 in fact, my wife’s mother lived in fear that somehow squatters would learn of the house next door, and that it was empty all that time.

She used to keep flowers in baskets on the front porch, flowers in the windows inside, and had lights on timers in the house to make it look lived in.

The owners who lived in London were very wealthy (the daughter of the house married a Harley Street Heart Surgeon) and they kept the heat on yr round and all utilities.  The MIL would collect the mail and forward on any bills that came.  The lawn was taken care of every two weeks by a landscape service and hedges trimmed as needed.  In the winter the MIL used to take her washing next door to hang and dry as the old place had central heat.
Squatters could easily have taken the place over had they known.  And damn little to be done about it.  My wife says that in the ‘80s it was even worse. Her description is epidemic. 

The property was sold and the house shown here demolished. Very sad to see the old place go. It would have been a squatters delight had they but known.
Very large modern and ugly house now occupies the space.  All brick with stainless steel gutters and no character.

Gang of Lithuanian squatters ‘snatch ANOTHER home while owner is out’

By Daily Mail Reporter

Mother-of-one Angie Belalij, 37, claims squatters moved in to her home after she moved out to allow renovation work to go ahead

A gang of Lithuanian squatters are moving into people’s homes and changing the locks while they are out.

George Pope, 72, took his dogs for a walk and returned to find a family had moved in and changed the locks.

And now it has emerged Angie Belalij, 37, also lost control of her home when illegal tenants allegedly moved in after she left to allow renovation work to go ahead.

Police and the council say they are powerless to act unless they have a court order requiring the squatters to be evicted.

The deadlock leaves the authentic residents in limbo and facing a potentially costly court battle to reclaim their own home.

They fear bogus estate agents are watching their homes and waiting for them to go away before moving in illegal tenants.

Mrs Belalij, a mother-of-one, was having her home in Barking renovated and so moved out.

But when she returned, she says she found a family of Lithuanians had moved in. They have now been living there for five months.

‘I went round to see the builders and we found squatters in the house,’ she told the Express.

‘When I said to them “Why are you here, this is my house”, they got in my face shouting at me that they had rented it and they had rights.’

A picture taken outside the property yesterday showed a young woman clutching a sharp kitchen knife, leaning over the gate.

Mrs Belalij says the squatters claimed they were paying £600-a-month to live there.

A printed notice stuck to the window cites the Criminal Law Act 1977 and threatens to prosecute anyone who enters without permission.

Because the squatters have refused to leave, they can only be evicted if the residents go to court.

Would you not call it a home invasion robbery? Is this place fuckin crazy er what? 

LEGAL LOOPHOLE

Landlords cannot legally evict squatters without going to court. Police and councils have no power to act so even though squatters have no legal right to stay, you cannot physically remove them.

Landlords will have to pay up to £1,500 in legal fees to fund civil action.

Homeowners can go to the country court and apply for an interim repossession order if they do so within 28 days of their home being taken over.

A judge may grant an order which must then be served on the illegal tenants. If they refuse to move within 24 hours, they can be arrested.

The order is not permanent and a hearing will then be held before a judge to decide rightful ownership.

LINK TO LATEST HOME TAKEOVER OUTRAGE

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   Friday - September 17, 2010

German chancellor rebuts suggestion that she plans gipsy clearances.

Oh dear - oh dear ... does this mean war? Again? Will Panzers roll into Paris?

The subject may be serious of course because the folks known as Roma, aka Gypsies, are quite a problem in Europe as they are here in the UK. And since I live here, the problem is, one may say, close to home. And us with a beautiful but empty field at the end of the road.
Actually, I might like to sell our house to a group of them, to make life miserable for a neighbor with an annoying dog. But I digress.

I for some perverse reason enjoy the back and forth argument now playing out between Germany and France on the subject of Gypsy removals. Or deportations as they’re called.

I realize that there will be some who have no interest in the subject in which case I’d suggest they move on to another place more to their liking or simply skip the story.  I also know there are folks, thinking ones, whose minds are not closed to outside events, while there might be the odd one or two who see nothing of value outside their tiny sphere both mental and otherwise.  And guess what?  I don’t have a problem with that either.  Honest.

What I do have a problem with though, is the idea that an outsider who has contributed nothing to BMEWS in time or effort, will presume to insist that what I write about or bring to the forum should fit their idea of what’s interesting. 

Angela Merkel has flatly denied Nicolas Sarkozy’s claim she told the French president that Germany was planning to follow France’s example and begin clearing illegal camps of migrant gipsies.

By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels

Chancellor Merkel was told, after arriving back in Berlin following a fractious EU summit on Thursday night, that President Sarkozy had publicly announced that Germany would begin expelling 12,000 Gypsies next month.

Guido Westerwelle, Germany’s foreign minister, used diplomatic language, to describe the issue as “misunderstanding” but dismissed the suggestion as false.

Following heated exchanges over his Roma policy at an EU summit, Mr Sarkozy claimed that the Chancellor had expressed “total solidarity” with France in a fight with the European Commission over the legality of the gipsy expulsions.

According to Boyko Borisov, the prime minister of Bulgaria, the French President harangued Jose Manuel Barroso during “an intense exchange of sharp words”.

“There was a big argument - I could also say a scandal - between the president of the European Commission and the French president,” he said.

Mr Sarkozy’s version was very different. “If there was one person who remained calm and did not use excessive language, it was me,” he said.

ROLL PANZERS

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4. Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere

It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.

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