Some years ago I was in a pub in Melbourne and a man sitting next to me asked where I came from. When I replied Derby a small town about 5 000 miles north of Melbourne and still in Australia. He asked why I lived there. I replied that my mother had lived in Melbourne for 20 years and had been drinking in the same pub for 20 years and he was the first person apart from mbar staff who had spoken to me in 20 years.
Some years ago I was walking around Paris on my own. A young woman approached me and spoke French to me, I replied is English that I spoke and understood very little French. Not sure what her reply was but she disappeared into the crowd. I can only assume she was propositioning me.
We first met as 13year olds at a friends birthday party in 1961. We dated over the years until 1969 and then went our separate ways, until contacted her in 1990. We stayed in touch until 1994 but again fell out for various reasons. One of the problems was that we were both married and lived in different countries. In 2015 we met up again. She was divorced and I was widowed. After 3 weeks together I asked " will you marry me"? She never replied which pretty much put an end to the romance.
I live in a small town in northern Western Australia. The population is about 5000 or so. We have one hospital and a health center. On 3rd June a male forced his way into my house and then proceeded to beat the s hit out of me until I had no option but to give him my car keys. When he left I phoned both the ambulance and the police. I think the police arrived first. I was taken to the local hospital by ambulance. A doctor then put 24 stitches in my face above my left eye. At some stage that night I was flown by the Royal Flying Doctors Service to Broome about 220km away. I believe that I had lost so much blood that I needed a blood transfusion.
I may live in the sticks but we are serviced by the best medical care available. Here we have Medicare which like the NHS is freely available.
When I lived in London I stopped believing in the benefits of the EU when some official in Brussels ruled you could not sell a banana if it was the wrong shape.
King Henry v111 of England was supposed to marry one of his wives on the basis of a painting when he met her and realised the painting bore no semblance to reality, he sent her home and the match-maker to the scaffold.
Derby Western Australia. We have fantastic sun sets and the second highest/lowest tides in the world each February and August. Population 5000 nearest macdonalds 200 miles away.
RE: Ten years in the clink and £10.000 finr
Sink the boat and let the fish sort out their problems.