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Monday 9th May 2016 – DO YOU KNOW WHAT?

Yesterday was VE Day – the anniversary of “Victory in Europe” in 1945. And I didn’t see a single posting, on any social website or on the BBC News website – about the anniversary. That surprises me, for we are being bombarded with all kinds of anniversaries of events that killed half a dozen, 100, 3000 people, so why aren’t we being bombarded with the anniversary of an event that killed over 30 million people?

But then again, it doesn’t surprise me really. These other anniversaries are really highlighting events that took place either involving terrorists/freedom-fighters (delete whichever is inapplicable) at the hands of forces of the State (if the victims are of certain ethnic origins or colour) or “innocent” civilians or forces of the State (although how civilians can be “innocent” if they have voted for warmongers totally defeats me, and how the forces of the State can be “innocent” when they have been engaged to kill their victims likewise totally defeats me) at the hands of terrorists/freedom-fighters (delete whichever is inapplicable) (if the perpetrators are of a certain ethnic origin or colour or, as is more-often the case, religion)

It all goes to prove that these people banging all of these drums are just doing nothing more than stirring up an unpleasant and unhealthy agenda of their own – racist, anti-colonialist, religionist, call it what you will. Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone would forget just for a moment all about their own little issues and commemorate a day that ended a period that involved the killing of many, many times more people that their favourite little conflict , or the total sum of all of their little conflicts ever did.

And now, about VJ Day …

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Saturday 8th May 2010 – Something exciting …

… happened at the footy this evening.

rising ground dew pionsat puy de dome franceIn fact many exciting things happened at the footy – more of which anon – but the most unusual of them all was at about 5 minutes to half time when I turned around and noticed a cloud of water vapour rising from off the disused railway embankment at the back of the ground. It was quite astonishing.

The second half was played through the banks of the cloud that was being slowly blown across the Overflow End of the pitch by a light but steady breeze. All in all it made for quite a surreal .atmosphere for this … errrr … tense game.

fcpsh fc pionsat st hilaire lapeyrouse puy de domeligue de football league franceI say “tense” because that’s exactly what it was. With a Lapeyrouse linesman giving goal kicks against Pionsat when the ball hadn’t crossed the line, throw-ins against Pionsat when the ball hadn’t gone out of play, offsides against Pionsat that were nothing like offsides (I was right level with play – much more than the linesman was), and the linesman coming onto the pitch to threaten (yes, to threaten) Gregory after he had put in a heavy but legal challenge on the Lapeyrouse winger.

And with Lapeyrouse players collapsing like ninepins every time a Pionsat player got near to them and with a Lapeyrouse keeper hurling abuse at the Pionsat attackers all throughout the match, how the referee allowed this game to continue I don’t know. But Pionsat lost 1-0 and it’s the result that counts.

Back home (up here is above the cloud level experienced in the valley down at Pionsat) I discovered why the water vapour suddenly rose like that. All the clouds have gone and there is a clear sky with millions of stars again. We were obviously experiencing the effects of the change of the weather – some sudden temperature inversion and a pile of heat radiation into the atmosphere. It may well be hot tomorrow.

I went into St Eloy les Mines to do my shopping earlier and to my surprise almost everywhere was closed yet again. Of course, it’s May 8th – VE Day – and so most places were celebrating the end of World War II in Europe.

But I made an astonishing discovery. I popped round to Claude and Francoise and ….

  1. the bell push has gone from the front door (there’s a long story about this bell-push)
  2. their letter box has been removed
  3. the European Cardboard Box Mountain appears to have disappeared
  4. their car has gone.

All the indications seem to suggest that they have badgered off into the sunset. How bizarre!

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