Summer May Have Arrived

I was out early this morning zooming around on my bicycle, when it suddenly dawned on me that the Summer may finally have reached europe! What may me suddenly realise? Good question...I guess it might have been these views of the poppies that confronted me that made me feel good about this morning... Hope you're all enjoying a wonderfully peaceful day basking in the sunshine wherever you may be in the world!

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D-Day Remembered

It is hard to believe that 65 years has passed since the brave men and women of the allied forces started the second front against Hitler and his Nazi dictatorship. I for one will be paying homage to those who laid down their lives in order that we might be free of the Third Reich. My fellow Soviet Ansestors paid the highest price of any nation, with more than 27,000,000 people dying during the Great Patriotic War.

If you do nothing else this weekend, please spare a couple of minutes of quiet contemplation on Sunday morning as a mark of respect for those who cannot be on the beaches of Normandy to mark this important date. I will be places flowers on a Soviet War Memorial, and will endeavour in my own small way to say thanks...

Today is Polling Day

Whilst like so many people I'm sick to the hind teeth of corrupt politicians, I do believe the only way we can deal with them is to use our vote...I know it's an old fashioned view, but spookily I think it works, which is why I'll be using my vote later today.

Make sure you use yours too! Who knows we might all get a taste for voting and then be ready for a General Election in the UK!

M25 Torture

I don't know about you, but if you spend as much time as I do on the motorway systems of europe you'll probably share my irritation at the M25 around London. This evil god for saken NCP Car Park just gotten worse...just as the summer approaches and the caravan club of Great Britain warms up (more's the pity! I'm not a fan I must say), they introduce a stack of new road works in various locations, reducing speed limits to zero and causing more accidents than ever before!

It is bad enough on London's orbital delight with 3 lanes, now that they are about to increase to 4 lanes heaven knows what will happen...my misery with this road will no doubt continue for the 54 weeks they have penciled for completion plus the 18 weeks of additional over run on the project....hmm...I'll stop my rant now...