Well its been some time since I last posted. So where have I been & what have I been up two?
Since the last time I made a posting in my blog I have since got married and have been to Sorrento in Italy.
I liked Italy so much that in the next few weeks I will be going there again. This time I will be going to Sicily (that's depending on if the airplanes are still flying because of the volcanic ash!).
when I get back to the UK I will post what we got up two and hopefully include some photo's.
I have again moved home and no longer live in London, but now live right on the border of Essex & London.
The week we moved was the the second week of February 2009, which turned out to be not a good week to move. This was due to a band of realy cold weather hitting England causing major snow falls.
I do like snow and miss it as we do not seem to have half the amount of snow as when I was a child. But when there is heavy snow and you are moving house its not really what you want!
Anyway it turned out to be the heaviest snowfall that London had received since 1991, and we ended up moving in the middle of it.
One good outcome was that the house we moved to was nice and warm compared to the old place.
9th May 2009 was the day that I got married. then as i said the following week Nicole & I went to Sorrento (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorrento).
While there we also visited Rome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome),Vesuvius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vesuvius) , Pompeii (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii) and the Amalfi coast (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalfi) . I will tell you more in a later blog where hopefully I will also include some pictures.
Well I'll sign off for now.
chow.
Saturday, 8 May 2010
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Wednesday, 18 March 2009
Looking at the past to Look to the future.
I have called this post looking at the past to look at the future, because it over the last couple of days I have been asked alot of questions regarding my past that will affect how future plans turn out. Anyway here goes!
Last Friday after work Nicole & I had to go to the Catholic Church that we plan to get married in....I did not realise what an issue it would be!
Nicole was born out in the Seychelles and she had to give the church all places she lived and what Churches she attended - Luckily Nicole has since 1977 lived in the same town within London and attended the same church up until 2004. So that part was easy.
But and this is where the but is
Nicole has been asked to locate her natural father who she has nether seen in her life and find out if he is living, what work he does and a whole lot more! Talking of opening up old wounds!
Its not a nice thing to have to do tracing a parent that you have nether know, because he made his girlfriend pregnant and did not take responsibility.
Luckily Nicole Mum met Nicole's now step father and they married. But imagine how Nicole's step father must feel especially as Nicole has to ask all these question!
As for my side of the situation. As we are getting married in a Catholic Church they would not accept that I was a Salvationist (For those who do not know that is a person who is a member of The Salvation Army http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salvation_Army) and that I was dedicated as a baby rather than being baptised. I was fortunate though that during my twenties I went to Bromley Christian Centre http://www.bromleychristiancentre.org/ where I was baptised. Also i was really surprised when I was asked what faith I was, and I responded that I was a Christan. The person doing our wedding paperwork then lectured me saying that you have to adhere to a church and that you cannot be a Christian unless you called yourself a Catholic/Salvationist/Methodist/Baptist. Which is totally contrary to how the bible teaches where it says to be a Christian you must believe in God and Jesus! And also -
'There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female. For you are all Christians, you are one in Christ Jesus'
I personally feel that it's not what domination that you attend, but what is more important is you believe.
Different church denominations are like tins of baked beans. You may buy a tin of beans and pick a local shop's brand or buy a big brand name, but once you open the tin of beans and serve them up, they are the same! And the same goes for Christianity. Once out of the tin your belief is exactly the same!
In work it has been much the same sort of thing happening. For the last two days I have been hidden up in one of our centres with 8 other people looking at our systems discussing their weaknesses to try and draw up a future system. Well we'll have to wait and see what the outcome is, but it may well affect two big It Companies and how their systems will work together!
Well I have stolen time from work to write this blog so will have to go now as I have to show a person how to use our computer system.
Well chow for now.
Last Friday after work Nicole & I had to go to the Catholic Church that we plan to get married in....I did not realise what an issue it would be!
Nicole was born out in the Seychelles and she had to give the church all places she lived and what Churches she attended - Luckily Nicole has since 1977 lived in the same town within London and attended the same church up until 2004. So that part was easy.
But and this is where the but is
Nicole has been asked to locate her natural father who she has nether seen in her life and find out if he is living, what work he does and a whole lot more! Talking of opening up old wounds!
Its not a nice thing to have to do tracing a parent that you have nether know, because he made his girlfriend pregnant and did not take responsibility.
Luckily Nicole Mum met Nicole's now step father and they married. But imagine how Nicole's step father must feel especially as Nicole has to ask all these question!
As for my side of the situation. As we are getting married in a Catholic Church they would not accept that I was a Salvationist (For those who do not know that is a person who is a member of The Salvation Army http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salvation_Army) and that I was dedicated as a baby rather than being baptised. I was fortunate though that during my twenties I went to Bromley Christian Centre http://www.bromleychristiancentre.org/ where I was baptised. Also i was really surprised when I was asked what faith I was, and I responded that I was a Christan. The person doing our wedding paperwork then lectured me saying that you have to adhere to a church and that you cannot be a Christian unless you called yourself a Catholic/Salvationist/Methodist/Baptist. Which is totally contrary to how the bible teaches where it says to be a Christian you must believe in God and Jesus! And also -
'There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female. For you are all Christians, you are one in Christ Jesus'
I personally feel that it's not what domination that you attend, but what is more important is you believe.
Different church denominations are like tins of baked beans. You may buy a tin of beans and pick a local shop's brand or buy a big brand name, but once you open the tin of beans and serve them up, they are the same! And the same goes for Christianity. Once out of the tin your belief is exactly the same!
In work it has been much the same sort of thing happening. For the last two days I have been hidden up in one of our centres with 8 other people looking at our systems discussing their weaknesses to try and draw up a future system. Well we'll have to wait and see what the outcome is, but it may well affect two big It Companies and how their systems will work together!
Well I have stolen time from work to write this blog so will have to go now as I have to show a person how to use our computer system.
Well chow for now.
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
New fangled invetions! And moving again!
Well its been some time since I last wrote on my blog and it looks like nobody has been following it!
Well nether mind. I enjoy every so often put bits down on my blog and today is one of those days!
New Fangled Inventions!
Since I started writing my blog I have discovered both Facebook and Twitter. Both system are cool. with Facebook I was able to contact an old school friend who I have not been in contact with since 1982. Over the last week I have also been using Twitter so if you do look me up its joolzofsalopia.
Well two weeks I met up with my old friend and we had a great laugh and was chatting about the 'Good Old Days' at AMR (that's the name of our School) .
Hopefully we will meet up soon again. unfortunately I could not meet him up on the second occasion as I had family around at the new place and he has to go to India
New Places!
Talking of new places. I have moved again!!! And for the second time in my life I am living in Essex. Hence one of the reasons why I have not been blogging.
We moved the week that the snow hit the South East, so we ended up delayed by two days and ended up living out of boxes, and from the bedroom.
Anyway from the beginning of January once items were ready to be moved I have been loading my car and driving the 20 miles from Catford to Chafford, off loading them in the house and then going back to do the same job again.
On the Sunday the snow arrived I did 4 trips and on the final one the snow started to fall when I was loading up the car. We drove up the A2 road and when we left London and entered Kent the road dropped from 3 lanes to 1 as the council had not been gritting the roads. Once we was on the Essex side of the Thames the road were clear again.
I had one hair raising moment where there car started to slide, but I was able control the slide and direct the car away from the other cars, but I did buckle the front wheel as the car hit a curb. That was soon fixed at the service mind.
I do miss the old place in some ways - like having to get up before 6am, and being on the 07:30 train, also I have got used to Catford having lived there since 1990.
But when I do get the right train the trip seems to be a quicker trip and we do have a nice warm house.
By the way I got the wrong train last night, and ended up by Basildon. I did not get home until 8pm, we then had to rush eating tea to go bunny sitting down in Kent.
Well hopefully I will up date my blogg properly and also add some photo's to make it more interesting within the next couple of weeks.
But then I have said that before when I came back from France - mind Christmas arrived and then the move.
well I will sign off for now.
So chow.
Well nether mind. I enjoy every so often put bits down on my blog and today is one of those days!
New Fangled Inventions!
Since I started writing my blog I have discovered both Facebook and Twitter. Both system are cool. with Facebook I was able to contact an old school friend who I have not been in contact with since 1982. Over the last week I have also been using Twitter so if you do look me up its joolzofsalopia.
Well two weeks I met up with my old friend and we had a great laugh and was chatting about the 'Good Old Days' at AMR (that's the name of our School) .
Hopefully we will meet up soon again. unfortunately I could not meet him up on the second occasion as I had family around at the new place and he has to go to India
New Places!
Talking of new places. I have moved again!!! And for the second time in my life I am living in Essex. Hence one of the reasons why I have not been blogging.
We moved the week that the snow hit the South East, so we ended up delayed by two days and ended up living out of boxes, and from the bedroom.
Anyway from the beginning of January once items were ready to be moved I have been loading my car and driving the 20 miles from Catford to Chafford, off loading them in the house and then going back to do the same job again.
On the Sunday the snow arrived I did 4 trips and on the final one the snow started to fall when I was loading up the car. We drove up the A2 road and when we left London and entered Kent the road dropped from 3 lanes to 1 as the council had not been gritting the roads. Once we was on the Essex side of the Thames the road were clear again.
I had one hair raising moment where there car started to slide, but I was able control the slide and direct the car away from the other cars, but I did buckle the front wheel as the car hit a curb. That was soon fixed at the service mind.
I do miss the old place in some ways - like having to get up before 6am, and being on the 07:30 train, also I have got used to Catford having lived there since 1990.
But when I do get the right train the trip seems to be a quicker trip and we do have a nice warm house.
By the way I got the wrong train last night, and ended up by Basildon. I did not get home until 8pm, we then had to rush eating tea to go bunny sitting down in Kent.
Well hopefully I will up date my blogg properly and also add some photo's to make it more interesting within the next couple of weeks.
But then I have said that before when I came back from France - mind Christmas arrived and then the move.
well I will sign off for now.
So chow.
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
France
Well I am back! (some will say I did not know that you went away!)
Paris was great.
When I went there To be honest I was a little bit worried, as I do not really speak any French....Well I had nothing to worry about as the French can speak English better than me!
To be honest I did try to speak a little french & I think that I made some of the locals smile at my attempts.
So anyway what did I (or we as I went with Nicole) get up too?
By the way I have included web links so if you wnat to find out more about where we visited you can.
Day 1
Was the day that we traveled by Eurostar form our great railway Station St Pancras international. We left soon after 9am and was in the centre of Paris by 1pm.
Our next adventure was to travel by the Metro. I call it an adventure as the people I work with had told me that the Paris Metro was a complicated underground network and it was hard to get to different places.
What I found surprising was that when we was standing on the platform waiting for the Metro there was hardly anybody around, then just after the train arrived and we had boarded it there was a mad rush and people appeared from nowhere, and then the train was absolutely packed!
The second train on the underground network that we caught was a total surprise even though it was underground it was a double decker train! I had heard that the overground services were double deckers, but I did not know that these trains were run as a part of the Metro services.
Anyway we managed to find our way really easy, and it was not as bad as expected.
Once we had left the underground we had to find out Hotel. Anyway the Hotel that we stayed at was the: Hotel Eiffel Rive Gauche (http://www.hotel-eiffel.com/hotel_rg_home.htm).
Anyway the Hotel was a nice little place hidden off one of the back streets and it was very quiet.
We did not have a room with a view, but it had everything we needed. what we found funny was when we put on the TV the channel that came on was showing BBC & ITV programmes all dubbed into French, so there was Billy Piper in Doctor Who speaking in French.
After Checking in, Nicole & I decided to take a walk and find somewhere to eat as our hotel did not provide evening meals. As we was staying really close to the Eiffel Tower there was plenty of places to eat...So off we trot.
Once we had found a place to eat our next bit of fun occurred! Nicole looked on the menu and spotted a meal that look like it was a Pitza and as I chose to have the same we ordered it. When the food arrived though it turned out to be a salad.
In the Afternoon as it was still Sunny but cold, because I had fully got my bearings on Paris we decided that we would walk to Arc De Triumph (http://www.aviewoncities.com/paris/arcdetriomphe.htm), then once we were there we walked the length of the Avenue Des Champs - Elysees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champs-%C3%89lys%C3%A9es) down to Jardin des Tuileries ( http://www.v1.paris.fr/EN/Visiting/gardens/jardin_tuileries.asp) where we continued to the Louvre, which turned out to be closed!
So we went to Notre Dame, and had a look around that.
Day 3
On day 3 the weather had changed and we got up to see that it was pouring down with rain, so as we knew that the Louvre was open we chose to go there. Anyway the place is so big and you would need more that a day to look around it. Not only does the Louve contain art, but also treasures of old civilisations. It is well worth a visit if you go there mind, and if you go into the basement you can see the original Louvre that was demolished to make way for the present day buildings. (http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp?bmLocale=en).
Day 4
Well day 4 was in a way a sad day because we had to "come back the smog". But we will definitely return to Paris and hopefully soon!
Paris was great.
When I went there To be honest I was a little bit worried, as I do not really speak any French....Well I had nothing to worry about as the French can speak English better than me!
To be honest I did try to speak a little french & I think that I made some of the locals smile at my attempts.
So anyway what did I (or we as I went with Nicole) get up too?
By the way I have included web links so if you wnat to find out more about where we visited you can.
Day 1
Was the day that we traveled by Eurostar form our great railway Station St Pancras international. We left soon after 9am and was in the centre of Paris by 1pm.
Our next adventure was to travel by the Metro. I call it an adventure as the people I work with had told me that the Paris Metro was a complicated underground network and it was hard to get to different places.
What I found surprising was that when we was standing on the platform waiting for the Metro there was hardly anybody around, then just after the train arrived and we had boarded it there was a mad rush and people appeared from nowhere, and then the train was absolutely packed!
The second train on the underground network that we caught was a total surprise even though it was underground it was a double decker train! I had heard that the overground services were double deckers, but I did not know that these trains were run as a part of the Metro services.
Anyway we managed to find our way really easy, and it was not as bad as expected.
Once we had left the underground we had to find out Hotel. Anyway the Hotel that we stayed at was the: Hotel Eiffel Rive Gauche (http://www.hotel-eiffel.com/hotel_rg_home.htm).
Anyway the Hotel was a nice little place hidden off one of the back streets and it was very quiet.
We did not have a room with a view, but it had everything we needed. what we found funny was when we put on the TV the channel that came on was showing BBC & ITV programmes all dubbed into French, so there was Billy Piper in Doctor Who speaking in French.
After Checking in, Nicole & I decided to take a walk and find somewhere to eat as our hotel did not provide evening meals. As we was staying really close to the Eiffel Tower there was plenty of places to eat...So off we trot.
Once we had found a place to eat our next bit of fun occurred! Nicole looked on the menu and spotted a meal that look like it was a Pitza and as I chose to have the same we ordered it. When the food arrived though it turned out to be a salad.
Day 2
Nicole & I decide to climb the Eiffel Tower (http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/) to level two (That's as far as the public can walk), then we crammed into the elevator and traveled to the top.
Anyway it turns out that I did not like the elevator because it looked like there was nothing holding us to the tower and all I could see out of the window that we was standing next to was the ground far below.
Once we was at the top of the Eiffel Tower though it was great, and all the fear of the distance from the ground to where we was standing was gone. we was extremely lucky on day 1 as the sun decided to shine. So we had great views. (pictures to follow soon!)
In the Afternoon as it was still Sunny but cold, because I had fully got my bearings on Paris we decided that we would walk to Arc De Triumph (http://www.aviewoncities.com/paris/arcdetriomphe.htm), then once we were there we walked the length of the Avenue Des Champs - Elysees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champs-%C3%89lys%C3%A9es) down to Jardin des Tuileries ( http://www.v1.paris.fr/EN/Visiting/gardens/jardin_tuileries.asp) where we continued to the Louvre, which turned out to be closed!
So we went to Notre Dame, and had a look around that.
Day 3
On day 3 the weather had changed and we got up to see that it was pouring down with rain, so as we knew that the Louvre was open we chose to go there. Anyway the place is so big and you would need more that a day to look around it. Not only does the Louve contain art, but also treasures of old civilisations. It is well worth a visit if you go there mind, and if you go into the basement you can see the original Louvre that was demolished to make way for the present day buildings. (http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home.jsp?bmLocale=en).
Day 4
Well day 4 was in a way a sad day because we had to "come back the smog". But we will definitely return to Paris and hopefully soon!
Friday, 28 November 2008
Off On Holiday
Well folk. Old Joolz is off for a week and taking a wander in France.
The last time I was in France it was 1987, and I was down in Central France with my Agricultural College, looking at the local farms and seeing if they did things different to us Brits.
The only conclusion I came to at the time was that the farms were far smaller in the area we was staying. (which I think was between Limoges & Bordeaux)
Soon after our visit the town that we was staying in hit the news (For all the wrong reasons!) as the French farmers went on a rampage because they could not sell their sheep due to cheaper British imports...and two British Lorries were set on fire with the sheep still on board. Soon after that Britain stopped exporting live cattle & sheep.
Anyway this time hopefully nothing like that will happen and we will have a great time exploring the French Capital.
Well I will sign off now & my next post will be a little more interesting (Hopefully!)
So Chow for Now. J
The last time I was in France it was 1987, and I was down in Central France with my Agricultural College, looking at the local farms and seeing if they did things different to us Brits.
The only conclusion I came to at the time was that the farms were far smaller in the area we was staying. (which I think was between Limoges & Bordeaux)
Soon after our visit the town that we was staying in hit the news (For all the wrong reasons!) as the French farmers went on a rampage because they could not sell their sheep due to cheaper British imports...and two British Lorries were set on fire with the sheep still on board. Soon after that Britain stopped exporting live cattle & sheep.
Anyway this time hopefully nothing like that will happen and we will have a great time exploring the French Capital.
Well I will sign off now & my next post will be a little more interesting (Hopefully!)
So Chow for Now. J
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Hello one and all.
This is my first post on my blog, and where do I start? Let me fill you in
Well I have lived in far to many placed in England, and just 2 and a half places in Scotland. you will now ask how can a person live in half a place? You either live there or you don't! In my case when my parents were posted by the Salvation Army to run the Church in Livingston, I moved with them...but I lived at the Agricultural College up the road in a place called Ecclesmachen, and only came home when my course allowed me.
So where else have I lived? well there was Walsall, then there was Shropshire - hence the name "Joolz of Salopia", then there was, and is again London (so London has 4 different places on my list), then North Yorkshire and East Yorkshire which at the time I was living there was North Humberside. Then there was west Loithian, and the Strathclyde, followed by Essex.
So I have been about!
People ask me what is the nicest place that I have lived: Well to be honest I cannot answer that as every town or city has its good & bad.
This is my first post on my blog, and where do I start? Let me fill you in
Well I have lived in far to many placed in England, and just 2 and a half places in Scotland. you will now ask how can a person live in half a place? You either live there or you don't! In my case when my parents were posted by the Salvation Army to run the Church in Livingston, I moved with them...but I lived at the Agricultural College up the road in a place called Ecclesmachen, and only came home when my course allowed me.
So where else have I lived? well there was Walsall, then there was Shropshire - hence the name "Joolz of Salopia", then there was, and is again London (so London has 4 different places on my list), then North Yorkshire and East Yorkshire which at the time I was living there was North Humberside. Then there was west Loithian, and the Strathclyde, followed by Essex.
So I have been about!
People ask me what is the nicest place that I have lived: Well to be honest I cannot answer that as every town or city has its good & bad.
- Walsall for instance I do not know much about as when I lived there I was not even walking.
- Shropshire - now that is a different story as I lived there in my early years, and as a child you always see things through rose coloured glasses.
- London - well its got everything
- Harrogate - was a place that from one point of view I would like to forget, but from another point of view I would like to find out more! What i can tell you is that the house I lived in was on a road directly behind the hotels so when you stepped out the front door you saw the hotels rubbish! (but then rubbish has to go somewhere before it's collected!) because I spoke with a London accent I had so much hassle in school and that is the part that I would want to forget. The town itself is OK.
- next is a city that has a bad write-up....Hull or to name it properly Kingston-Upon- Hull. Now Hull is a really nice place to live - mind at the time I lived there, there was not a lot of work, which is a bit of a "downer".
Well that's a little bit about me....I will tell you some more fairly soon, once I have got back from the City of Paris...So if you live in the city and want a good write up...then be good to me!!!
Joolz.
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