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

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.

• 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.