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.