Down town Orléans, right where the Rosbifs called out for Fish and Chips. You can still see the ketchup.
So how is Ségo doing? As you can read in the newspapers she has made quite a few ‘gaffes’, especially on foreign policy. Though there are so many, one starts to suspect it's a strategy. Surprisingly she seems to be turning the corner.
Of course the opinion polls are showing her with a small deficit to Sarko, but it remains small and if she can recover credibility then she can still win.
Probably the biggest coup was the Canard Enchainé information on the Renseignements general. This is the French KGB who had investigated a colleague of Ségo. It did not look too nasty of itself. The French are tolerant of the RG because they have a pretty realistic opinion as to what the world is like. They prefer having these types of snoopers, with accompanying strong arm tactics, to the attacks on the New York World Trade Centre and a war in
Sarko also looks nasty because of the Dehan incident. Imitating the prime minister of
Ségo’s off in the
Her relationship with Hollande will probably run and run. It looks like their ‘partnership’ is pretty rocky. Hollande has certainly not been too much of a gentleman so far. One suspects that her kids were born by immaculate conception and she’s not too cuddly between the sheets, or at least not with Hollande. Where has Hollande been getting his little ‘gâteries’? Still Sarko is studiously avoiding that territory, where he probably has a pretty patchy record as well. The French press as usual is also steering clear of ‘personal’ questions. Come on now, give the gallery a bit of fun!!!
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Could you please explain what you mean by 9/12? What is the significance of that date? Is it 12th September or 9th December?
Stupid Americanisms. I've changed the text.
You still seem to be playing Sarah's game here, Richard, with adding or subtracting to words.
But what would the Academie Française have to say about that, I wonder ? I refer to the redundant circumflex over the "u" of dur, and the extra "t" in gâterie. C'est de trôpp !
Seulement un gâteux ne sait pas écrire "gâterie" correctement.
OK I think I've fixed those problems. Word unfortunately isn't able to check French and English on the same text. Once you've realised that adress is spelt one way in English, another way in French, but means the same thing, spelling goes out the window anyway.
Anne Thanks for visiting. I will look into the date/time. The date is OK no? Admittedly the time is weird.
Anee How about that? Is it satisfactory now?
Hippo has no more holiday snaps to show us and has gone off in a sulk.
Sorry about the Anee, it was meant to be Anne
How about that? Sorry can't do a capital on the month. It is a little French flavour, we don't do capitals on months.
I suspect we will rediscover the Hippo tracks. In a china shop maybe.
How can anyone believe that this photo of such a dreary, desolate scene could be part of that earthly paradise Richard of Orleans keeps drooling on about? It's halfway to Wigan Pier.
Holiday snaps ? I don't do holiday snaps, unless it's having chunks fall off the Eiger. That's why you didn't hear about our trip to Monza and the Italian lakes last summer, or to Dovedale over Christmas.
If you must fire missiles, at least aim them accurately. Yours are about as effective as those Scuds of Saddam Hussein's that hit the wrong country.
PS: And "Anne Gilbert", as she calls her(?)self , doesn't fool anyone with the deliberate spelling and punctuation mistakes. Or the intermittent reversion to the dippy persona when needing some protective colouring.
Just say who you really are, Anne Gilbert, and what your purpose is, or has been, ever since you arrived simultaneously with "James Hamilton" on that CR thread. James Hamilton, we subsequently learned, was a mischief-making alias of Bill Taylor (Toronto Star).
Go figure, as they say.
Well I'm sorry you don't find it attractive. It was indeed a cold overcast winter day with no leaves on the trees and the reeds mainly dead and dried out. I personally find the lowlight on the water, the bare branches, the dried grasses, the sand bars an attrative winter scene. You have to remember this is the centre of Orleans. The bridge is dead centre. I find it extraordinary to find this wild river scene in the centre of a conurbation of 250, 000 people. The water is clean, often there are fishermen and people kayaking or doing other water sports.
The island in the background is where the English were camped out before the battle with Joan of Arc, I was standing about 30 m away from the spot where the major battle occured. It was at the entry to the bridge crossing the Loire. Not the one in the picture, which replaced the Joan of Arc bridge in the 18th century.The new bridge is about 20 m closer to me than the preceding one.
Go figure, as they say, where Colin Berry's obsessive little mind is. The master of the alias, the shooter-from-cover par excellence, can't forget that I once adopted a nom-de-plume -- chiefly to see how long it would take Colin Randall to piece together the clues I was dropping for him. And I freely admitted it. As Colin Randall will attest, I'm just now back from four well-below-zero days in Quebec City, celebrating my wife's birthday, staying in a lovely B&B in a stunning historic house, meeting old friends, eating and drinking extremely well, and blessedly nowhere near a computer. For the record, and for the final time of saying, Anne Gilbert is not me and I am not Anne Gilbert.
There are two unresolved issues where I'm concerned. One is the true identity of "Anne Gilbert".
But if Bill Taylor says he's not AG, then I'm prepared to accept his word.
So why's he not prepared to accept that I have a real daughter, called Miriam, who spontaneously, of her own volition, briefly posted her protest at the things that Bill Taylor and Richard of Orléans were saying about me ?
Why was he recently referring to me as "invoking" her, and placing quotation marks around "daughter", as if she were an invention. He expects me to believe him, while effectively branding me a rogue and liar.
Which leads on to my main complaint against Bill Taylor: his capacity to misrepresent someone he perceives as the enemy. He has tried in the past to portray me as having fascist sympathies, or racist politics, based on placing the most uncharitable construction on things I have said in all innocence. I have described particular instances in the past, but he refuses to retract his absurd allegations.
The reality is that my politics are somewhat right of centre, but leavened with a humanist tendency to "live-and-let-live". I have never ever been attracted to extremist politics of any sort.
Yes, I do have an obsession, Bill Taylor. It's to do with your constant misrepresentation. If you could just stop that, as well the putdowns and mudslinging, the winding-up, as you put it, then I'm sure that we can at least co-exist.
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