Here I am at the edge

 The USA saves Europe. To me, Christmas is a time of remembrance and thanksgiving. I am thankful for the entrance of the USA into WW2; without them, there would be no life as we know it today. In the winter of 1944, the Germans made a final push to cut the Allies off from the port of Antwerp ; if they had succeeded, Europe would have been under German control within weeks.  The tank onslaught known as The Battle of the Bulge resulted from  French stupidity; again, the same result almost happened in WW1. Only the reluctance of the Imperial German Army commander halted the von Schlieffen plan,  which was the same as what happened in 1944; only Hitler almost pulled it off. The French's error is that tanks could not be driven through the Ardennes woods; the Germans proved they could, and if bad weather hadn't slowed them down, they would have probably succeeded. Another major factor was that the rains forced the fronts to be massed rather than act as a twin attack. The A...

  Medical Staff I am giving thanks to the wonderful staff at the Bristol Royal Infirmary for saving my wife's life. I will never know who you are, but you have the eternal thanks from my family

  Vajont Dam disaster In my opinion the best option for energy is Hydro-electricity ; after all, nearly every country has a large rainfall; not that HE does not have its downfalls, as the people of Ereto e Casso , a village 62 miles north of Venice found out when the dam nearby brached its banks in 1963. Due to unusually high rainfall, part of the valley subsided into the dam causing a megatsumani over 250 feet high as the water was pushed into an increasingly smaller funnel and increasing its power. Several villages in the locality were destroyed causing 200, 000 deaths. The incident occured because the governement and the company concealed scientific evidence that part of the valley was unstable and could collapse at any time. The dam has since been drained and is now the site of a memorial to the lives lost.

The biggest danger I support Marine Le Pen in most of her concepts, but there is one idea that no politicain or scientist will be able to convince me is safe, that is nuclear energy  is the way of the future. This generation can recall Chernobyl , it WILL happen again; the history of nuclear energy is scattered with such events from Windscale in the UK to Three Mile Island in the USA ; then there was the Karen Silkwood murder which the powers that be put down her to her smuggling Plutonium out of a plant. The element was planted in her car, which was forced off the road, because she was going to expose unsafe working conditions at the plant. Ask yourself this question, how can an energy source that has a half-life, that means half of the danger has passed in the time, be considered safe when the half-life goes into thousands of years, as many of the elements either used or created in the energy are?

  My Sporting Days There are ways in which I can relate to the central character in the film " Loneliness of the long distance runner ." The film is based on a book by Alan Sillitoe . Unlike him, I was not escaping from a life in borstal, I was escaping from my academic failures in school; while I was never good at short distance running I came into my own in long distance running as I could go on a run for hours, I was the same when I was swimming while my physique was a hinderance for racing it was ideal for swimming long distances. I could never have been a contest swimmer, the main reason is you are bound by rules to turn your head every other stroke whereas I take a breath and swam until I needed to breathe.

  British weather Typical of the UK weather , our house has two variations of what may arrive. Out the back it looks like a late Summer's day, and out the front it looks as though it could snow , which some forecasts say may happen but I've been reading that for weeks now.

  Buying from Israel Moon and Son It may surprise you, but I can get DVDs from this site in Israel    https://ioffer-movies.com/   faster than I can from the EU , and another advantage is they have a far greater variety; especially if you are looking for older series as I usually do.