The next time I shall be able to have the 29th February on my blog will be in 2016 (if I am still living!). I really don't have anything to say except for that. You can find out about leap years on wikipedia as well as a list of the next, quite a few leap years.
It must be great to add a year every 4 years. Does it mean that when you are 40 you are 160 or 10?
De prétendues « thérapies » destinées à « guérir » l’homosexualité doivent-elles être prises en charge par l’assurance-santé ? Le débat s’est emparé d’un des pays les plus tolérants en matière de mœurs. A la suite de protestations au Parlement de LaHaye, la ministre néerlandaise de la Santé, Edith Schippers, a déclaré ne pas comprendre comment une institution psychiatrique d'inspriation chrétienne, habilitée par l'Etat, avait pu qualifier des "traitements contre l'homosecualité" de "soins médicaux", ouvrant droit au remboursement par les mutuelles. Mais des élus chrétiens conservateurs en jugent autrement. Pour eux, des gays issus d'un milieu religieux traditionnel et souffrant de leur sexualité doivent pouvoir être "traités" aux frais de la collectivité. Ils ont reçu le soutien de 162 médecins et religieux juifs - dont le grand rabbin d'Amsterdam -, qui jugent que l'homosexualité est bel et bien une "maladie pouvant être soignée". "Un point de vue abject", ont dénoncé des militants gays juifs néerlandais. Le grand rabbin a été suspendu.
Depuis toujours les minorités ont été stigmatisé et depuis peu en occident on accepte que d'être gay n'est pas une maladie mais un fait - on est comme ça! Que se passe-t-il?
I love it when we get up and the sky is blue, the sun is shining.
J'écoute Radio 4 en ce moment et ils parlent du fait que l'application pour smartphone envoie de l'information sur nos textes vers leurs serveurs.
We'll become more like the French, what does that mean? No more skeletons in closets. Ah ils parlent des articles de presses sur la vie privée des personnes publiques.
Bon, on continue un peu notre tour des années 70 et 80.
Mort Shuman - Papa Tango Charlie
Gilbert Montagné - The Fool
Jeannette - Porque te vas
David Martial - Celimène
Plastic Bertrand - Ca plane pour moi
Renaud - Mon Beauf
Et on continuera à un autre moment! / To be continued!
I needed a break so this week, being a short holiday in some Universities in Lyon, I made the most of it and went away. I took the camper - which is having a few problems at the moment:
I need to change the water pump, so there was no running water
I need to change the switch on the shower - although as there was no running water this didn't matter too much
I need to have the gas looked at, as neither the fridge nor the cooker is working
I need to change the only bulb which is difficult to get to!
But despite all of this we had a good time. OK hot water was boiled up on the second stove and then poured using a cup over myself to wash but the heating worked so it was warm and we could cook.
Anyway, Nîmes was good then we went to a small fishing village and I mean just that, it is still a small village: Niolon, France.
Then we went to Callelongue, just near Marseille
We looked up and thought it might be an idea to go up the moutain to the 3 caves
Going up on the yellow trail was not that easy!
The first cave
Nikos the 'bear' (pity it is a little out of focus)
Perhaps it is just that it is Sunday and a little grey but I am feeling nostalgic. I've just been watching and listening to a TV programme I recorded some months ago and have not had the time to watch till today. It was just about the popular songs of the 70s and 80s. Songs that I know but could never give a name to: neither the singer (well not always) nor the song. So for those of you feeling a little like a bit of nostalgia, here are some links. Just let me say that I have lived in France since the early 1980s so some of the music, much of it, is French.
Jean-Jacques Goldman - Pas toi
Joe Dassin - Eté Indien
Christophe - Les mots bleus
Mike Brant - Laisse moi t'aimer
Julien Clerc - Ma Préférance
A pity I can't find one of the older versions!
Julio Iglesias - Manuela
Frederci François - Mon coeur le dit que je t'aime
Sacha Distel - Le Soleil de ma vie
Yes, that is Brigitte Bardot
Michel Sardoo - Les Femmes des années 80.
The singer is Michel Sardou but the clip is something else. Universal Music is blocking loads of stuff!! Oh yes, they don't make enough money.
