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Dear Warren, I've not been around here much lately myself. Been traveling on business and just too whipped to check in. I'm happy to see you're happy. Love your upcoming tat, too. Regarding spending $800 for the tattoo: it's important to realize that, just like dieting, we all have to eat. We have to allow ourselves to have some fun while we strive for the larger goal. If, for example, you didn't spend anything on yourself for a year, it's likely that you'd fall off the wagon and find yourself splurging everything, snd then really feeling horrible. It's better to allow yourself some fun, my friend. Rome, and Warren, wasn't built in a day, Emma

Hiya Warren. The tattoo is Amazing, Young Man. When it is shadowed and detailed, it Will be a Work Of Art, that You - Warren, Will be able to be Very Proud of. Now that I look forward to seeing Completed. Warren, I Am very Glad that other thing's are going better for You as well, and cutting Yourself off, communications wise, with someone who just wants to fight and argue with You All the time, I can understand, as II did that with a lot of Family, and Family-Friend's, nearly 20 Year's ago. I will Not ever have contact with them again ! Warren, it is always Great to hear from You in Your blogs, and may everything go from strength to strength for You. Warren, Take Care, and My Very Best Wishes, Stephanie. xoxo

Following on from my previous entry whilst on holiday, we had a day out in southern Belgium, now most towns in the Ardennes have a castle, a church, a river, and a WW2 Tank (normally a US Sherman, although Houfalize has a German Panther but no castle!). La Roche en Ardenne must be a more important town than most as it has two tanks - a British Achilles Mk10 tank destroyer and a US Sherman, it's where UK and US forces met when pushing back the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. But an even more important sign of the towns importance was the Bunting along the main street, it was made up entirely of bras, there was also a display on the town hall too. After walking around the town, we had a meal in an Ardennais restaurant, well if we have gone all that way, we want to sample the local food, rather than international food. We had Civet de Marcassin which is wild boar stew, and if you've never tasted wild boar and you like meat generally, you've missed out! Anyway photo's are of the bra bunting, I was amazed at it...............& of the WW2 reminders. Cheers, Eve

Eve, I am a WWII history fanatic, and I really enjoyed your photos, even the ones with the bras!

I've been sooo busy just recently, preparing for hols and also cramming in work, then going on Holiday to Luxembourg via the Channel Tunnel with our Land Rover and Caravan, stopping overnight in Northern France then driving through Belgium to Esch sur Sure where we spent just under two weeks. When we got back I had to attend a Charing Cross GIC appointment yesterday after catching up with two weeks worth of work e-mails, and then today again busy all day at work...............it's a hard life ! So Esch sur Sure, we pitched up the caravan and went out most days to other parts of the Ardennes including Germany and Southern Belgium which I think I'll cover with subsequent entries. The little village of Esch is situated on the River Sure which is a tributary of the Mosel (or Moselle en Francais), it also forms a large part of the border betweeen Germany and Luxembourg a bit further downstream. It's a in a lovely setting inside a loop of the river at the bottom (well aren't all rivers??) of a deep and steep gorge like valley, see the photo's and I hope videos if they can be attached? It rained a hell of a lot but it didn't spoil the holiday, we went out walking along the river and through the woods on the valley sides on days when we didn't go out farther afield via the Land Rover. Cheers for now, Eve IMG_1400.m4v IMG_1399.m4v

Eve, I have visited Luxembourg decades ago and found it beautiful!