John Hamilton Palmer

In response to:You Know You Went to an International School When...

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:32:26 +0100

Bonsoir, Just checking in. Noticed your last bloggeau activity was 72 days ago. Not good. Hope you're doing okay. Would be nice to know how you're getting on, mon brave. Toodle pip and if I don't hear from you beforehand, have a jolly old Noel et Hogmanay. Best wishes, Gordon.

In response to:You Know You Went to an International School When...

Sat, 03 May 2008 08:38:15 +0200

Hello, John !

How true and weird to read those lines I would have asked some people to read before declaring me just that : WEIRD

How conforting to feel we have peers unknown with same feelings about space, time and people without making conferences out of it.

Always happy to read you even if it´s less often than I'd wish.

So, I read(but not enough) you and Paul are heading to London ? happy you be together wherever it be.

I'm right now in Torremolinos taking care and organizing my father's new life. Of course I'm not exactly alone ! Too many itchy decisions to take and mainly dealing with the way each person sees life and humanity.

So I spend 1/3 of my time making emailed reports just to get a family circle over half the world to decide ... how to deal with all this. Local concepts seem, of course, so middleaged to me. My strategy to go out for results must be so fine and rehearsed with cultural screen changes before revealing it in what must appear as normal, evident simpleness to be matched where lies and silenced deeds used with much more facility to rub differences.

Conforting to read the line on spelling and best friends unique bond.

all the best for you and your dear ones.
Yoli

In response to:You Know You Went to an International School When...

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:08:42 +0200

And I think we've settled in London, but who knows. Back in Miami at the moment dealing with shippers and containers and insurance, then it's off to a remote hideaway with Paul (who gets itchy feet too). Planning to return to London when the furniture gets there. And not a moment before.

In response to:You Know You Went to an International School When...

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:13:02 +0200

Interesting posting. Know whadya mean.

I'm no jetsetter but I've been around. As the son of an army officer I was born in England but immediately moved to Austria. First language I spoke was German/English/Scottish. Then moved to Gibraltar aged four. Spoke Spanish. Hit England aged nine. School hols in Africa. Had itchy feet ever since. Twelve schools, four colleges, countless jobs and homes. I think I've settled in France... but not sure. Still have itchy feet.

Howya getting on a Londres?

P.S. - When I'm pished I natter in a confusing mixture of different lingos, all of them totally incomprehensible. Am fluent in jibberish. Liver confounds science.

In response to:You Know You Went to an International School When...

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:10:00 +0200

Glad you liked it. The original article was much, much longer. In the end I decided to reprint only the ones that I related to most. Some of my cohorts got up to much worse, and behaved rather shabbily, I'm afraid. One contributor begged us all to remember the days when we would have had to send for the chauffeur to bail us out of jail. Naturally, I have no memories of the sort. I never had a chauffeur.

In response to:You Know You Went to an International School When...

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:00:25 +0200

Personally, Ian, my own liver has kept its waspish figure, although it's a good job I'm not licensed to drive, as my post-sundowner slump is best suited for the backseat.

In response to:You Know You Went to an International School When...

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:26:54 +0200

My nomadic youth was all in one country, the US, but, since I work in a technical field, I know many people who either grew up or were born overseas. I can relate even if it's not all applicable to me personally. Very funny.

In response to:You Know You Went to an International School When...

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:51:20 +0200

I know a few people who have a passport but no driver's licence John, they also have enlarged livers :-)

One of my friends at gather.com had a mobile childhood, I'll post her a link to this, it will make her smile.

In response to:Incognito (ad Interim)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:16:18 +0100

Not so much an early riser, more a late kipper. Nodded off in front of the telly... again. Very pleasant nights a ce moment. Clear starry skies, touch of frost and a full moon tonight. Parfait for very late dogwalking strolls up to the granite cross and back. Moonshadows across track from high trees. Beats all that ghastly, orange, sodium lighting back in the cesspit across the channel.

In response to:Incognito (ad Interim)

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:06:50 +0100

What an early riser you are! Isn't it still the middle of the night in your neck of the woods?

I think you're right though.

In response to:Incognito (ad Interim)

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:14:38 +0100

Er..., nah. But he got the message.

In response to:Random Shots of New York

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:14:17 +0100

you're so nice... See u soon again

In response to:Random Shots of New York

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:50:44 +0100

Je suis venu te remercier pour ces mots. C'est une chanson, la chanson de l'amitie et l'amour tous les deux. Traversant de le coeur de Lyon sur l'Atlantique comme une vague. Merci mille fois.

X

In response to:Random Shots of New York

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:14:14 +0100

Love to follow your footsteps on earth surface...

scary dark Apple... after beachndsundpaul !!!

bisous-big-bisous !!!
yoli

my john skipped over me... I skipped over the ocean over and over and right now stepping in Lyon at my 2boys couple wonderful magic friends !!! I'm sure lucky, so lucky !!! Life goes on feeling free as a bird.

We must go on and never forget what good and great we were and will again be.

Soooo happy to know your hearts are linked so tight.

In response to:Random Shots of New York

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:41:33 +0100

I am fine(ish)

I have seen the pictures of Paul, he looks so happy and contented, you both do. It makes me smile when I see the pictures.

And yes he looks like a surfer :))

In response to:Random Shots of New York

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:52:55 +0100

Ah Lyndlj,

And how are you?

Have you seen Paul lately? He looks like a surfer.

X

In response to:Random Shots of New York

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:47:48 +0100

No, I suppose not. Looking back at the photos I see they're not very appealing. But they certainly captured the mood I was in at the time.

In response to:Random Shots of New York

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:17:51 +0100

LOL, you have become such a beach bum :))

Hope everything is fine with you both :) xx

In response to:Random Shots of New York

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:43:56 +0100

Looking forward to accounts of people and thangs. Photos don't exactly make me want to drop everything and rush to book a Nouvelle Yoik air ticket...

In response to:Winter Blues?

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:27:48 +0100

Perv!

Hang on, I think I know you.

X

In response to:Winter Blues?

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:47:09 +0100

Sexy trunks.

X

In response to:Winter Blues?

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:13:24 +0100

Hi Phine,

You are welcome anytime. I'm actually spending a few days in New York (it's Fashion Week, don't ya know) and woke up this morning to find that most unwelcome sight. Snow!

I'm beginning to really miss the beach and I've only been gone a day or two.

In response to:Winter Blues?

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:09:53 +0100

Thank you.

Thank you.

X

In response to:Winter Blues?

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:29:51 +0100

o'oer!nice bum, great beach. can i come visit?:)

In response to:Winter Blues?

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:35:25 +0100

I totally agree, hoping to take a little of that beach attitude back with us to good ol' soho.....
xxM

ps love the green togs!

In response to:Winter Blues?

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:35:21 +0100

I totally agree, hoping to take a little of that beach attitude back with us to good ol' soho.....
xxM

ps love the green togs!

In response to:Winter Blues?

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:29:13 +0100

Aha! So you survived the tornado mentioned in a previous posting and you're still being a beach bum. Excellent. Divine beachwear modelled by the three old trouts!

In response to:Storm's A'Coming

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:58:54 +0100

Long time no hear. What's going on down there? Did you survive both Noel the Storm and Noel the festivity? Gimme news...

In response to:Storm's A'Coming

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:58:09 +0100

Long time no hear. What's going on down there? Did you survive both Noel the Storm and Noel the festivity? Gimme news...

In response to:With Bowed Head and Giddy Heart

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:09:15 +0100

Hi there, it's been a looooong time since I've been blogging and of course, your page was the first I looked up. I hope you and Paul are well and I'm delighted to hear of your sunny move to a more suitable climate. It's so damp and dreicht in Scotland at the moment, I'm considering a flit myself but alas, I have far too much baggage....and I'm sure that's a good thing but still, one can dream.

Are you on Facebook? I find that to be my cafe of choice for a quick soiree these days. If so, I'd love it if you looked me up.

Take care!