May you live in interesting times

First Brexit.

Then Trump.

Not to mention various other fascinating situations, like Venezuela, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, etc..

Now we heard yesterday that our beloved Mayor of Bordeaux, M. Juppé, is leaving.

He's been asked to sit on the French constitutional committee and was given 24 hours to give his decision.

He loves the city of Bordeaux and has presided over its transformation. The trams are from his mandate. The quotes were transformed from inner city wasteland to waterfront gardens. Our area is one of his projects. He's quick, funny, positive, optimistic and his watchword is moderation.

He was banned from public office for 18 months in, I think, 2003, because of his implication in the Paris fictitious jobs scam that siphoned funds into someone's electoral campaign illegally, if I remember rightly. He ceded the job to his deputy, Hugues Martin, went to Canada to lecture at a university and afterwards came back and resumed his work.

I'll miss him terribly.

Then today we heard that the Airbus A380 programme is over. In 2005 we saw the first wings float down the river Dee near our home. Here in Bordeaux we regularly see the barges marked "A380 on board" going up and down the river.

We'll miss them terribly and we really hope there won't be too may job losses, especially in North Wales.




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