In my blood, I have English, Scottish and Jewish. I am none of these, and yet I am all of these, for I know no borders, - I am a Citizen of The Earth. 

Pete Perry 11th May 2014

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A heartfelt Plea to Family and Friends from Pete Perry:

KEEP YOUR LOVE FOR YOUR NEAREST AND DEAREST ALIVE NOW - BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE

By Pete

The recent sudden passing of Nikki's father, Andrew Heydon, (pictured above with Nikki) has not only forced me to think about my own mortality, but has also brought back memories of those whom I have lost over the years, together with the great consolation that they all departed from this Earth knowing of my love, loyalty and friendship...

My first wife Dorothy Margaret Perry (pictured left with me) died suddenly of a brain haemmorrhage in Blackpool in 1967.

I had just come home from work, kissed her and told her that I loved her, when she collapsed in my arms.

She died two days later, knowing of my deep love for her.

It broke my heart that Vivien (aged Five at the time) would hardly remember her, and Deborah (only 14 months old at the time) wouldn't remember her at all.

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Prior to this terrible tragedy, my Father, Frank Henry Perry (pictured right with my mother) had the mistaken idea that I was following he and my mother around, when, quite coincidentally, he was transferred to Stevenage New Town with his firm Taylor Controls in 1962 with a new Council house to go with the job, at the same time that I had just got a job with Stevenage Urban District Council at the same time, also with the promise of a new Council house.

His feelings ran so high that he refused to talk to me for almost year, totally ignoring me as though I wasn't there, when I visited them at their home in Winns Avenue Walthamstow, despite the fact that I tried to talk to him and explain the reality of the situation. Indeed, it became even worse once we had both moved, because he even refused to let me visit my mother at their new home in Livingstone Link, Stevenage.

I had to meet her whilst shopping in Stevenage Town Centre!

However, in 1963, I recieved a knock on our door in Albert Street, Stevenage one day. It was a workmate of my father's, with a message from my mother, that my father was critically ill in The Old Lister Hospital in Hitchin, Herts, after suffering a massive heart attack.

Dorothy and I, together with our two-year-old daughter Vivien Elizabeth, rushed to the hospital in our little Reliant Regal, to be at his side and to comfort my mother.

Dad was semi-concious, but he opened his eyes as I bent over to kiss him on the forehead. 'I love you dad', I told him.

Next day, he passed away, but I was so glad that I had told him I loved him, after such a ridiculous and totally avoidable misunderstanding.

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Just a couple of years ago, I recieved a phone call from my old pal JOHN RIDLEY, who had previously been my partner in the launch of MOTF Switchboard magazine in 1985.

Now sadly, in 1998, whilst celebrating the start of the New Year, John, fuelled unfortunatety by booze and drugs, suddenly changed from a happy Human Being into some kind of Demon, accusing my wife of the time, Shirley, of 'taking our Uncle Pete away from The Magic Oak Tree Family', and then accusing me of having an affair with his wife Jill (which was totally untrue).

He jumped upon me, pinning me to the sofa, trying to strangle me, and when Shirley tried to pull him off me, he hit back at her, breaking her nose!

Now I never blamed John personally for this, as I knew it was the demons within him, fuelled by drink and drugs. However, Shirley, my wife at the time refused to have any more to do with him, and we lost touch. Eventually, his marriage broke down and John moved with his mother to Wales.

So back to the phone call: 'This is John Ridley', he told me, '-are you going to slam the phone down on me?'

'If you think I'd do that, John, then you don't know me very well', I told him, 'How are you?'

'I didn't really think you would,' He replied, '- once Uncle Pete, - always Uncle Pete! As a matter of fact, mate, I'm not very well. I'm in hospital with Hepititus B, and I'm dehydrating. I just wanted to know that you are still my mate, after all that's happened...'

'Of course I am mate, and always  will be..' I assured him.

We went on to talk about my meeting Nikki, and then we did a bit of reminiscing.

The next day, John passed away, knowing that I always remained his friend, no matter what...

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I have lost many dear friends an family throughout my 77 years, starting in the Forties, during the London Blitz. when many of my schoolmates and some teachers were killed by bombs, through to my best mate Johnny Hartnell, a promising Ballet Dancer, who died at the age of Seventeen, on a Road Traffic Accident on his way to the opening, with his partner, International ballerina Doreen Wells, of their jointly-owned Ballet School in Leytonstone, East London, in 1954, followed by another close friend and partner in FILMART STUDIOS, Derek Soall, who was our cameraman, and introduced me to legendary Roobarb and Custard creator, Bob Godfrey.

Derek died ion the operating table in Walthamstow, following a hernia operation at the age of 24 in 1960'

Derek had just become engaged to his girlfriend Joyce. 

Since then, I have lost my mother, my eldest sister, aunts, uncles, cousis and many more friends...

BUT THE COMFORT I GAIN FROM ALL THESE DEVASTATING LOSSES LAY IN THE FACT THAT ALL THESE DEAR LOVED ONES, FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS LEFT THIS WORLD KNOWING THAT I LOVED THEM AND VALUED THEIR FRIENDSHIPS.

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU CAN FEEL THE SAME IF AND WHEN ANY OF YOUR DEAR ONES LEAVE THIS EXISTENCE UNEXPECTEDLY.

LOVE & PEACE

PETE XX

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FIREBALL IN PIMLICO REALISES PETE'S WARNING OF SPONTANEOUS EXPLOSIONS FROM LOW OZONE.

The recent spontaneous explosion in a man-made hole in Pimlico is just the latest of a series of fireballs that have occurred recently, and the numbers of incidents have been growing year-on-year.

The explosions are said to be sparked by electrical faults, - but that does not explain what is actually causing the explosion.

Well, our Editor, Pete Perry gave us all the answer to this with  warnings in his environmental articles during the Seventies and Eighties,

Take a look at the piece highlighted from his article 'A COUNTY IN DANGER' published in Hertfordshire Countryside...

Starting on the third from bottom paragraph on the right-hand column, Pete clearly writes about the danger of highly combustible 'Low Ozone Smog', which can be triggered off by lightning, - or any other form of ignition such as sparks from faulty wiring.

SO IF PETE KNEW THIS ALL THOSE YEARS AGO, WHY ARE THE AUTHORITIES KEEPING IT FROM US?

Please share your views. 

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MANKIND WILL NEVER ADVANCE IN EVOLUTION UNTIL WE STOP WANTING TO OWN THINGS...  

By Pete & Nikki 

One of the greatest reasons that Mankind will never advance spiritually or even as a species, is due to the fact that we have to own things...

We have to own animals, we have a need to own property, - and we even have a desire to to own our place on the planet. Indeed, we even try to own EACH OTHER! How many married couples regard their spouses as possessions? How many parents regard their children in the same way?

The main reason for war is the fact that some tyrant wants to own another piece of The Planet - Hitler, - and more recently, PUTIN, seem to believe they have the right to take over another country and call it their own.

That is what caused the Iron Curtain to divide East and West Berlin, after WWll, (see pictures)  and it threatens our quest for peace regarding Crimea at the moment.

IN FACT, THE WHOLE WORLD SHOULD BE REGARDED AS OUR DOMAIN, - NOT LITTLE BITS OF IT TO BE OWNED BY INDIVIDUALS, we should all be denizens of the planet, rather than divide it up into separate countries- which is why we disagree with the Eurosceptics like David Cameron and Nigel Farage, and we both believe that being a part of the EU is good for us, and, on the subject of Scotland breaking away from The UK, - that would be a bad move for all concerned.

Whilst we insist on fencing off the land  into separate domains, - at least let us UNITE, and have free trade and movement without restrictions.

PRIDE COMES BEFORE A FALL, AND THE MOST DANGEROUS FORM OF PRIDE IS THE PATRIOTISM - BECAUSE PATRIOTISM EXISTS AS A PART OF POSSESSION, AND POSSESSION LEADS TO GREED , - AND GREED CAUSES MISTRUST, DIVISION, AND EVENTUALLY, - WAR.

Love & Peace

Pete & Nikki

NOTE: Pete was working for a Swedish engineering firm, ASEA, (pictured left) in Walthamstow in the early Sixties, as an imports clerk, at the time when EFTA (The European Free Trade Association, - the forerunner to The EU ) - and has been a champion of closer ties with Europe ever since. He has always maintained that the Union has prevented further wars within Europe:

Pete was two years old when WWll began, and eight years old when it ended, and lived through The Blitz.

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WORLD CITIZENSHIP

AS RUSSIA FLEXES ITS MUSCLES OVER THE UKRAINE, HERE'S A MESSAGE TO THE CITIZENS OF THE WHOLE WORLD FROM NIKKI & PETE:

WE WILL NEVER GET PEACE UNTIL WE GET UNDERSTANDING...

The World belongs to us all - we are all part of this planet, and if we are not careful, we will lose it altogether...

Love & Peace
NIKKI & PETE

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KIDS PLAYING WITH MATCHES -

 That is the way I see the Human Race,

- AND THIS IS WHY...

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 I was born into a world where one World War (The first) had ended just 19 years previously, and the Second World War was about to begin in just another two years.

 King Edward Vlll had abdicated, and his younger brother Bertie (George Vl, see picture on the right) had been thrust into the role of King.

So I was born into this world of uncertainty, in the middle of The Great Depression, which was world-wide.

In this country, across Europe and in The USA, people couldn't find work, and the poor had to rely upon hand-outs and soup kitchens. (Sound familar?)

Indeed, things were so bad for my parents and two older sisters, that when my mother discovered that she was pregnant in August 1936, she tried to abort me, and even fell down the stairs, as she was so weak with hunger, weighing only six stones! 

Despite this, I hung on and was born 10 months later on 30th June 1937, weighing in at 10 lbs, which almost killed my mother. (There was no NHS in those days!)

In the First World War, they had started bombing cities in The UK with Airships, and in the Second World War, they had developed the V1 Flying Bombs, and the V2 Rockets.

It ended with The USA dropping of The Atom Bomb on Hiroshima, and everyone was horrified at the sheer atrocity of its destruction, as nobody was really sure how powerful this evil weapon really was!

KIDS PLAYING WITH MATCHES!

We have mined the good Earth for precious metals, precious stones, chalk, slate, coal, peat, and other so-called 'Natural Resources', without knowing why Nature laid them down in into the good Earth the first place, - and we wonder why the holes we leave behind under our feet collapse, and sink holes open up in motorways and on housing estates after periods of heavy rainfall!

KIDS PLAYING WITH MATCHES!

We are extracting every ounce of crude oil and gas from rocks beneath our feet, and deep in the sea bed, - again, without knowing why Nature took billions of years to turn rotting vegetation and animal remains into what we child-like and petulant Humans call 'Natural Resources' - as though it was put there for our sole use. IT WASN'T!

WHAT IF IT WAS ACTUALLY PUT THERE FOR SOME GREATER PURPOSE, SUCH AS - TO PROTECT THE EARTH FROM CLIMATE CHANGE, OR TO LUBRICATE THE CONTINENTAL TECTONIC PLATES TO PREVENT SUPER-EARTHQUAKES?

 A BIT LATE NOW, ISN'T IT?

KIDS PLAYING WITH MATCHES!

Not only do we burn oil in the form of petrol in our motor vehicles and other forms of machinery, we also turn other by-products into plastic, which never rots, and chokes animals and birds to death when they become entangled in it.

We also allow it to spill it out to sea and in our rivers, coating sea creatures and sea birds in crude oil and threatening their very existence- so not only are we using up something which nature may have had a Grand Plan for, we are also polluting our air, oceans and rivers into the bargain, - and killing our fellow creatures on this planet... 

KIDS PLAYING WITH MATCHES!

Politicians, after they have been found out misbehaving, or making genuine mistakes, have a habit of re-iterating that old worn-out phrase, 'There are lessons to be learned'. Well, - that is all very well and good if, indeed, they DID learn lessons from their mistakes and misdemeanors.

The trouble is, they never DO!!

We have suffered air, water and soil pollution through the misuse of oil and other chemicals, we have caused suffering and even death from oil-soaked wildlife, whilst the practice of fracking, common in The USA has been proved to cause earthquakes, as well as water pollution - AND YET POLITICIANS, INCLUDING THE UK GOVERNMENT, INSIST THAT FRACKING IS THE 'ONLY WAY FORWARD\!' 

(See our environment page)

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?

KIDS PLAYING WITH MATCHES! 

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