Happy new year to all my readers

Happy new year to all my readers.
So on to chapter three. Why do you think the engagement ring meant so much to Diana?Post me you answers on the comments page or to my Thin_Air1@msn.com e-mail.


In Western tradition, an engagement ring is a ring worn by a woman indicating her engagement to be married. Conventionally, the ring is presented as a betrothal gift by a man to his prospective spouse while he proposes marriage or directly after she accepts his marriage proposal. It represents a formal agreement to future marriage.
In some countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, it is worn on the left-hand ring finger, while in other countries, such as Poland and Ukraine, it is customary for the ring to be worn on the right-hand. Similar traditions date back from an early usage reportedly referring to the fourth finger of the left hand as containing the vena amoris or "vein of love".
In some states of the United States, engagement rings are considered "conditional gifts" under the legal rules of property. This is an exception to the general rule that gifts cannot be revoked once properly given. In the United Kingdom, the gift of an engagement ring is presumed to be an absolute gift to the fiancée.
Dodi Fayed bought £11,000 engagement ring for Diana
The Guardian, Friday 19 October 2007
Article history by Stephne Bates
· Visit to jeweller's hours before couple's fatal crash · Princess was never given purchase, inquest jury told
Dodi Fayed, the son of the Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed, did buy Princess Diana an £11,600 engagement ring a few hours before the couple's death in the Paris crash in 1997, though he had no chance to give it to her, the inquest jury heard yesterday.
The jury, sitting in the high court, was shown grainy CCTV footage from the Repossi jeweller's shop, across the square from the Ritz hotel in Paris, taken the afternoon before the crash. It showed Dodi Fayed, who was not accompanied by the princess, surrounded by staff as he inspected rings before leaving with a brochure.
Later footage showed Claude Roulet, assistant to the president of the Ritz hotel, visiting the shop and taking an item in a bag to the couple's room in the hotel's Imperial suite. The bag was deposited in the hotel strongroom before the couple went to Dodi's flat elsewhere in the city.
A ring bearing the inscription "Dis-moi Oui" ("Tell me Yes") was recovered from the flat after the couple's death. A receipt dated August 30 1997, the day before the crash, listing a "bague de fiançaille" (engagement ring), was also recovered.

Happy reading

Chapter Two

This chapter is going to be focused on written work and opinions.
Do you think there were lots of affairs during the second world war between Americans and French women? How many single French women had American fathered babies during occupation by the American and allied forces?

Do you think Jacques father was typical, in so much that he recognised his son and wanted to marry her?


How do you think Mr. Robson’s American family felt about Jacques? Did they welcome him with open arms?

Tell me what you think of the double agent Jacques.

If you are good at drawing I would love your picture of Jacques. If you are not good at drawing please tell me which actor would make a good Jacques?


I wish to thank all the people who have bought my book and apologise for not getting back to this blog until now. Actually I am writing the film script of my book.

It is Diana´s aniversary today, 12 years have gone by

Lady Diana Spencer had been on holiday in Sardinia with her boyfriend and was killed in a traffic accident in Paris. Or was she? Maybe there was a conspiracy, or more than one, to kill her or make her dissapear.To Bill Blaggott it was just another job.To Mr. Fye a member of MI5 it was an operation. To Jacqueline Bonhomie it was the start of a disasterous day.

I would like to join in with this tribute
http://ow.ly/nmJa

Reading Comprehension Questions

Well Thin Air (ISBN 9781438995564.) is available now on Authorhouse.com, Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com
For those of you who have got a copy here goes the first lot of questions for
CHAPTER ONE

How did Jacqueline feel about waking up alone?
Tell me the sequence of events that happened when she woke up in the mornings.
What had happened to her boyfriend?
What was her boyfriend’s name?
Why do you think her boyfriend left her?
What was her boyfriend’s job?
What remedy did she use to prevent a nervous attack?
What did Jacqueline and her boyfriend sometimes do together with his laptop?
How did this make her feel?
Can you imagine Jacqueline?
Send me a drawing or photo of Jacqueline.
Did her boyfriend ask her to marry him?
Who was her street named after?
Do you know anything about this person?
How did he die?
What did she have for breakfast?
Who made it for her?
What is the nearest underground station to her house?
What did her work mates say to her about her rupture with her boyfriend?
What was the weather like in August of 1997?
What colours were in fashion that summer?
Where station did she get off at to go to work?
What was Jacqueline’s job?
Did she like it?
Why would you drop someone like a hot brick?
What do you think Jacqueline would have said to her boyfriend if she had bumped into him? Set the scene and write the dialogue.

Please answer the questions and post them on the blog. If you have any difficulty please e-mail them to me on Thin_Air1@msn.com
Enjoy

Opps the link http://www.authorhouse.com/bookstore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid

Thin Air is on sale

Just as promised, right on scheduel, my book is now available on the authorhouse link above.

Also as promised here goe the listening comprehension questions for the video Who Killed Priincess Diana. If you haven´t already seen it click on
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2402759241963653626
have fun answering these questions;

1)What car were they traveling in?
2)Was another car involved?
3)Was an other vehicle involved?
4)What did Dodi´s father think?
5)What is the name of the tunnel?
6)What exam had Henri Paul taken three days before the accident?
7)Who were arrested after the accident?
8)Who had tapes of Diana´s telephone calls?
9)Who was going to be a victim of a similar accident in a tunnel?
10)Who did Diana fear?

Enjoy

Thin Air: Countdown 15 days

Well only 15 days before Thin Air is launched.
The fist person who can discover the deliberate mistake in the presentation above gets a signed copy of my book.