THE PERIODICAL NEWS FROM ALI HOAD

It's been a long time since I last posted 

on this Blog

It's 5th April 2018 and there's a lot that has happened to me since I last did a post for this blog in 2009.

Back in those days I'd worked for Jireh Construction and Miracle Street, New Community Church, and since that time I've worked for South Coast Port Services Agency, in Southampton Docks as a car and van driver, loading and unloading RoRo (Roll on Roll off)

ships with both import and export vehicles. As well as the car and van work I also work on some of the cruise ships that arrive and depart  from Southampton as well.

RoRo ship Manon arriving
at Southampton Western Docks

Shocking Green BMW arriving in the UK

When I work the Cruise ships it can be either Baggage, or Park and Ride, when I take and park cars when their owners go off and don't want to worry about parking their cars. 

   Sunrise over the Jungle Migrant Camp

  The main high-lite of my time in Southampton has been the time I was away from the county for six months, working in what was The Jungle Migrant Camp in Calais. 

My Home for Six Months

This was a trip organised by Miracle Street who wanted to put a useful presence into the camp to help the refugees and migrants. The job I was set to run was the supply of electricity for mobile phone and portable appliance charging. This was done initially with the generator on-board the main-stage trailer but ended up using a midi-sized generator bought in when the main-stage generator died with high oil pressure. This couldn't be repaired on site. This was a job that ran itself during the day once set up and then pack down at the end of the day was a simple job. Eventually an additional job came to light in the form of bicycle maintenance and so that was an ongoing job until the time we pulled out. Between these jobs I was able to practically assist in carpentry jobs and other miscellaneous jobs that the camp occupants needed to have done, that they didn't have the means to do themselves. The time there was such a nice period in my life and, contrary to the news 

My Neighbours outside the trailer

Our primary role in the camp mobile
phone and portable appliance charging

   reports of the time the migrants were so friendly the help was reciprocal when needed. 

   The Police Officers that were responsible for Camp Safety and Security were the National  Riot Police and this is what has been written about them and their actions in the camp proved this information was correct                                                               

These words are not mine but the sentiments I completely agree with.

This is only an outline of what I did for six months and at some stage I will post a more extensive story of that time. 


Over the time after I returned from France, I managed to return to the docks job and am still doing well in it. It's the only job where I can be really be flexible in when I want to work and it means that if there's something else I want to do, I can easily have time off to do it. 
Anyway more will follow pretty soon so this is it for the moment......