Mr Speaker joins me for a curry

The speaker of The House Of Commons joins myself and Mr Thonton Allan at a curry house in Winslow

As my friend Mark Gurdon remarked yesterday “May the fourth be with you” – should have been yesterdays title! I see his speech impediment is not improved by living in England…A visit to the Nags Head in Winslow where men are men and sheep are nervous, to stay at nearby Horwood House and to see old (and I mean old) pals Dave Ell, Doddy and Colin O Dell and then a curry before an early night preparing for the expensive farce of a public enquiry today in Aylesbury .  After arrival in the  “city of the trees” Milton Keynes, but thankfully not for long, I leave as fast as possible for sleepy Winslow. Mr Thornton Allan, who is also in England this week, and I are talking deeply and earnestly about how to fix the countries ills.  Somone must have alerted The Speaker Of The House Of Commons, John Bercow, to our learned discussions because as my picture shows, he dashed into the curry house to hear what we had to say. 

Earlier, I buy a 1st class single from Euston to Milton Keynes for some £25 some 30 euros to ensure I get a comfortable seat, I have forgotten that trains in UK are not only an utter rip off but furthermore I am forced to stand all the way as it is oversubscribed, I cannot tell you how much I hate some aspects of my home country, had I known it was standing room only I would have at least saved £10 on a second class stand as I think it must be called! I am tempted to engage Mr Bercow in a debate about this, but as he is the only speaker in living memory to be challenged in a General Election in his constituency I decide to hold my tongue.

Someone tells me that there is some moisture back in Valbonne, but they must be mistaken, perhaps someone’s sprinkler is on rather too high, at least its not wet today here as I near the end of a frankly underwhelming visit to the uk, but boy is it cold! I see on the tv that the skiing season in Scotland will continue into June….global warming? Bah humbug. Perhaps there is an increase in co2 but what about the effects of sun spots, or for that matter volcanoes, which once again threaten to disrupt travel, indeed I am nervously monitoring the news channels to see if I may be marooned in England.   I am counting down the hours to my return for lunch in the sun on Thursday.

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