Headstands – not always a good idea
The career and lifestyle exhibition has finished. Many positive things to came out of it, not least the number of stand holders, over 60, but errors were made and people will be blamed, had it been free to get in, it would have been an excellent event, and will be much better next time.
Afterwards to a late lunch at Cafe Des Arcades to enjoy the sunshine in the quintessentially and beautiful Valbonne square. Amongst the luminaries enjoying the surroundings is Andrew Neil, former editor of The Sunday Times and well know political TV pundit sporting much more hair than I remember. Whilst he was there, I received a call from someone who was interested in our chinchilla, which my son has outgrown, and for some strange reason I make a connection between chinchilla fur and Mr Neil’s head, but cannot quite put my finger on why….Mr Hindley retires hurt however, hurt perhaps by his harsh but fair treatment in this blog yesterday. His responsibilities are largely in property sales and it has apparently been a poor year so far, in fact one wag suggested that selling a bacon sandwich at the red radish cafe was the first thing he’s sold all year! Before I leave I see Mike Hardakre (with a K! as he rather tetchily pointed out) of Anglo Info who tells me that his son once watched him play guitar in a pub and told his dad afterwards that he wanted to do that when he grew up, but his dad told him can’t have it both ways! My picture today shows him with Wayne Brown from Fr2day. May I be the first to spread unfounded rumours of a possible merger?
Wayne Brown of FR2day and Mike Hardaker from Anglo info in gay relationship shocker? Only joking! but the merger rumour starts here
Celebrations gradually ran out of control after leaving the Cafe Des Arcades at around 6pm. A happy throng with a considerable intake of rose on board ended up chez moi in the pav as it is known (our outside Thai pavilion) and the last stragglers departed after midnight. A little earlier, Lucy from red radish, in extra-large celebratory mood who is heard to say “When I start I just can stop, I like to do things that are naughty” had indulged us with her usual party trick of doing head-stands, so the panic phone call at 6am this morning should not have been a surprise. When doing head-stands one should be aware that pockets tend to empty themselves, so it is not a good idea to have the entire weekend takings from the red radish cafe at the exhibition in your pocket at the time. Apparently she and Wayne had driven back over to Valbonne and been searching our garden from first light for any sign of it and tearful phone calls ensued, until……she remembered that she did what the current Mrs France does when drunk, hide it in a safe place then wake up and can’t remember where that safe place is or indeed that you hid it at all! Anyway it all ended well as the rose induced haze cleared and her memory of where she had stashed it returned. I am sure Wayne will be delighted!
Amongst the impromptu party gathering are Paul & Claire Warner who hear from her parents who have set off from Wokingham in Surrey to drive to Biot near Antibes . They had planned to stop half way but called to say and were safely booked into a hotel in Ashford..
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Much as I’d love to take credit for the tale you spin it was just one of those “I wish I’d said that” moments.
It happened during a post-gig rehydration session in the Old Town of Nice in about 1993, where I was sitting with a couple of other musos who’d also just finished their evening’s work including one Johnny Reptile, a pretty useful singer/guitarist kicking around the scene at the time. This kid – he must have been 17 or so – came up to the table and said, “When I grow up I want to be a musician!” to which the Reptile, without even looking up from his beer, sighed: “Son, you can’t have it both ways.”
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