Channel Tunnel Shocker

June 29, 2010

tags: CFM Monaco, Chrisma estate Agents, Cote D Azur, Currencies Direct, Food & wine, Living In France, Moving To France, Port De La Rague, Sunny France, Valbonne

And so, a full day of work, completed in a few hours,which is quite a long day for me. To Port de la Rague to meet Christine at Chrisma Estate Agents in the beautiful setting of Port De La Rague. She is so keen to affiliate to Currencies Direct and of course feature in this vitally important publicity machine, and so enthusiastic, I break my own rule and allow her to sign the forms on the spot.

Then on to Monaco to meet with the oldest bank in Monaco, CFM, deals are done, decisions made, the wheels of commerce oiled again and then lunch! Life is especially full at the moment, but tonight I have no engagement and so I continue my new writing career over a nice Premier Cru St Emilion in the writers retreat otherwise know as the pav, but on the way in late afternoon sunshine I take this picture.

Artichoke in flower, one of the few plants undamaged by the marauding Banjo

We are disturbed by odd noises during a late evening digestive in the pav. It is the noise of a tree frog. I hate frogs, says the resident plasterer, but live and let live, I say, most of the french I meet are nice chaps!

I decide to invite friends to the international club event at Mougins on Thursday but am amazed when they tell me it is sold out. “Don’t you know who I am?” I say, and am bemused and hurt by the response which is “no”. They may well suffer the curse of Chris at some stage in the future.

I book the channel tunnel crossing for my trip back to drudgery, rain and depression, England, and am charged more for the 2 dogs alone than for the car and 2 adults together! I suggest that a bullet would be a cheaper option for the resident plasterers dog Banjo, but receive the familiar withering look.
Part of my depression about going back to the UK is,of course, that I am facing the prospect of spending 3 weeks in close proximity to Banjo, the most unpleasant dogs I have ever encountered. Banjo is an unprepossessing animal and is a thief, disobedient, vindictive, unreliable and 3 times the size a cocker spaniel should be. I think there is a bit of wolf in there somewhere. It is said that dogs take on the personas of their owners bu this is of course a complete fallacy, at least that’s my written opinion, after all, it is not out of the question that she may read this column one day, but if it were true then you will not be surprised to hear that the proper dog, Max, the good faithful old retainer, to whom I claim joint ownership, is obedient, reliable, supportive and loving.

Furthermore, I am disturbed by TV images of apparently sunny weather back in blighty. Such footage is clearly fake, but what worries me is if the authorities in England are going so far as to fabricate footage of good weather, how bad must it be in reality?

Lunch today will be taken at the rather unseemly named Jimmy’s Killer Prawns in Valbonne. Personally I would not venture there after a poor meal some time ago, but a tombola prize of a free meal won at the Career and Lifestyle Exhibition runs out tomorrow, so according to the in-house decorator it must be used.

I am a little suspicious about her insistence, I would happily let the “prize” lapse, particularly as Prawns are very high in cholesterol, and I have a recently diagnosed high cholesterol problem, but she is strangely determined. I wonder why?

Chris France

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