Writers style cramped

August 3, 2010

tags: Cote D Azur, Currencies Direct, Ex Pats Golf, Food & wine, fr2day, Golf in Valbonne, Living In France, Moving To France, Valbonne

Inspiration is such a fickle animal. However, I know that mentioning animals in my first sentence will grab the attention of Steve Weston at least and probably lead to inspiration. To be faced with a blank screen and a blank mind with a goal of 600 words is a writer’s nightmare.

Yes, a writer. I have now been paid for the first time for writing, so I lay claim to being a writer. A short 5 km walk from Biot to Antibes this morning to collect said payment became ill-advised as the temperature soared above 32 degrees at 10.30, so by the time I arrived at the Bluewater, the commissioners of my writing, it is fair to say that I did not look my best. I needed a shower but looked as though I had just had one fully clothed.

Lunch was taken at the new Beer and Curry restaurant in Antibes, which given the name of the place was more upmarket than I expected. Satay sticks were very good in a homemade peanut sauce, and a nice array of international beers, which of course required some rigorous testing.

Rather worryingly this morning, that nice lady decorator asked what I was writing about in this blog, and did I ever mention her. When I said it was often about my friends like the Wing Commander, she asked me if I was always kind about them. Now I think regular readers don’t want to hear platitudes about people you don’t know, what I think they want is salacious gossip, character assassination, and the be-smirching of good names by association with places, people and events. Thus it was a difficult question to answer truthfully. So I considered doing the decent thing and lie. But then I considered that perhaps I am doing a decent thing, confronting people in, I hope, an amusing way about their shortcomings (actually the spellcheck picked up the misspelling of shortcomings as “shirtcomings” which in the case of Mr Weston and Mr Brown may be more apt. (See yesterdays blog and earlier). But then I thought, ….what bull shit, so I lied.

Today I have important business in Valbonne. Work never ceases for us business types or writers, I even have to do work on my holidays, however if you work at the intensity that I do, then that can all be taken care of before lunch – as long as you are prepared to start as early as 11am. I will then begin to prepare for golf with Mark Gurdon who will be in Cannes and is looking to me for his usual golf lesson this week some time. My picture today shows him in a rather difficult stance at The Badger at Weston Turville Golf Club recently on one of the wetter days we experienced in England.

Mark Gurdon up the hill and down and out at Chiltern Forest Golf Club

Today we are going to decide at which beach we should eat lunch. Life is that tough. My preference would be Le Petit Plage at Juan Les Pins, whilst that nice lady decorator favours Rado Plage at Cannes, so we may have to agree to disagree and do what she wants.

Chris France

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