Hungary For Sheep?

August 30, 2010

tags: Cote D Azur, Currencies Direct, Ex Pats Golf, Living In France, Moving To France, Sunny France

It was once again Steve Weston that started it. Our resident sheep lover wanted to know why, whilst we have been looking after the Wolff’s house, I hadn’t made the connection between sheep and Wolff’s clothing. I guess in some distorted way perhaps he feels that he is being stalked by a wolff…actually, I don’t know where I am going with this.

We were having the customary beer at Paul Duffy’s expense, after him having three birdies in the first 5 holes and returning with 40 points. It did not take long for the sheep references to start. Steve started it, asking if I had made good on my promise to make a mask out of the sheep picture he so helpfully provided me with.

His disappointment as I answered in the negative was palpable. I asked where he had found the picture and he said it was on a Hungarian website. Now I am sorry, call me naïve, but what possible reason could anyone have for visiting such a site. What would you have to type into the search engine, “Hungary For Love”?, “Mutton dressed as Lamb”?, Best Hungary Sheep?

Steve apparently worked for the European commission before “retiring”. I wonder if, during his tenure, there was ever a sheep mountain? Or perhaps those two words, sheep and mountain could be used in a different order? I have heard of mountain sheep but I have never seen it done…..There is a joke here about test match special presenter and former English cricketer Jonathon Agnew, but as many of my readers are from Yorkshire, and therefore don’t understand french, I think it will be lost on them.

My picture today is a study of form and shape. Maria has both!

A study in concentration...from Dave Wilson just behind Maria

Last night, some Adrian and Jane Burgering, chaps we met in Valbonne Square popped round to show their kids the baby tortoises, all 12 of them, tortoises, not kids. We retired to the pav for a sundowner and then it all went horribly wrong. Once again someone has dumped dozens of bottles in my garden. I spend most of the evening talking to him and he tells fascinating stories of selling house in North West London to an Italian mayor from Cambria. There was apparently an amnesty in Italy last year from anyone to declare any monies not previously known of by their tax authorities. The levy was a straight 2.5% and over 8 billion euros were recovered by the exchequer as a result! Touching, as Adrian had never considered the possibility that some of the many cash sales he made to Italians last year may have been a result of this recently legally laundered cash. I suppose he thinks the Mafia is an Italian club where they teach arithmetic! I am sure that had it occurred to him, he would not have accepted the large commissions that were earned a result…..but then I am convinced that Steve Weston has never touched a sheep, so who is the more naive?

This afternoon nine holes of golf with three golfing no-hopers, Mark Gurdon, Paul Thonton Allan and the wingco, will produce the customary winnings amounting to 30 euros, if there is any justice.

Chris France

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