Gruff northener makes fashion statement

September 13, 2010

tags: Blue water Yachting, Cote D Azur, Cote D'Azur Villa Rentals, Currencies Direct, Golf in Valbonne, Living In France, Moving To France, St Donat Golf Course, Sunny France

St Donat golf course sat as pretty as a picture at 9am yesterday, ready to host the Landlubbers weekly gathering. I was in a high state of anticipation because it is normally such a verdant source of material for this column. However, despite my best efforts to provoke a reaction, very little of true gossip, innuendo or deliberate fabrication was forthcoming.

I attempted to get conversation going by reminding Iueun (Yes I think, I know, stupid name but he’s Welsh and with a brooding countenance, and perhaps even a sinister and unspoken love of daffodils lurking beneath that otherwise urbane exterior) about some events last evening. Notable during after dinner discussions was the fact that our token Welshman apparently knows where one can buy plastic blow up sheep.

Regular readers will know that information of that type must be noted immediately by the writer of this column in order to impart to any sheep loving chaps that I come across.

Regular followers will also know that one of the Landlubbers golfers has form in this area. Thus I threw this piece of information into the post golf conversation, but Mr Weston (yes it he to whom I was referring) refused to react. I think he has finally realised that he often helps this column to write himself.

I admit to several other attempt to steer (does that have any sheep connotations?) The conversation towards the subject so beloved of my golf playing pal, with references to getting fleeced, and the like, but he would not be drawn, how very disappointing! Instead I cast my eyes a little wider for some entertainment and found gruff northerner Dave Goddard wearing these trousers.

Dave Goddard, pleased with his new trousers, but why are his hands hidden behind his back?

What can one say, designed by a Yorkshireman, worn by a Yorkshireman, the only question to ask is why? I am sure that Dave believes rather naively that they are the height of fashion , but then so did people wearing Oxford Bags, flairs and nine-inch heels. In the 19th century they believed leeches were good for your health, you get my drift? Anyway, he seemed content in his own little northern world, dreaming of tripe sandwiches or sheep, and who am I to judge him?

Well actually I do judge him. I am someone who writes a column taking the piss out of my mates and given one of them was wearing these trousers he should be ready for everything thrown at him. I did not notice at the time, but his hands are placed firmly behind his back, perhaps in some kind of guilty defensive gesture, but if you look carefully, it appears as if he has had a little accident and is trying to cover it up. Luckily I do not believe he can read so I think I am safe from any reaction.
Today I am supposed to be popping down to the Cannes Boat Show, but may have to plead pressure of work. What, with my column in the Riviera Times to write and my work to ensure that both Blue Water Yachting and Cote D’Azur Villa Rentals remain top of the google rankings, not to mention my work to ensure all I come into contact with understand the savings they can make with Currencies Direct, I am exhausted by 11am and need lunch and a siesta to recover.

Chris France

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