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Hammock in wifi breakthrough

September 15, 2010

I have made a breakthrough which will enable even me to increase my efficiency and writing proficiency. I have discovered that the wifi signal reaches my hammock! 

It took a good deal of exploration to make this discovery, carrying the laptop all around the garden to test whether or not the wireless would function. In effect this knowledge adds another ante-room to my office suite (otherwise know as the kennel for more than one reason). Along with the pav, I now have an additional area in which lovingly to create your daily ration of rubbish carefully created and crafted anecdotes and observations about the idle rich of Valbonne. I know you will be pleased for me, especially my readers in the UK, who I suspect may be worried about whether or not I am getting enough sunshine. For those people alone, I show the picture below. 

New office ante-room. All I need now is a gone to lunch sign

 

I have always found the creative process benefits from being comfortable.  This discovery will almost certainly aid and improve (if that is indeed possible) my prose for your edification and delight. 

Yesterday I piloted Bluebell the camper around the area, testing it to ensure the 41-year-old girl is up for a trip to the mountain to Castellane should we decide to go at the weekend. I happened past Savills in Plascassier, who have wisely affiliated to Currencies Direct and dropped in. Former Stiff Records staff member and rock n roll chick Fiona, who is as beautiful as she is scary, and who runs the office with a rod of iron, possesses that same steely look that the nice lady decorator exudes. A camper van fan, she cast her laser beam blue eyes at Bluebell and I thought I saw them soften a little but I was probably mistaken. There can of course be no dilution of the formidable presence that is required to be able to argue loudly in French with the French and actually relish it! 

Today I must continue my writing for Cote d’Azur villa rentals which is thankless task , thankless that is until payday which sadly is still some weeks away. I am glad that I have some serious function to occupy me as I seem to fail at every household task I am given.  For instance, I have just been interrupted during the creative process in the hammock by that nice lady decorator to be told that apparently I have hung my sons T-shirts on the line wrongly.  Until just one minute ago, I was blissfully unaware that there was a right and a wrong way to peg out scabby hole ridden T-shirts, however I now bask in the warmth of this new knowledge, even if it was imparted to me with a disdainful mocking air. 

The wingco did not respond to me request that he put in a secretly planned impromptu appearance last evening, so I was forced to eschew alcohol for the second night this week, if you discount the single pint of Guinness the night before.  This seems to me to have proved the concept of being able to say no, so I shall be looking to celebrate with a nice 2005 Bordeaux this evening. 

Chris France       

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4 Comments leave one →
  1. Pinman's avatar
    Pinman permalink
    September 15, 2010 11:33 am

    “I shall be looking to celebrate with a nice 2005 Bordeaux this evening”.

    2005 ?? It’s not old enough to be out on its own !

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    • chrisfrance's avatar
      September 16, 2010 9:29 pm

      How did I know you would say that? 2005 is probably the best ever year for Bordeaux and as far as I am concerned is drinking well now!

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  2. MikeP's avatar
    MikeP permalink
    September 15, 2010 5:56 pm

    I can’t fully agree with all of your unjustified and unfair jibes about the North of England, as some of the nicest people I know come from there, and my late father was a Northerner, although my mother, who was a Southerner, claims that she had to teach him how to eat with a knife and fork. I suspect that this may have been because her cooking was so awful that he would rather not have eaten it at all.

    What is true though about the North, and I have to place this in context by saying that I’m currently in Sunderland, the origin of the Fat Slags (Viz Magazine in case nobody knows what I’m talking about) is the following :

    Most of the women are obese.
    The more obese they are the more naked and tattooed flesh they show and the fewer teeth they have.
    The colder the weather gets, and it is cold and rainy today, the more their clothes seem to shrink.
    Every second shop is either a Pound shop or a Pie shop. They do a roaring trade.
    The only people I can understand are the immigrants.

    On other matters, I hear that George Michael was offered an option of community service, but when told that this would include cleaning public toilets, his eyes lit up and the judge decided that this would be as much of a punishment as putting an alcoholic in charge of a distillery. He’s no longer Praying for Time though.

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