Currencies Direct delegate in mini baaaa shock

September 25, 2010

tags: Cote D Azur, Currencies Direct, Living In France, Moving To France, sheep lovers, The France Show, Wagamama

I thought I looked OK despite the fact that I felt lousy, but after an hour in the France Show at Olympia, I was instructed by Pippa the French Business Development Manager for Currencies Direct, to return to the hotel and sleep and to come back in the afternoon when hopefully I had recovered somewhat. I think she thought my demeanour was not doing the stand any favours.

Before leaving however, I heard that the odd guy in the shorts who the resident plasterer had befriended and whose picture I featured in yesterday column was later arrested. I felt the police should have been arresting a few others. Indeed, I would not have been surprised to have been bailing out that nice lady decorator from the cells herself this morning,

Two hours kip, a couple of large bloody mary’s and I was up and running again. My planned picture today however is from the big night before last with the Irish guy, featured in yesterdays column.

I think he is a little tired

This was taken before Janey from Friend In France used up most of her red lipstick decorating the poor mans face. Shame, I would have paid money for a photo of that!.

The absurdly named Wagamama was the subject of the attentions of the few delegates still capable of socialising last evening, sadly with senior management and therefore the expense accounts perhaps not open to us, more measured financial arrangements needed to be brought to bear.

In conversation, I mention that one of my golfing pals was unwise enough to reveal that he likes sheep, at which point fellow Currencies Direct delegate Alan Monks, without a trace of embarrassment, one might say without any element of sheepishness, reveals that he once had a pet sheep, Jessica, and confounded the revelation by going on to tell us how she featured in Lancashire Evening Post, and used to go to pubs with him. He also mentioned other activities that they undertook together such as walking and taking her in his car for a dip….I know, that has mind boggling connotations, so at this point I confess I did not want to hear any more.

Regular followers of this column will know how alarmed I became when golfing pal Steve Weston announced that he had a favourite sheep. Clearly sheep fetishism is less rare than I thought.

Much hilarity followed with all the sheep gags, and Archie the Scottish crooner singing “Hello Dolly”, but nearly all the jokes were rather too graphic or frankly disgusting to repeat here, whilst at the same time providing a great deal of entertainment.

Alan Monks "wearing" a relative of Jessica

Of the lines I can repeat, I liked the reference to baby sheep with Alan being asked if he had in his room a mini baaaa…..and his unfortunate reference to taking Jessica walking in Wellington boots (uncertainty reigned over which of them was wearing the Wellingtons) and one delegates Sheepskin jacket (picture below) will never be the same again.

He even drew a picture of her which I feature here.

A picture of Jessica. Note the heart and position of the word cheeky

The ploy of not telling our children we were not coming back last night appears to have failed. Either someone snitched and they discovered our subterfuge, or they are just brazen, but in a late night conversation, I could hear the unmistakable sounds of a gathering. I do not know where they get this trait from.

Chris France

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