Girls lunch – no casualties reported so far

The girls lunch passed off peacefully, at least, as far as I know there was no need for anyone to be bailed out, no young waiters were scared out of their wits, or quit, or both, and I have no reports so far of projectile vomit so far, so it seems it was a fairly quiet affair.

Actually, I witnessed some of it as Paul Warner and Wayne from FR2day were in the square lunching and were sufficiently able to make themselves heard on the phone above the female cacophony, to invite me down, so I accepted the invitation and met up for a quiet beer.

Today I had forgotten that I must play the next round of the REGS knockout competition against Bryce Robertson, who, as his name suggests is far from English. Thus Neil Humphreys whom I was looking forward to seeing at Cafe Latin this morning, will be spared more humiliation for another week, so Neil, if you read this before “church” at Cafe Latin this morning, you can wear what you like, I will not be there to humiliate you. Although I do have some spies with camera phones, so don’t relax too much.

Back to Bryce. For a Scotsman he is quite civilised, which must be the result of living amongst English people for most of his life, however I am sure that beneath that thin veneer of civilisation there is something of Brave Heart Celtic Pict just beneath the surface. Dare I beat him? I will let you know tomorrow.

My picture today is of James Lesinski our tame dealer from Currencies Direct, taken at the seminar at St Endreol earlier this week. You may notice that hair, which is always unkempt but when I took this picture, looks like he has some bubble gum lodged in it. I just wish he hadn’t tried to comb it with the gum still in there. He believes, wrongly as it turns out, that this annoying porcupine look is attractive to the ladies. It is not, but one of the waiters at St Endreol paid him a significant level of attention, but who knows, perhaps that is what he seeks?

James "bubble gum" Lesinski with that annoying hair.

An early night after a few beers as the sun went down, but an early night nowadays does not mean what it did when I was younger, when an early night was what you did before getting up and going to the pub. Age is a cruel taskmaster, taking as it does ones sleek form, ones hearing, ones lithe athleticism, ones interest in the bizarre and ones err ones memory….damn I forgot what I was going to say.

The weekend currently looks quiet. That nice lady decorator is doing the Mougins School Car Boot Sale on Saturday, when she will return home with 75% if what she wanted to sell and 25% more stuff which having bought this time, she will want to sell by the next time they stage a sale of this sort. It is a sort of ritual cleansing.  Clear out the garage of all the old stuff you have stored for years, then go to a car bot sale, sell a little of it and buy a whole lot more stuff you dont need to fill in those big gaps that have appeared in the garage.  It is a self fulfilling philosophy, a kind of circle of life.

Chris France

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