Miss England plays golf with France

A herculean struggle at Opio Valbonne Golf Course eventually threw up the correct winner of the REGS singles knock out competition (I mean of course my good self) who marched through to the last 16 in triumphant fashion. Despite a 9 shot disadvantage, England represented by France (?) was able to dismiss the Scottish challenge of Bryce Johnson (not Robertson as previously thought)  and eventually crush it in Ryder cup style. The result was never in doubt despite the mad celt having a putt to halve it at the 18th. The reason? It had taken me 17 holes to persuade him to have a bet.  Once he had swallowed the bait, he was doomed.  I am a past master of gamesmanship (as opposed to sportsmanship which is quite a different thing)  and thus, using all my powers, which had to be fully employed, after all, when can you remember a Scotsman buying a round?  I rest my case – he finally succumbed to the offer of a wager when he was back level at the 18th, and as a result of this inevitable defeat bought all the beers!

I am sent a picture today by The Riviera Times of myself and my playing partners in the recent Riviera Times Golf Cup last Saturday.  I show it because I had not realised that one of my opponents, Pauline Bull, was actually a former Miss England, and I thought it was interesting that Miss England was playing with Mr France, if you get my meaning…

From left to right, myself, Umar, The former Miss England, Pauline Bull and Chistiansen, picture courtesy of The Riviera Times

Last night to drinks at the magnificent Bastide St Matthieu, close to Grasse, a fantastic boutique hotel and the home of  Bill and Soraya Colegrave. It is a magnificent house in a wonderful setting and I can quite understand their success with wedding receptions and the like. The wingco kept things going into the early hours by taking over the piano and regaling the guests with songs from the sixties, but sadly none in which I have a financial interest!

His repertoire was somewhat overshadowed however, by a mysterious drum machine which was a feature of this particular modern piano, until he managed to disengage the infernal thing.  Until he did so, one could perhaps describe his playing as meandering to a different drummer.

I am fully expecting a quiet day today.  That nice lady decorator was up at 7 this morning busying herself with preparations to buy sell loads of stuff at todays Mougins School Car Boot Sale, thus there is the blissful prospect of a whole day without nagging, and with luck the wingco will remember his late night invitation to his to watch some cricket, to get me in the mood for my forthcoming trip to Australia for the first Ashes Test.

Autumn is approaching and bad weather is forecast for the weekend, but perhaps that will finally end the mosquito season which has been worse this year than ever before, seemingly according to the locals because of our wet winter this year which brought al the snow. I had one in the bedroom last night which I named Beelzebug, because it got into the bedroom at 3am and would not be cast out.

Chris France

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