Temperance wagon wheels loosen

November 5, 2010

tags: angloinfo, Cote D'Azur Villa Rentals, Currencies Direct, Food & wine, fr2day, La Kavanou, Living In France, Moving To France, Valbonne

I take a recce into Valbonne in the warm sunshine on foot to Cafe Latin yesterday morning by way of preparation for “Church” tomorrow. I am doing everything I can to throw off this appalling affliction and the walk helps downgrade my man flu into mere extreme pneumonia, which given my constitution I should able to shake off in a couple of years.

I believe my immune system has been broken down because of the lack of strong drink, and now that realisation has taken hold I am certain that my time on the temperance wagon is coming to an end, the wheel are loosening as I write.

I pop into Cote d Azur villas to try to collect payment for all my writing (50 articles last month) but am distressed to find the curtains being drawn and lights switched off as I near. Once I had made it clear that I wasn’t leaving, I was welcomed in, with the explanation that the curtains were being drawn against the sun and the lights had coincidentally fused at that moment, and had I collected my cheque I would have believed it with all my heart.

The head honcho Greg is apparently still on holiday, at least that is what I am told, but I fail to see why he would leave his car in the car park, (and still warm) and his hat and coat on the coat stand, and a hot cup of coffee on his now unattended desk, but I am easily fooled. Actually that reminds me that Mark Gurdon once persuaded me that the word gullible was not in the English Dictionary.

More of my gullibility was on show yesterday when I was fooled into Peter Lynn’s spoof exchange rate blog, I was fooled because he even had a UK company registration number on the “press release”. I believe my mental faculties have been damaged due to the man flu.

Mike Hardacre (with a K) from Angloinfo has revealed that amongst his talents is a grasp of greek, the language that is, and greek websites have the suffix .gr He has registered a greek domain called www.jag.gr solely it appears so that he can have an email address which is mick@jag.gr. If ever there was a cry for help from a failed pop star, this must be it!

Wayne Brown founder of FR2day and Mike Hardacre (with a K) co-founder of Angloinfo looking like Mick Jaggar?

Mike Preston tells a story about wine tasting in Stellenbosche – which is clearly in Germany not South Africa as he implies. When asked if he wanted to spit or swallow, he is slightly disarmed (so to speak) until a pretty young girl in his group said “I always swallow”. This made me all the determined last evening to do some swallowing of my own.

And then it happened, at 6.30pm, when I was losing hope, Wayne Brown from FR2day called to discuss some new projects. Where shall we meet I asked? How about the La Kavanou, the new wine bar in Valbonne? he said, and so it came to pass.

Chris France

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