Man flu worse than childbirth – official

November 6, 2010

tags: angloinfo, Cafe Des Arcades, Cote D Azur, Currencies Direct, Food & wine, fr2day, La Kavanou, Living In France, Moving To France, Valbonne

Church at Cafe Latin was very poorly attended yesterday, I am sure that had our vicar the Reverend Humphries turned up, there may have been a gathering of some sorts, but alas he was also absent so now I have no idea what I should be wearing this week, except, inevitably it will be purple.

Last night to La Kavanou, the new wine bar of choice for that nice lady decorator, note that the choice part of this sentence has nothing to do with me. It may very well be that I might choose to go there if I understood the concept of the words “choice” and “my” in the same phrase.

Despite the man flu that has literally plagued me all week, that nice lady decorator is determined to keep an appointment. It is bristling with people, and that does not mean all the people had moustaches, well not all the women anyway, and where we are to meet Melissa and Nigel Graves and their gardener Iueun whom they are tending for the evening.

Melissa is Irish, Nigel is Irish by penetration, and Iueun could only be Welsh with such a silly name. So I think you will quickly understand that it was not a high brow evening. Melissa for instance claims that very time she bends her elbow her mouth opens! All I can say is that her elbow must be very sore this morning, or perhaps it is permanently bent?

The Irishness started at the wine bar. “What a lovely wine bar” she said, “I will have a vodka and coke”. But its a wine bar, selling, well, wine, so they don’t have vodka. Ok she says “I’ll have a gin and tonic”. Suffice to say that after a couple of drinks, under pressure from Melissa who has given up drinking wine we adjourned to the Cafe Des Arcades where they do sell vodka, and where Melissa promptly ordered some wine.

I cannot recall what poor Nigel’s voice sounds like, her elbow was bending so much. He is however delighted for me that I am going to Australia for the First Test, at least I think that is what he meant when he said “bastard”. Their faithful old retainer Iueun, tells me that there is an official EEC map that has air brushed Wales out of existence and seems hurt when I suggest it’s the only useful thing they have ever done.

I fear this morning however that I have overdone it and that a man flu relapse is underway, which if one continues with my analogy about man flu being as distressing as child birth, would be like having twins, two days apart.

My picture today is of me. I was asked for a photo for my up coming Angloinfo blog to be called Happy Mondays, in which I have been encouraged to be grumpy. They wanted grumpy and I have found it surprisingly easy to write, and as you see, very easy to look the part.

Glass half empty, I think

Finally today, one of my public service announcements; Frances Thompson is starting her fab supper club again with Indian, Vietnamese and Thai offerings coming up. For details go to supperclub06.com

Chris France

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