Aloe, Aloe

November 7, 2010

The man flu relapse was nasty. It was sufficient to scupper an invitation to a surprise 50th birthday party for Marion, wife of Greg, head honcho of Cote d’Azur Villa Rentals up in Bar sur Loup last night, so no bar and not in the Loup.

Instead that nice lady decorator and I stayed in and sipped lemsips and tried to re-gather all our strength for a luncheon at ours today. I have a particularly fine Bordeaux which I will be opening and am hoping I will be able to taste, then there are oysters, snails and a nice Sauternes for later on after the lamb and chicken (not a pub, that’s what we are eating).

It is two weeks today that I set off for Australia for the first Ashes Test, but Nigel Graves rather ungallantly asks if I have Sky TV, in which case why bother going? Why not watch it at home and save several thousands of pounds ? (to find out how much that is in euros click here for £ euro exchange rate). He has no idea of the tension and spectacle that awaits me, however part of that tension which I had not bargained for has already started in that I have yet to receive my ticket to the opening day’s play. If it all goes wrong I may still end up watching it on TV in my hotel room in Brisbane, but as Nigel helpfully pointed out, at least it won’t be in the middle of the night.

We have for several years been half heartedly trying to come up with a name for our house, as it has hitherto only had a number and yesterday I think that nice lady decorator came up with it. We have a large number of aloe’s growing in the garden, one of which is pictured today, so can you guess the name she has come up with? Listen carefully, I shall say zis only once, “Aloe Aloe”.

Aloe Aloe, what have we here then? despite some Resistance, we may have a new house name

Some of you will know that I moonlight as a Regional Controller for Currencies Direct, a very worthy organisation that will save you loads of money on any foreign exchange deal. They are very fast as transferring funds, but I have found a quicker way of transferring these funds, its called marriage.

The Riviera Business Club event with former dragon Rachel Elnaugh in Sophia Antipolis is close to being sold out, click here for details. I believe it will be an interesting event, and will not drag on (geddit?) for too long. Look, before you start complaining its Sunday morning, I am 50 words short of finishing today’s blog, which has been a bit of a struggle from my death bed and it seemed funny to me, until I read it back (I can hear Peter Lynn incredulous “he reads it back?” from 4 miles away). Quantity over quality always, and only five more words needed, that’s it done for another day!

Chris France

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