Banjo to get arse kicked?

As the plastic surgeon said, this puts a whole new face on it. My grumpy old git blog called ironically Happy Mondays for angloinfo seems to be getting loads of hits, I have had top spent lot of today moderating comments from people laughing at it. Have they no shame? Actually I have thoroughly enjoyed being grumpy, and it seems it comes naturally, especially on a Monday.  I thought I had overdone it, but now I can get really grumpy for next weeks column!

My picture today is of our faithful retainer Max showing his understanding about my forthcoming trip to Australia to see the cricket by chewing up my cricket ball.

Max, doing a bit of ball tampering

Luckily the other dog (squatting  quite literally in our household) despite my express instructions that he was not welcome) is the an anally challenged 35 kilo cocker spaniel(!) mutant Banjo, is out of shot (out being shot if I had my way).  Banjo has taken to chewing bits of wood.  First he selects a log from the top of the wood pile, then climbs up destroying the carefully stacked wood, mostly taken from the wing commanders store before he realised the value or cost of delivery of firewood.  Then he takes it off to the only piece of lawn he has not shat on, (which means nowhere near my hammock) and chews it into little pieces, not that hammock, the wood. Note,  he doesn’t eat, merely chews it to make as much mess as possible and make me grumpy.  There is a saying about not being able to hit a cows arse with a banjo, but I would sure like to try.

And so to the dragon’s den, well the Skeema school in Sophia, scene of last nights presentation by Rachel Elnaugh, former dragons den presenter for the Riviera Business Club. This sold event was a joint effort with a very worthy group called the European Women’s network. Some may think some of these ladies might not have been better employed at home with their knitting, but of course I do not. Rachel was very honest about her rise and fall in building Red Letter Day from nothing into an £18million turnover company in 7 years, before going bust 4 years later, a fascinating story, although how she managed to give birth to 5 boys during this process raises a slightly uneasy thought process for a good male chauvinist like myself. Please feel free to enter any comment you like.  I am sure that the editor of the on line Riviera Woman whom I met last night, may regret inviting me to write something for her website!

Today, the wheels of Valbonne commerce will continue to turn, I shall be collecting payment from Greg at Cote d’Azur villas assuming he does not see me coming first, then meetings with the great and good, and also some of my sleepy Currencies Direct affiliates, so sleepy that they fail to read this column and have no idea I what I say about them.  I cannot mention names but Riviera Realty and John Taylor Real Estate should be concerned. That means if any of them wake up before I see them this morning, I may have some apologising to do.

Chris France

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