Jewish man circus sized

Predictably, perhaps, I did not receive a response from on-line magazine Riviera Woman to my offer to write some misogynistic material for their publication.

Perhaps the implication that I may inadvertently have given in this column yesterday that women should be at home cooking, cleaning and looking after the children, leaving us chaps to do the business has something to do with it? I don’t know, it seems that some do not share or appreciate my sense of humour or more likely do not want to destroy their commercial success by accepting some material from a subversive, ie a man.

Today is a bank holiday in France, so there will be no strikes. They tend not to have strikes on bank holidays or half term over here, clearly principles which are strongly held must not interfere with leisure activities remembering those who fell in combat.

Indeed, as many of us know, the French love a good march and they also like a good strike, it being seen as a good social occasion, however they don’t need to strike if they manage to get their enjoyment from a good march without having to strike, So actually if you take that argument further, I think the government could eradicate all strikes if it made one day a week a National Holiday on condition that people march in protest at something. Maybe they should protest about women in business?

A holiday also highlights the Provence pastime of lunch. As I am determined to enjoy as many French customs as possible now that I live here, (although not marching or striking) today I will lunch at Les Pierre Rouge (meaning red stones) with Pierre Le Grand. Les Pierre Rouge is a restaurant in Valbonne famous for being the place where a notorious crime of passion, a triple shooting, took place about 20 years ago. In that context I may have been tempted to change the name, or perhaps it is an allusion towards the spiritually communist leanings of the local population?

Pierre le Grand a.k.a Peter Lynn is my favourite joke teller, and the tallest 70-year-old I have ever met. His offer of high fives to anyone under five foot five (which includes his lovely and very much younger wife, Judy) which  is hysterical as he must be six feet six with great long arms almost as long. Being jewish, he is very circumspect (I know I have used that joke before, but I like it) and given his height, in olden times he may have been able to secure gainful employment in a circus, as one also might truly describe him as circus sized….

That nice lady decorators personal drinks table laid as as usual at the Riviera Business Club event recently

The wheels of industry turned a little more quickly yesterday than recently as I have been energised by the Rachel Elnaugh story, that, and the pounds recent recovery against the euro or throwing off the man flu, or merely the requirement to earn some more cash has driven me into yet further pastures new, however the faster the wheels go round the more likely they are to fall off!

Chris France

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