Day lost in champagne test?

December 3, 2010

tags: Australia, Bastide St Matthieu, Cote D Azur, Currencies Direct, didgeridoo, Living In France, Moving To France, The Ashes 2010

Twenty seven degrees when I left Brisbane, thirty-three degrees when I left Singapore, minus two degrees and snowing as I arrived at Heathrow. I thought I might get away with shorts and thongs, but I was wrong. Thongs of course are Australian slang for sandals, shame on the large female contingent of readers, I know what you were thinking, Chris France wearing a thong? hmmmm…Yes, I managed to get home to Nice via Heathrow despite the snow and cancellations, even as I write this, at the Christmas Fair at Bastide St Mathieu, once again working tirelessly to save people money on their foreign exchange transfers, I hear that Gatwick Airport is still closed.

29 hours of flights and airports, then straight from the airport to the fair, where I felt it was my duty to support that nice lady decorator in her running of the champagne bar. I abhor the idea of selling any merchandise that I have not tested thoroughly, So it was my duty, you understand, to ensure that the champagne on sale met the minimum standards that I would expect, and I am happy to report that quantity control was surpassed. No Pete, that was a deliberate typo. I think I was on a champagne diet and I have lost a day already.

I have found some business cards printed advertising the services of That Nice Lady Decorator. They were on the bar. This means that she has tacitly approved the name I have given her, and I am not sure how to react. If she actually likes the description then I am somewhat deflated, it’s no fun if she actually likes or approves of her title, it takes away the sense of dangerous satisfaction I enjoy, I shall have to think of something a little more pointed or controversial.

My picture today is from Australia and shows a giant didgeridoo, the aboriginal music instrument brought to our attention by redoubtable Australian Rolf Harris. I was lucky enough to work with Rolf in 1996 when we persuaded him to ~~destroy~~ record “Bohemia Rhapsody” for my record company, complete with didgeridoo and wobble board, another Australian er..”musical instrument”. He was a star then and is a star now.

Can you see what it is yet?

I meet Bill Colegrave, the owner of the Bastide St Mathieu, then venue for the well attended fair, whose book Halfway House To Paradise I read on my trip. He is mortified that I have discovered a split infinitive in the text. Bill, who went to a proper school and a top university and ps a renowned intellect and classic scholar is already smarting from receiving a chess lesson recently from a former council house boy.

Also in attendance supporting the breadwinner in his household is Neil “I’m free” Humphreys supporting his lovely wife who is exhibiting her art. She tells me that she has five times sold pictures she has pained of Cafe Latin, the venue for church this morning, perhaps the reason why they like the place so much?

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