Apple Pie stolen by evil cocker

December 5, 2010

tags: angloinfo, Cote D Azur, Currencies Direct, Living In France, Moving To France, The Ashes 2010, Valmasque

As I sit and watch the test match, I hear the great Shane Warne, the greatest bowler spin bowler the world has ever produced describing England as “all over Australia like a cheap suit”. At the matches there is a tradition of dressing up, and I for one experienced a bearded “lady” in the urinals at Brisbane hitching up “her” skirt and it got me thinking about the male and female genders. Take photocopiers for instance, they are clearly female, they take a long time to warm up, are useful for reproduction, but you have to push the right buttons to get the right result. Push the wrong buttons and things can go horribly wrong.

Frequently I have to search the web for references and to check out some details to ensure the accuracy of this column, and it seems to me that the web must also be female. It keeps getting hit on and is looked at every day, but tyres for instance must be male, they are often over inflated and go bald very easily. Talking of over inflated, I think I am likely to get more than over inflated, in fact I might get blown up when the powerful Riviera woman’s community get to read my piece for Rivera Woman, the on-line magazine entitled Man knows Best.

Now, toadstools, male or female?. The one I photographed recently in the Valmasque Forest which surrounds Valbonne. I reckon female, it looks interesting and dangerous and may leave a nasty taste in your mouth.

Poisonous? who knows, female? probably

Last night to dinner with friends and guests, who despite being estate agents, were very pleasant, I think I agreed to buy two houses. Of course it was part of the deal that they became affiliated to Currencies Direct to enable their customers to benefit from better exchange rates than those offered by their banks.

I had wondered about the weekly grumpy old git blog called Happy Mondays that I write for angloinfo and whether it was being widely read, but I have discovered that it has received over 2500 hits in the first month, which is apparently a very good start, so I get to be grumpy on Mondays for the foreseeable future.

This week I must get back into French time, but obviously not until after the current Ashes Test Match has finished, England are in the driving seat and win is expected in the next two days.

The evil cocker spaniel, Banjo that is barely tolerated by me and under constant protest in our household has excelled himself. One of my daughters friends came to our house on a motorbike with an apple pie that he had baked. He was here for no more than 30 seconds, but that was sufficient time for that mutt to steal it from his panier and gobble it down. He will pay for this misdemeanour, quietly, when that nice lady decorator is not looking. My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance but I told him “We’ll see about that”.

Chris France

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