Salman Rushdie, an impossible read?

December 12, 2010

tags: Cote D Azur, Currencies Direct, Ex Pats Golf, Living In France, Moving To France, Sunny France, Valbonne

When you are trying to work out which way a particularly difficult putt is going to go on the golf course, it is known as a Salman Rushdie. In golfing parlance this means “an impossible read”. On the contrary, the lovely and spectacularly well endowed Maria who was playing with the REGS (and this not an unfortunate turn of phrase) yesterday is far from difficult to read. She was very much full of the Christmas spirit as shown in my picture today.
Having eventually decided against playing a round (of golf) in her sexy santa outfit in the grounds that it was too cold, she settled on wearing this festive headgear. Quite how in enhanced her round escapes me.

Maria with her festive "hat"

Unfortunately my sheep fancying pal Steve Weston was absent from the annual REGS golf gathering and lunch at Le Provencal yesterday, with one member who must remain nameless but for argument’s sake I shall call Dave Goddard said that he thought Steve’s long-suffering wife Nancy had taken him to be fitted for his Christmas present, a sheepskin coat. I wonder if it had a name?

Also present was Mick “German shooting trousers” Pedley wearing the garments that gave him his nickname. The war has been over for 55 years now, but Mick clearly still has a few scores to settle. I saw that he was drawn to play with a chap called Dirk and for a fleeting moment I thought that Mick might have been drawn to partner a German but luckily (?) Dirk turned out to be Belgian so the prospect of a shooting incident subsided, although if he also took to shooting Belgians in general, perhaps the world would be a better place?

Lunch was a convivial affair with captains of industry seated beside captains of well, yachts. The event revolves around what is known as a bottle competition. Everyone brings a bottle and the winners get first pick of the prizes. Many of the bottles are of something decent like champagne or whisky, some are not so good being contributed by folk from the likes of Yorkshire, like 3 euro bottles of plonk. The idea is that the winners get first choice and naturally take the best that is available. Naturally that is, unless you are a gruff northerner from Yorkshire. Winner yesterday, Dave Goddard revealed his true sense of taste and knowledge of the finer things in life, honed to perfection in his native Yorkshire, by choosing the 3 euro bottle of cider ahead of a Grand cru St Emilion and several decent bottles of champagne, ostensibly because he liked the picture on the bottle.

Last night to informal drinks to celebrate the very successful exhibition of paintings by local artist Helen Humphrey in Valbonne, who I hear complaining to husband Neil “I’m free” Humphrey of throbbing balls (of her feet) as she has had to stand up all day.

That nice lady decorator flies to England tomorrow to do some Christmas shopping so I am open to any offers of debauchery until Thursday evening.

Chris France

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