L’Oreal advert not very circumspect

There is once again ice on my pool. This is not acceptable, I did not pay all that money to live in a winter paradise, just a paradise. I am happy for it to snow and be wintry half an hour away, so that I can enjoy skiing and winter experience in general, but had I wanted to have the full winter experience at my home, I would have bought somewhere in the Alps, and my wardrobe would not have consisted mainly of shorts and short-sleeved shirts. I want a refund please.

Yes, this is my pool covered in ice. If you cant see it get glasses

I take it all back about French Estate Agents. Contrary to what I have might have inadvertently implied yesterday, that all french estate agents do not have a commercial fibre in their beings, and believe service is something you go to church for, today I have met with the lovely Aurelia from EuroFrance immobiliere (estate agents) who is as charming and helpful as she is beautiful. Not only that but she fully understood and immediately grasped the benefit to her of being affiliated to Currencies Direct.

Once again I am writing this as I am camped out on my sofa watching England versus Australia in the 3rd Ashes Test in Perth. However, I have a complaint. Why can they not play under floodlights in the middle of their night so that I can watch in daylight hours? Sounds like to good theme to develop for my Angloinfo blog next Monday – Happy Mondays indeed.

Whilst on my long vigil in front of the screen one tends to get assaulted by the inevitable adverts that blight Sky TV and I have been particularly struck by one from L’Oreal. It starts with a male model type with a strap line that says “For Skin that is itchy, tough, hard or flaking” or something of that nature. The problem for me is the lack of space between the words, the most disastrous of which is the almost entire lack of a space between “for” and “skin”. Now, I am sure that it is a very worthy product, and I am fairly certain it should not be used for any purpose which could be implied by the placing of these two words together without any spacing, but it is also fair to say that I have been sufficiently distracted by the possibility that I have no idea what the product actually claims to do. One footnote to that, if this really is a product for itchy foreskin, I for one do not want to know about it!

Thatsnicemagazine confirm that they would like me to write a piece on The Ashes series as I have suggested. They believe it will attract more male viewers.  This I found slightly worrying as it suggests that they don’t have many men readers and thus a story about The Ashes might be misinterpreted by our female brethren as something about burials or death.  Whilst this in itself is not overly concerning, the fact that they have asked me to make the submission light-hearted and amusing may have catastrophic bad taste consequences, but then again, when has that ever worried me?

I am however worried about the impending delivery back to these shores of that nice lady decorator.  She has just spent the week Christmas shopping, and, as I have become aware today after several calls from American Express, she has clearly been battering the card into the deepest submission.  When the credit control people call to say “Do you know how much money has been spent on your account?” then you know you are in trouble.

Chris France

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