In flagrante in Harrods?

December 23, 2010

tags: Bastide St Matthieu, Cote D Azur, Currencies Direct, fr2day, Harrods, Les Pierres Rouges, Living In France, Moving To France, sancerre, Sunny France, Valbonne

Lunch at Pierre Rouges with Wayne from fr2day was followed by a return to our humble abode and that nice lady decorator insisting on watching Midsummer Murders on TV. That must be one of the most dangerous places in the world to live, there has been a murder every week for the last five years at least. In a population of several hundred this represents a mortality rate on a par with Auschwitz.

That nice lady decorator gets rather miffed when she thinks I have nodded off on the sofa after a large lunch, but what she fails to realise is that my work with Currencies Direct requires considerable planning and forethought. This is best undertaken in quiet undisturbed surroundings, and when Midsummer Murders is on the TV there is not much peace due to the high number of murders. Therefore I have had to develop a technique for deep strategic thought whilst blocking out all extraneous influences such as noise. She has begun to mistake this deep thought process (reminds me of a film in the 1970’s with Emmanuel something or other called Deep Thought?), but I digress, she has had the temerity to accuse me of sleeping. Because I am so adept at excluding outside noise and distractions from this thought process, she has mistaken this deeply intellectual yoga like state as slumber, and despite my best efforts I have been hitherto unable to convince her of the true nature of my deep thought process.

I had just achieved this state yesterday afternoon, before that nice lady decorator felt compelled to end this near state of intellectual nirvana by insisting I open another bottle of Sancerre.

Having been ~~awoken~~ disturbed from this trance, I began to write todays missive whilst sitting on the sofa, being exposed to Midsummer Murders, only to find that nice lady decorator asleep, as my picture today would show if I was daring enough. But I freely admit to seeking a quiet life, and living itself attracts me more than being murdered Midsummer style, which would undoubtedly be a possibility if I published the offending photo.

So today’s picture is of an urn which may well have held my ashes if I had been daring enough to publish the picture I wanted.

Tea Urn? - this is for all you Morecombe and Wise fans

Last night to the book signing ceremony at Le Bastide St Mathieu for Bill Colegrave and his recent publication “Halfway to Heaven”. I meet Anthony Bay and we swap dustman stories (yes I was once a “refuse collection operative”) before he reveals that before his assent into the upper echelons of society his career included being sacked as a shop assistant at Harrods.

Apparently he was caught “in flagrante” in a store-room at lunchtime after inadvertently (he says) inhaling some smoke from a spliff for which he utterly denies any responsibility. The girl was reprimanded and he was sacked. He claims this was a throw back to the previous year when the in store Santa Clause at Harrods was caught similarly compromised, but they could not sack him as he was a member of Equity, the actors union, so they sacked the other party. Anthony claims that his co offender got off with a reprimand but he was sacked. Clearly he (or rather his,) was a non-union member?

Bill is in ebullient form and proves that he can write his own name by signing a number of his books, but once again came off worse in the late night chess match, lasting a mere 7 moves against a former council house boy who’s name must remain anonymous but for arguments sake we will call him…

Chris France

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