Is the coke a patholic?

December 26, 2010

tags: Cafe Des Arcades, Cote D Azur, Currencies Direct, Food & wine, Sunny France, The Ashes 2010

I knew it was all starting to unravel on Christmas eve when that nice lady decorator, when asked of we should order another bottle of wine said “is the coke a patholic?”. The day was marked by the fact that I had to pay 3 bills, one for lunch, one for post lunch drinks, and one for very much post lunch drinks, all at the same restaurant the Cafe Des Arcades. I thought this merited special mention, if only for my tenacity for bill paying.

As it was the season of goodwill, personal insults were being bandied about with gay abandon. I believe at one stage Iuean, Melissa Graves gardener, was described as a metro sexual – a straight guy who dresses well but in a trendy hidden sexual way-, and later Melissa, when talking about her husband Nigels’ nose described it as “blocking out the sun”. A dozen or so revellers ensured lunch did not finish until we were chucked out at around 7 30pm.

Having reviewed my notes of the event, and been frankly appalled at the evidence of bad behavior, I have decided to draw a quiet line under events and in the spirit of Christmas, forgive those that sinned and scrap my notes.

As it is Christmas, I have decided to select my favorite picture from the year today, and the lucky winner is Bill Colegrave for this pose at Paul Thornton Allans 60th birthday celebrations in the summer;

: Picture of the year, Bill Colegrave “relaxing” at a summer

And so, its now all over, or at least it should be, but apparently Christmas is scheduled to run for a further eleven days, so they we can encompass all those lords a leaping , partridges and french hens and the like. Like many I have sat in front of the TV getting ever grumpier about the repeats and rubbish like celebrity Christmas Dancing etc but it has all been very inspiring for my Happy Mondays Mr Angry angloinfo blog.

I have been tucking into a rather nice Pomerol 2003 whilst that nice lady decorator has been paying her respects to a Montrachet and I am not certain I have the stamina to stay up all night watching cricket. Earlier in the day the traditional opening of presents was enlivened by the dogs opening their presents. That nice lady decorator would not let me supply the present for Banjo as for some reason she seemed to think I may not have very festive intentions for the catastrophic cocker spaniel. I don’t have any idea how her suspicions were aroused as I do not recall ever suggesting that I would in any harm her precious canine cock up, but I had no intention of doing anything but helping him with any worming issues. I had thought that he might thank me for a years supply of worming tablets all stuffed into a nice bone but perhaps the years supply of laxative was slightly too concentrated.

Chris France

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