New years resolution; Sarkozy on a diet?

I am writing this “whilst sitting on my arse” as it was described by that nice lady decorator, who I suppose is understandably is little miffed not to have her love god of a husband join her in her bed last night, or indeed the night before due to the fantastic England performance in the Fourth Ashes Cricket Test in Melbourne.

For some reason, it appears to be my fault that we have Sky HD and they have chosen to cover this match. It is imperative that in these circumstances as history is being made and I need to witness it as it happens, after all, we can all remember where we were on 9/11. That is how important is the Ashes series against Australia to an English man suffering from 30 years of Australian cricketing domination and humiliation is to me.

Sarkozy out for a walk in northern France

I am continuing my festive theme today of choosing my favorite photos from the year. Today I am featuring a photo I took in northern France when lost looking for a hotel on the way back to England. I suggested in the blog that day that the owner told me that the pigs name was Sarkozy, but I may have mis-heard the owner as I am not good at french dialects.

So the new year is approaching and the time is coming to consider new years resolutions. I had fleetingly considered that I should try to be a bit nicer to Banjo, the  overbearing and obese cocker spaniel weighing in at over 35 kilos, mainly because he eats everything he can see or smell, including most recently some very expensive drugs. I say fleetingly but regular readers might think that I am being economical with the truth, that I never even considered it, but they are wrong. The dog is so deranged he barks at lawn rakes, lawn mowers and if he ever showed up in the garden he would probably bark at the lawn ranger, but new years resolutions don’t have to be positive in intent. For instance, I could resolve to tie him to a tree with a muzzel fitted, and then play “Who let the dogs out” through some speakers. I know he would not have the sense to understand the joke but it would be give me pleasure.

One resolution that is easy to make and keep to will be to continue my missionary work of educating the ex patriot bank loving community that they can save money on foreign exchange transfers by opening an account with Currencies Direct.

Clearly I need to make some kind of resolution pertaining to that nice lady decorator. I am thinking about trying to get her some more decorating jobs, so please contact me if you need any decorating jobs doing, she good and cheap, and she clears up nicely after her, due mostly to the quality training I have invoked over the years.

Chris France

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