Celebrity Mastermind shock
Did you hear about the alcoholic fat Father Christmas transvestite look-alike? At he wanted to do was eat, drink and be Mary. There we go, should have got the “offended” numbers up pretty quickly today. I think I should have upset alcoholics, transvestite, Christians and the overweight all in one fell swoop.
At last the real weather has returned. I suspect god or Mr Darwin or whoever is in charge listened to my warning yesterday and decided that enough was enough. I think we have now had the annual rainfall for the cote d’Azur, so no more until the end of the year please, or there will be trouble.
Modesty normally forbids me often to mention my long and glittering career in the music industry, but it seems that one cannot suppress ones comparative fame forever, as apparently I was the subject of a question on Celebrity Mastermind with Terry Christian recently. This however has not been confirmed, nor has the suggestion that Terry got that particular question wrong.
The Breiget a tributary of the Brague River in the Valmasque forest
My picture today is taken from my walk yesterday morning, then
last night into Valbonne, heartened by the recovery of the pound against the euro, to The Queens Legs and thereafter the Valbonnaise which is great fun if still a little too brightly lit for the older woman. This of course in no way can apply to that nice lady decorator who by her own reckoning is now in her mid thirties, whereas I find my own wizened features seem somehow to come alive in such light.
A happy throng included Tim Bucktwo, Lady Jill, George Benson look-alike Dr Henry Brew. I want a name like that, Brew. Maybe Chris Vine would be more apt?
The talk is of going skiing today at Isola 2000 but for me insufficient sunshine is guaranteed so they will not be accompanied by me. Instead I shall collect my copy of the Sunday Times and revel in the after match analyses of the Ashes Test series and sit in the sunshine (you have been warned, god) in Valbonne Square over a coffee.
MIDEM, the international music festival which is staged each January in Cannes is approaching, and obviously my presence is required. Unfortunately this involves me in a great deal of toil in the run up, something that I am not used to any more, indeed I may have to put in several 5 hour days in the coming weeks, particularly as it looks like it will be sunny in the mountains on Tuesday so skiing for the day will eat into my valuable work time.
Let me leave you today with a story with a warning as befits the Sabbath. A friend of mine hired a lady from Eastern Europe to help with his cleaning but it took her 5 hours to hoover the house, apparently she was a Slovak.
Chris France
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“Let me leave you today with a story with a warning as befits the Sabbath. A friend of mine hired a lady from Eastern Europe to help with his cleaning but it took her 5 hours to hoover the house, apparently she was a Slovak.”
He should have checked her out before he employed her, did he expect her to go russian around? I’d say next time get one from Warsaw, at least she’d be able to polish properly.
Then he told me he’d had a string of disasters with cleaners. He’d had one from Turkey who did nothing but gobble gobble gobble, he was quite happy with that until the American neighbours invited her over for Thanksgiving and she was never seen again. The one from Greece left smears all over the place, the one from Budapest ate him out of house and home as she was always hungry, and when he tried to send the one from Bucharest home she said : “I’d rather Romania with you”
Then he got one from South America but she was always chilly, one from China but she was too delicate, and kept peeking through the keyhole, and now he’s got one from Brazil but he’s been warned to keep her away from the wax. Can’t win, can you?
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All of the above reminds me of the local quiz-master who pressed on regardless of dwindling attendance figures !
To this end, it is worth reminding the more erudite of your readers that the next Quiz Night at Brittains restaurant is Friday, January 14th at 7.00pm.
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