St Blaise ends in cigar fire

January 31, 2011

tags: Cote D Azur, Currencies Direct, Golf in Valbonne, Living In France, Valbonne

So we popped in to The festival in Valbonne. I met a huge West Indian cricket lover but nearly got a massive beating from him, and all because I said “golly, your tall”.

The festival St Blaise in Valbonne yesterday was a triumph over the weather, which whilst good for the skiers some 20 miles away was less conducive to sitting outside. The snow line is down to about 400 metres with the fresh snow on the hills visible from my garden as I hope my picture will reveal.

The snowy wastes of the Cote d'Azur

During the procession I spotted a man who may replace Mr Humphreys (I have not seen him for some time, I do hope he is free) as my style guru.

I think the daring use of pink and, well, every other colour you can think of in a cardigan like this is inspiring. I have no idea what it is inspiring other than avarice no doubt when Mr H sees this.

Dig that moustache too!

Having to get into the square by midday to secure a table, it was amongst the longer lunches I have been to, and the bill (of over 300 Euros, around £260 at todays worsening exchange rates) reflected not only the time elapsed but the quantity of sustenance consumed between 8 of us. The rare appearance of Mr John O Sullivan at lunch, husband of the well endowed and beautiful Jude, our token Irish man for the day, began the inevitable assault on my travelling cigar humidor. I say inevitable as some people will recall that he has history in this respect, having consistently over the past year denuded my cigar mountain by setting fire to them as this picture shows.

Yet another of cigars consumes by fire, or rather by John O Sullivan

His ability to smoke my stock is matched by his ability never to buy any, or at least never reveal that he has bought any in my presence.

The next REGS golf event takes place next Saturday 7th February at the lovely St Donat golf course, where weather permitting I shall be unsheathing my clubs from my bag for the first time this year. That sounded vaguely exciting when I first wrote it, but the swiftly reached the conclusion that given my swing, there could be not a jot or scintilla of sexual suggestion involved.

There is an old expression “burning the candle at both ends” in other words to overdo the social whirl and which I think can fairly be applied to my lifestyle. Actually I feel like I have cut the candle into tiny sections and lit all of them at both ends since before Xmas, so the prospect now of a reasonably quiet week is very alluring, I wonder if it will come to pass?

Things look a bit tricky in Egypt at the moment, the muslim world is in a process of change. I have an Australian friend who fostered a muslim a few years back and got away with a fine. You see, the can hit the poor fellow on the back of the head while he was praying. Look if you want political correctness, rmove this blog from your reading matter now.

Chris France

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