Chinese dis orientation

One thing I miss living down her occasionally is a chinese meal. It’s as though I need the monosodium glutamate otherwise I become disoriented.

At a meeting yesterday with fellow Currencies Direct cohorts, I found about a new service being offered locally to get around the ongoing problem of a lack of taxis. Someone has launched a motorbike taxi service from Sophia Antipolis. Now personally, I would not be able to put up with helmet hair, or at the very least the destruction of my immaculately coiffured barnet, but I imagine a large number of people might find this a very appealing prospect, being cheaper and quicker than a taxi. However when you get to my age speed is a thing of the past, if you get my drift.

And talking of speed, a clear reference to my skiing ability, (courtesy of the tenuous links department) my picture shows how quiet the ski station of Geroliere Le Neiges was earlier in the week when I transported my business activities some 20 miles as the crow flies to the north for the day. My regular readers will realise how dedicated I am to work, so a day off is simply not possible, even when apparently asleep I am working, but I find different working environments can stimulate the mind rather than being in the same place each day.

My alpine office. Difficult choice, a wet day in the office in England or here, hmmm...

This morning is of course church, at Cafe Latin where the great and the good of the Valbonne ex-patriot community tend to congregate on a Friday morning in order to consider what material to donate to me for the coming week. Not everyone who attends knows this of course and all sorts of salacious gossip is discussed, much of it far too libelous for consideration for this very balanced and considered column, which will have nothing to do with tittle-tattle unless it is of a particularly entertaining composition. Of course, many do not realise that they imparting subject matter, they only discover this afterwards, and then only if they have failed to pay the correct bribe to the writer ahead of the publication deadline. Some to not realise that this is the correct protocol. A similar scenario I suppose to the immortal words of the poor unfortunate who is being asked by an interviewer in Monty Python’s Dinsdale Piranha sketch what exactly he had done to have a table nailed to his head “I had transgressed the unwritten rule”. What exactly was that asked the interviewer, “He didn’t tell us that”.

That nice lady decorator sloped off to see a film in Valbonne last night, where they have English language original version films several times a month, but I refused to be drawn, well, I was drawn to the pub for a sharpener, obviously, so once more the stable door of good intentions was shut after the horse had bolted (its food) and thus the bathroom scales recalibration has become all the more pressing and depressing.

Chris France
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