Opera Ration

A comment from the Reverend Jeff yesterday caught my eye. He suggests in response to my setting up ROYWAG, the Royal Wedding Avoidance Group, that perhaps it might be better named WANKROYWAG, standing for the William And Kate Royal Wedding Avoidance Group. This is a good point, well made, and I think I may adopt this epithet as it seems to sum up more precisely my feelings about the while worthless event. Even now I feel that it is helping me to handle the whole spectacle.

Preparations are almost complete for the nice lady decorator to fly off for the WANK (William And Kate) event on Friday together with my daughter, Charlie, on the pretext of an interview at a college in London. Given the interview is the day before this prestigious event, I suggested that I should be the one to accompany her, with the crowds that are expected in London, making the trip potentially uncomfortable, but I was firmly overruled. Clearly that nice lady decorator was shielding me from the crowds and selflessly putting herself to the fore and having to put up with witnessing the event against her wishes.

My picture today is of some old git posing for a picture which he hopes will be the front cover of his book, and which he hopes to complete whilst enjoying a few days respite from a nagging headache (aka that nice lady…no I can’t say that).

Old git at work in one of the ante rooms of my office

I am looking forward to whatever culinary delight my son has in mind for me this week, him being on what he is calling his gap year, but I feel I have been over exposed to chicken nugget curry and am hoping for something else equally challenging; marmite and marmalade sandwiches perchance?

I have just caught that nice lady decorator setting our Sky plus system to “record” another 6 episodes of Midsommers Murders, to go with the other 53 episodes that are recorded and so far unwatched. It is almost unthinkable but at the same time inevitable that Fridays event will be set further to clog up the Sky Plus memory whilst she is away.

I have been asked by Bill Colegrave to alert opera lovers to this years Bastide St Mathieu opera events in July, full details of which will be on the websitelater today. As these are normally sold out in advance, it is best to get your tickets ordered soon. Sadly I will be languishing in the UK at that time, which is a shame because I have always fancied a bit of an aria. Someone one described me as a bit operatic but I don’t like hospitals.

The Riviera Business Club roadshow event which was to have taken place in Sophia Antipolis on Thursday night has been postponed. Had I not already decided that no alcohol will pass my lips until Friday, I may have attended, but when considering whether my presence may be required, I came to the conclusion that I have mopped up most of the delegates for Currencies Direct, so may give my liver a short holiday instead.

Shortly I will begin preparations for Le Tour De Finance being staged in Mougins 19th May, where all sorts of financial experts will be on hand to offer advice and help, but more importantly, a free apero will be offered and it will be free to get it! Helen Humphrey, local artist and most of the International clubs will be represented along with banks, financial advisors, mortgage chappies and the like. You can register your interest on the website

Chris France