In recent days we’ve been contacted by a number of expats – especially newer arrivals in our lovely commune – concerned by an apparent spate of intimidating threats to their property perpetrated by a very large man in a very yellow jacket, driving a very large tractor around, and in some cases almost into, their…
Songs about telephone calls for Helen’s theme this week are almost as ubiquitous as the devices themselves. It’s not hard to reel off a few titles almost without thinking (maybe they’re on a kind of mental speed-dial). However, this one was easy for me – the mighty Undertones, from 1979. Two and a half minutes…
“Enough is a feast.” … as my dear old grandad used to say. There again, though: One-Liner Wednesday 7 February 2018
I do tend to take Helen’s Song Lyric Sunday prompts quite literally, so this week’s theme of ‘Truth’ needed a little self-discipline in order to avoid conflating ‘true’ with ‘truth’. Coincidentally, as I first saw Helen’s prompt this morning I was listening to Bob Dylan’s ‘True Love Tends To Forget’: a very fine song, but…
“You can’t have everything; where would you put it?” Steven Wright – my favourite American comedian. One-Liner Wednesday 31 January 2018
I’ve had more than my share of goodbyes, thank you very much, so when Helen set the theme of ‘Goodbye/Farewell’ for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, I knew immediately whay my pick would be. For ten years, from 1985 to 1995, I was only around at weekends – and not all of them. That’s what…
Dear fellow anglophone residents of our fair commune. Many of you will have seen, and no doubt been concerned by, reports of the recent wave of mass hysteria apparently triggered by the deep discounting of Nutella chocolate hazelnut spread by the Intermarché supermarket chain. You will have seen this because it has been reported by…
“No problem is so big that it can’t be ignored.” The peerless wisdom of Homer Simpson.One-Liner Wednesday 24 January 2018
This week’s theme, as set by Helen at This Thing Called Life One Word At A Time is ‘comfort’. Is it too soon for another Pink Floyd song? Probably, so that rules out ‘Comfortably Numb’. Pity. But it’s never too soon for another bit of the blues. so here’s a Willie Dixon song, as performed…
We didn’t see you at the recent annual Vin d’Amitie at the village hall. We can only assume that you didn’t know there was free drink involved (quite an agreeable rosé méthode champènoise, as it happens). You may not even know what the Vin d’Amitie is. For the uninitiated, it’s an evening ‘do’ early in…
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