One-Liner Wednesday: World’s Best Scarecrow?
Out standing in his field. One-Liner Wednesday 21 February 2018
One-Liner Wednesday: On The Other Hand..
“Too much of anything is just enough” – Grateful Dead: “I Need A Miracle” In the interests of editorial balance, after last week’s paean to abstemiousness, we present an alternative viewpoint. One that, in all honesty, we find rather more appealing. Albeit vicariously. One-Liner Wednesday 14 February 2018
Cutting Crew
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…
One-Liner Wednesday: Moderation In All Things…
“Enough is a feast.” … as my dear old grandad used to say. There again, though: One-Liner Wednesday 7 February 2018
One-Liner Wednesday: Need a Tardis?
“You can’t have everything; where would you put it?” Steven Wright – my favourite American comedian. One-Liner Wednesday 31 January 2018
Faire-Le-Dodo (87): Will Nutella madness ’spread’* here?
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…
One-Liner Wednesday: Homeric
“No problem is so big that it can’t be ignored.” The peerless wisdom of Homer Simpson.One-Liner Wednesday 24 January 2018
Faire-Le-Dodo (87): Did You Know?…
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…
One-Liner Wednesday: Fashion Faux-Pas
“Is that a new shirt, or have you just been sick?” Picture this – if you can. August 1967: the Summer of Love and also Liverpool’s first Saturday home game of the new season. I was standing on the Kop, as was my wont in those days. Close to me was a lad wearing a…
One-Liner Wednesday: Full Marks For Effort
“So ‘vous’ means ‘you’ then?” Perfectly serious question posed by an English lady at Monday’s French Conversation class. She has lived here for eleven years. Eleven years. One-Liner Wednesday 10 January 2018
the only deadhead in the hameau 