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This is Wiggo crossing the line,
But wait! There’s Froomy not far behind,
money for the rich,ship out the poor,
The hordes at the corner, the girl next door
Pulling up this bastard climb:
The gradient’s against me, but I’m on time.
Old Wiggo’s getting older and colder
Mind that loonie on the hard hard shoulder.

Snorting noisily as I passes,
watching the lips of the half-baked masses.
Krauts turn their heads as I approaches,
And stare from bushes at my blank-faced coaches.
Demons cannot turn my course;
I chundle on like a crazy horse.
In the bus they’re sleeping no one wakes,
But something in my headset gently shakes.

Now he freshens. His climb is done.
Down towards Pau he descends
Cheery Brits on the road to Chartres,
Through fields of Two Tone Ska,
Set on the plain like gargantuan sideburns.
Nods and Rockers,Its all a Blur:
From the Style Council to Elastica
Men dress as bread.

Bikes of thanks, looks from skanks,
Bikes of joy from me and that boy,
Gruelling Hills and fabulations
To buy a new scooter or other titilations,
And applications for android phones
And lurid shots from homemade drones
And chunder chunder from all the nations,
News if you want it, news if you don’t,
Bikes with chains to cut off your nose,
Bikes with bottoms in panty-hose,
Bikes for beetniks, dropouts and hoes,
But no bike for Lance, he was a genius in France.
Bikes of alloy and aluminum too
stickered with plastic of every hue,
The pink, the violet, the white and the blue,
Tin tacky,wonky dull and imploring,
The dumb and delinquent still I’m not scoring,
Clever, stupid, short and fat,
Beat on the brat with a baseball bat.

Thousands are still hungover,
Dreaming of us scary monsters
Or of service with a winning smile in McDonalds or King Burger:
Agog in working Marseille, agog in well-set Saint-Tropez,
Agog in the Costieres de Nimes,
They continue their dreams,
But they shall wake soon and hope for cyclists,
And none will see us flashing by
Without a flickering camera eye,
For the TdF is ours, Teeam sky has won it with such boredom
But really, sincere thanks to WH Auden.

June. The hot and invariably dry summer months are approaching at speed.In the spring of course the grass grows, fast. Summer just hits, hard. We must make preparations, throw away our jeans and socks then wait for hairs to grow back on our knees. Our adventures on and around the Turpitude are now distant, vague, yet cherished memories; if folks like Lister and Lozzi didn’t exist, you’d have to bleedin’ well invent them, arf, arf. The unspeakably hot and to my mind wholly unacceptable Provençal summer days are nevertheless a great excuse for the revered elders of IBSA to pass their time in peaceful reflection and great thoughtfulness. In Steve’s case, I suggested that maybe a little self-improvement would not go amiss.

He had, quite wrongly of course, attributed to me the coining of the crudely amusing axiom: ” If an Englishman’s home is his castle, An American’s is his hassle.” and had decided to take immediate remedial action. It sounded much more like a half-baked fortune cookie to me and I told him so. By strange coincidence he also claimed to have partially unravelled the famous Da Selbi Code (sic). He meant of course the De Selby Codex, a collection of some 2000 sheets of foolscap closely handwritten on both sides. The signal distinction of the manuscript being that no one word of the writing is legible.

“Da Selbi has some interesting things to say on the subject of houses.” Steve told me excitably, “A row of houses he regards as a row of necessary evils. The softening and degeneration of the human race he attributes to the progressive predilection for interiors and waning interest in the art of going out and staying there”.

With this in mind, Steve had elected his new domicile in a fallen and naturally hollowed out sweet chestnut stump in Maurin’s garden. Here he planned to sleep, smoke, drink and idle away the summer months. His cosy little “chez-moi” doubled too as an out sized ashtray, spittoon and undoubtedly a pissoir too. He would occasionally invite me round for tea and to “partake.” Naturally, I always refused. And then it dawned on me, “Tammy’s back! Go on say it! Tammy’s back”. It had been so long that I had easily managed to forget all about her, but now I was taunting him, what was stopping me from doing a little dance, pointing at him, prodding nastily and making him blush some more?

That Tammy actually was back was the bad news, the really great news though, Steve told me with a lopsided grin, was that her delayed return had been due to completing a brand new and original comeback album of obscure country and western songs, in French! It had already gone platinum in Canada with a couple of singles riding high in the charts “Bras de scratch, coeur en teflon” and “Billy m’a brise le coeur a Castorama puis j’ai pleure jusqu’a Leroy Merlin”. Why the hell hadn’t she done “je me suis fait une epilation jambaire pour ceci?” I moaned bitterly. Maybe she had.

My own particular contribution to the toils of human endeavour was to experiment with one of Blaise Pascal’s more unusual and original “Pansies”: “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” On the condition that the man in question had a big pile of books and an adequate supply of chilled pilsener, I would have to agree with him that people these days really don’t know shit about metaphysics.

I chose the coolness of the cellar in my home in this tiny burg that reminds me so much of Streslau, where I lived and worked for several years back in the eighties. The town is partly old and partly new, spacious modern boulevards and residential quarters surround and embrace the narrow, tortuous and picturesque streets of the original town. In the outer circle the upper classes live; in the inner, the shops, bars cafés and restaurants are situated; and behind their prosperous fronts the hidden populous but wretched lanes and alleys filled with a poverty stricken, turbulent and (in large measure) criminal class, of which I myself am a leading light.

When I am not out and about dressed like a tramp begging shamelessly for money, or worse, badly disguised as a leper to scare away the Germans, I do in fact stay at home, quietly in a room. Silently waiting for the intermittent furtive taps on my living room shutters. Three short raps and I am up on my feet, ready to serve, Staffordshire style through the four feet of thick stone windowsill that separate me from my clients. For there, outside pinned to the shutter in my own neat and attractive handwriting, a little notice which reads: “Nuckminster Listerene” (the name had stuck) “Connoisseur quality, competitive pricing .Knock three times.”

One day as I sat in my reverie, waiting for trade, I was startled and almost overcome when I was awoken, not by gentle tapping, but a single heavy knock on the front door. In all the years that I have lived here, this I can assure you has never happened before, A first! I leapt up to answer it.

Question; who would make the – let’s just call it arduous – journey from Albuquerque New Mexico to Collobrieres France just for a 24 hour stopover? Answer; the bleary eyed moustachioed dude in a Stetson that I found on my doorstep late this afternoon. Why would he do this you may well ask? As we stand, staring at each other in disbelief I have absolutely no idea. One night in Bangkok? Just maybe, at a pinch, but here?

I’m not sure if he actually did say “howdy” as he offered me his hand and said in a gruff voice “Raylan”, which I took to be his name, but I did invite him in and proffered a cold beer, which he politely refused as it didn’t feature on his list of refreshing summer drinks. Home-made lemonade on the other hand would be more than welcome. I sat him down with a bottle of Pschitt! He quenched his thirst without comment.It was hard to squeeze much conversation out of this guy without beer, but I did learn that he was Ray Lannigan, Ice-cream king of

Wagon Wheel NM and that he was here because he smelled opportunity; my Dear and recently departed friend Phyllis had in her finite wisdom written a small piece in The Curry County Tribune about her recent joyous holiday, also posted a couple of summer fun pictures on-line. He had been planning to stay the night in The Expanded Backside, again on Phyllis’s recommendation, but it was occupied, by Germans. Could he “flop the night with me?”

Well he sure didn’t seem like a bundle of laughs to me, but how often does Rodney, Duke of Yendor get to entertain visiting Royalty? “Sure”. And I showed him and his little bag to the great guest room in the sky where he could rest shower and change. “Thanks but I’ll pass on the shower and changing bit.”

An hour or so later came the inevitable, the part that I always dread when visiting Americans are in town. Ray announced that he was “so darned hungry” he would even consider eating cheese. I can’t remember how many times I have sworn that I will never set foot in a restaurant with an American again. Justified.He hadn’t been able to stomach the unfamiliar offerings of Air France nor had he been able to make himself understood since he set down in Paris some ten hours previously. How he got here at all with nothing but a scrap of paper with my name and address scribbled on it is more than a little worrying.

“OK Ray”, I say a little harshly ” but first I’m going to lay down a few ground rules about dining out in this country. Firstly, things usually start out with an aperitif or two, invariably Pastis with ice and a jug of water; we don’t drink mugs of milky coffee with our meals and beer is considered uncouth, just wine or water. Got it?” He nodded strangely, I continued. “It is customary to use a knife and fork; with the knife in the right hand, or even a knife and a crusty piece of bread in the left hand The meal will last several hours and of course please try to remember that in Europe a waitress is considered to be a regular member of the human race. Hands off! If you pay for the meal, I will take care of the tip, as I know from experience you will never, ever be able to get your head around French tipping. Finally, the meal will almost certainly finish with the smug and sweaty chef offering us a glass of his special reserve fire-water, reserved specially that is, for the clients he has ripped off the most that evening, and that my friend is going to be us. Still with me?” He was, but maybe it was just the long journey and lack of food that made him look so jaundiced.

I wouldn’t normally be dumb enough to eat in a restaurant that I knew was for sale, would you? The safest bet is to eat somewhere recently opened, still trying to please, bending over backwards is even better. They never put up for sale signs of course, but central scrutinizer that I am, I happen to know that The Procrastinating Provençal is on the market for a cool one and a half million dollars. What’s more, I had a plan. Happy in the knowledge that they would take any credit card Ray could throw at them, two dudes in Stetsons were out on the town.

It was apparent that Ray considered the French national aperitif to be some kind of awful patent medicine, but he swigged it willingly and it had the same effect on him as on those that actually enjoy the stuff; instant-on loud and fervent chatter, borderline obnoxious. As he outlined his great plans for a string of Raylan’s ice-cream parlours, I noted with relief that

our waitress – obviously hand-picked by the proprietor’s wife – was more like Winston Churchill in drag than anything he was likely to grope – but the night was young and I remained vigilant. My reputation in this town was already at rock bottom, but with Ray around it could always take a turn for the worse.

The meal itself went surprisingly well; we had meat and potatoes, puddings, even some cheese, and zero vegetables, washed down with bottle after bottle of Château Bastidon Rose wine that Ray was drinking as if it was Bud, no, not straight from the bottle stupid, I soon put a stop to that. After some slightly sobering strong black coffee, a greasy blob duly popped out of his kitchen brandishing an old fashioned looking bottle with a whole fat pear inside and came to our table with two tiny glasses. His trite and oft repeated speech fell on deaf ears, for Raylan was into yet another tear-jerking rendition of his favorite song, Lonesome Cowboy Bert – there’s the Zappa for those of you not expecting it – and only had eyes for the serving Wench.

I had a feeling that it was a bit too late to explain That Dr. Phyllis MacFarlane, careers adviser at Clovis Community College and Socorro Miss Personality 1975 was entirely responsible for Raylan’s rather pointless visit. She had noticed that Collobrieres had been dubbed the Capital des Maures, and could easily have been forgiven for assuming that the word Maures was French for ice-cream. Cold cones in your face has only recently been knocked off the top spot of popular things to do, by looking for bullet holes. It was, far too late. I don’t think we were actually thrown out of the diner or even sang any more on the way home, kicked any cats or peed through anyone’s letterbox .

My next recollection was Sunday morning.”Howdy Rod” He did say it this time of that I’m sure, also that I never seen a man so bright and so early on a Sunday. He had already been into town and bought fresh croissants and a local map, how much French did he learn last night? The coffee was percolating nicely and Ray was bubbling with excitement sticking pins into the map and sounding like he was playing solo Monopoly. Two motels here and here, a proper gas station here with a Toyota dealership and a car wash. A fast-food outlet here here and here. Jeez Rod, there are thousands of people out there with nothing to eat but stinking ice-cream made with some kind of nut, the likes of which I haven’t seen since the last time I took a shower, and he grinned for the first time since we’d met.He was gobbling pastries, slurping coffee looking at his watch and talking all at the same time, like a man who had left his helicopter running on the outskirts of town……?

“Look Rodney, you take care of the relocation incentives, tax breaks and recruitment subsidies – ship in some Chinks if you need to – as we agreed last night – and I’ll be back in a week, oh and you can tell grease-ball that since his place is over three hundred years old, its time for a freaking refit, one million cash, that’s my final offer.”

And he was gone… Pschitt!

Lesson learned, they’ll have to change the slogan “Collobrieres Capital des Maures” to something they might understand in Eddy or Grant County, Roxy and elsewhere; something like: “Collobrieres, we’re growing, come join us.”

We are growing, just not what they’d think.

Low Rider

This is Steve Milliband crossing the line,
Winning the race to pay off the fine,
Money for the rich,ship out the poor,
The bar at the corner, the girl next door.Wo!
Pulling up Ventoux, a steady climb:
The gradient’s against me, but I’m on time.
Steve Millibands’s getting older and colder
Mind that crap on the hard hard shoulder.

Snorting noisily as I passes,
Watching the lips of the half-baked masses.
Krauts turn their heads as I approaches,
Stare from bushes at my blank-faced coaches.
Farm hands cannot turn my course;
I chundle on like a crazy horse.
In the bus they’re sleeping no one wakes,
But a jug in my bedroom gently shakes.
(No what I’m sayin’?)

Armstrong freshens. His climb is done.
Down towards Avignon he descends
Towards ice-cream tubs on the road to Verdun,
Towards the fields of amputees, Barnes and Barnes
Set on the dark plain like gargantuan chestnuts.
All American rejects, him for her:
From the black-eyed peas, to the pale-green day
Men long for beers.

Bikes of thanks, looks from skanks,
Bikes of joy from me and the boy,
Gruelling Hills and fabulations
To buy a new frock or other titilations,
And applications for android phones
And lurid shots from homemade drones
And chunder chunder from all the nations.
News if you want it, news if you don’t,
Bikes with chains to cut off your nose,
Bikes with bottoms in panty-hose,
Bikes for beetniks, dropouts and hoes,
Bikes for Lance, he’s a genius in France.
Bikes of alloy and aluminum too
stickered with plastic of every hue,
The pink, the violet, the white and the blue,
The wonky, the bonky, the dull and imploring,
The dumb and delinquent still I’m not scoring,
Clever, stupid, short and fat,
Come on Bono just beat on the brat.

Thousands are still hungover,
Dreaming of us scary monsters
Or of service with a winning smile in McDonalds or King Burger:
Agog in working Marseille, agog in well-set Saint-Tropez,
Agog in the Costieres de Nimes,
They continue their dreams,
But shall wake soon and hope for cyclists,
And none will see us flashing by
Without a flickering camera eye,
For who can bear this pedalling boredom
Without sincere apologies to WH Auden?

How gorgeous are we? The Idiot Bastard Sons and one of their daughters swept nonchalently into the old port of Saint Tropez in the most exquisite spring-morning sunshine. Maurin led the way on the Harley Davidson Fat Boy dressed in the full 17th century pre-camouflage, red white and blue army uniform he normally sported once a year for this town’s annual sneer at the Spanish parade. He actually was brightly feathered, definitely stoned, and although it grieves me to say it, immaculate. Steve in that dreadful dressing gown thing was hanging on bravely with one hand to the sissy bar, gesticulating wildly at the finger pointing crowds on either side. As if all this was not enough, there was Taz to the right of them and me to the left, one looking mean in her prescription biker gear, the other leisure suit Larry, the undisputed king of the dickheads, both on crudely hand painted, psychedelic, vintage cyclomoteurs. How sexy we are but we just don’t know it.

We were welcomed aboard the Turpitude by Lister, an  over-assuming  hypo-sensitive nouveau riche from – I’m guessing – somewhere near Bradford. West Yorkshire that is, not Pennsylvania, and a slutty Loz in a very short skirt and a long leather jacket. “Darlings” she giggled, ” come on in, and up to the poop deck for drinkies” She giggled some more.

To me it was immediately obvious that this was going to be a greasy salty snacky affair with anything you like to drink as long as it was gin and tonic. Knowing that parties of this nature inevitably led to unseemly behaviour, quarrelling, vomiting and sometimes hospitalisation, it was not to my liking. I turned and left the shrinking ship without a word. This of course was only for effect, as once I am finally ready to party, I’m good and ready. I headed off to my good friend Marcel’s épicerie fine just across the street. There I slapped a couple of sickly sausage rolls that I had pocketed before leaving on his gleaming counter and said: “Marcel my bon ami, could you please recommend a wine  as a suitable accompaniment to these things? A perfect match, a marriage made in heaven?”

Marcel was decent enough to examine them closely, picked one up and sniffed  it attentively and after having identified it correctly  as  chair à saucisse in pâte feuilletée, produced a knife and cut them into twelve bite sized morsels, then over to a refrigerated display for six bottles of rosé that covered the entire pinky spectrum from the palest salmon to a much deeper greanadine, then two pristine glasses before he asked me if I was ready for “une experience organaleptique“.

“Ready Marcel” I replied nervously, fearing for my organs as the tasting began. We nibbled  at the truly disgusting mouthfuls of Britain and sniffed swirled and gargled our way through these explosively nosed bottles of blush before finally deciding on a cantankerous Château Carrubier from a nearby and much maligned vineyard, agreeing also  that it would be a short lived romance, divorced before the clock struck twelve. No matter, Marcel quickly chilled out a dozen bottles and I could hardly wait to find out how they would get along with the pork pies, roasted peanuts and extruded polystyrene crunchy crispies that were lying in wait for me  back on the Turpitude.

The party could not really be described as being in full swing when I leapt back on board with my big box of wine. Lister had made an effort by playing a not so easy listening eighties disco mix tape on his multi-knobbed and functioned music-centre and was bobbing up and down, twitching unconventionally to the beat. Maurin and Steve were motionless, freeze-framed waiting for my return. Lozzi and Taz were idly reminiscing about “schooldays”.

They were not really friends, but their paths had crossed many many times at stupidly expensive private schools in various parts of England and less fortunately, Wales. The competition to see who could be expelled the most often had never been made official, as far as I know anyway, but between Taz with her legendary and inexplicable rudeness and Lozzi’s “habit” of not drinking anything but gin after ten in the morning, well, if it had been a competition, I would probably have declared it a draw. eight all.

If a party can be described as a handful of fancily dressed persons in varying states of mind alteration, with a few drinks, nibblies and a certain quantity of yowser, yowser, yowsers thrown in for good measure, then this was a party, but no more. Not really a get together, just a gathering, a happening! But sadly no kazoos, tin-whistles or jaw’s harps. Bum steer. This was no party at all until Maurin finally decided to become its life and soul.

He startled us all by slamming his clenched fist hard on the coffee table with his thumb rigidly upright. Bang! “Osco Manosco!” he boomed,

“Have I got a good one for you?”

With a little cleverly disguised difficulty he managed to a salvage a tiny and curiously irregular object from his, err, sporren?  ”This is a heptahedron, a seven sided die and we are about to play a game I learned from the Italian kids back in Marseilles when I was a boy, a game of forfeits, a ridiculous game par excellence. It is  really very simple but very dependant on mood and inebriation. The first player – and yes you are really players – the first player to throw a seven –  has to dream up some kind of prank or trick to play, I hardly need to add that the more reckless, absurd or down right idiotic this thing may be, the better….The next one to throw a seven will decide who will execute this crass and hopefully self-destructive deed, and the lucky third seven will be obliged to pay for all  the resulting expenses incurred. Got it everybody?”

We must have  got it, because the play began, we tossed the die idly and not without decorum until I of course threw the first seven.

“Well then” I mumbled gravely, “someone will have to go to Marcel’s cheese and wine shop and present him with a freshly scraped dog turd, then ask him deadpan to suggest a suitable wine to accompany it.”

Not exactly a blue plate dinner of an idea I know, but the others seemed to find it mildly entertaining, and it would do as an appetizer at least.

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    More so than the blond who had such shallow aspirations. The horses changed their course, and she lost her balance.
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  • It was hapless Lister who chucked the next seven and immediately insisted that it should be his beautiful new bride that did the deed.

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    Steve threw the next seven and had to foot the bill, he  instantly produced a large wad of notes from a secret inside stash and handed Loz a couple of large denomination, and in a fatherly tone, said “run along dear  take those two little fellas for a ride.”

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    Lozi returned about half an hour later, crestfallen. Marcel, “the impudent creature” had just smirked at her and handed over a case of Château Chunder for “Monsieur Rodney, with my compliments” and that had been that.

    I gotta get drunk and I sure do dread it ’cause I know just what I’m gonna do,…So back to the coffee table, first round to me, but Lister once again was first up with a seven. I was not entirely sure if this gross little Yorkshire dimwit had fully understood the niceties of this brilliant game, or would be capable of inventing a decent prank if given the opportunity. He surprised me on both counts.

    “Go swipe summat from’t nearest Lidl” He blurted  without hesitation. “And if I ‘ave my way t’ll be t’prince of self pity o’er there that does it.” Looking rather nastily at Steve.

    Sure enough, complicit wifey threw the next seven and looked over at the trembling yellow jacket. Steve of course had no understanding of anything the unlikely Lister said and remained motionless and oddly distracted,  singing softly, naturally and very annoyingly, “if you’re really dumb then show me you’re thumb, if you’re really….”I can’t believe it’s not Beefheart!”

    A delighted Lister threw the final seven, he of the - eat all, drink all, pay nowt -  mentality laughed derisively, ” ‘Ow am I supposed to pay ‘owt if’t daft bugger’s to steal summat? Great daft wazzocks the lot o’ yer.”

     

    After my painstaking translation of Lister’s malicious intent Steve set off Lidl bound, hell bent on thievery,with a little unnecessary encouragement from Taz: ” Chin up Stevie, you can do it tiger, you’re a man now!” Now what the hell did she mean by that?

    Steve was gone some time, during which, Maurin broke out the Nucky balls and lit up a whopper. The British invasion was at first reluctant, preferring G and T’s over donkey shit, but soon caved in beneath  the hashish aroma that could, as they say, level Tacoma. His agitated, almost ecstatic return was in sharp contrast to the euphoric indolence of those who were still alert enough to greet him.

    “Steve honey! What kept you?” I asked as he staggered aboard, beaming.

    “A little Irish fuck kept me, kept me for over an hour, that’s what kept me.Vindictive little bastogne!”

    “Then why so happy then Steve?” I asked genuinely puzzled, “What’s with the grin?”

    The grin turned into an obviously forced yet highly offensive snicker, and then he surprised me with a little unprecedented  insight: did you know? There is only one thing worse than being sober when everyone else is drunk? That’s right , being drunk when everybody else is fucking stoned. Shit heads

    The poor misfortunate had not unreasonably assumed that the aim of the game was to make the loser, the thrower of the last fatal seven, spend a huge amount of money and if this were to be true, then he had definitely come up trumps. “There I was, handcuffed  and offering to pay fifty euros cash for that one tube of Vaseline in my pocket, but no, not good enough for the potato guy ‘We always prosecute thieving scumbags, no remorse, no compunction’ and so we had to wait for the police to show up.”

    The Gendarmes of course did not respond to yet another call from Lidl, bemoaning their pesky pilferers – “Did you know? There is no proper word for shoplifting in French.” Not that the cops had better things to do of course, just more interesting things like crossword puzzles, picking their noses or patrolling nudist beaches and the like. “So there I was, stumped, waiting for an imaginary policeman to come and arrest me, when I finally realised who the fat chump in sunglasses actually was, I upped my offer to a twenty-five thousand Euro donation to help hungry and thirsty persons with diseases in Africa and Voila, here I am. You lose my friend”. Staring ghoulishly now at a fraught and furious Lister.  ”Done deal. I guess we’d better have another round?”

    “Well that must be something of a set back to you Steve, particularly with the mountain stages coming  up tomorrow?”

    “Absolutely Brian, a bit of a setback indeed with the fucking Alpe de bleedin’ Huez  looming on my horizon. Out bloody rageous!”

    Maurin could not help himself from laughing, but dutifully informed Steve that he had in fact been eliminated, as according to his rules, the loser was the one that failed to accomplish his forfeit, nothing to do with the cash. “You’re out mate” he said, languidly passing him the joint.

    “What do you mean out?” Steve was indignant, outraged, “I did ‘swipe summat’, he said, and yes, it did sound fairly odd, coming from the lips of a son of Sacramento. “Take a look at this!” From a pocket he produced a slim but dense  volume, entitled “The Lidl Black Book”, sub-titled “The Absolute Bastards Guide  To Fast Moving Consumer Goods And I Ain’t Talking Ferraris”

    Game on. Taz it would seem had known all along just how loaded was Maurin’s little die and deftly conjured up the first seven. ” Someone ,” she said mysteriously, “will have  to moped along, buck naked to the famous local police station, the Gendarmerie de Saint Tropez, march straight in and declare that they find blue to be a particularly ugly colour.”

    “High five Taz” That’s my girl, this really was a haymaker, a Saturday night special, God let it be Lister. And so it was; Lister to play and Rodney to pay. Pay what? The bail money I suppose. Let’s wait and see.

    Fired up on Nucky balls, Lister showed little fear or apprehension of the task in hand, but insisted that before setting off, that his  teeth must be white and his breath fresh. After an hour or so in the ship’s bathroom he was at last ready for some action. He arrived back on deck and proceeded to strip down; off with his crimple cut sta-prest pants and matching blazer, off with his mauve and subtly embroidered polo shirt, off with his string vest and cock-sock… There he stood, pleasingly plump and almost naked  imploring us to allow him to keep his little white socks and pink deck shoes… All right, all right, in this kind of situation there is little difference between buck naked and bare assed, we were indulgent and bent the rules. Maurin started  the bike  and gingerly helped the boy into the saddle and he was off, yodelling happily, off on the greatest  and stupidest adventure of his life.

    Once inside the hallowed barracks, Lister found himself confronted with a pinky cheeked, very black moustachioed and rather toothsome young sergeant and immediately let rip with his set piece: ” blue is an ‘orrible colour” he  announced  decisively.

    “Couldn’t agree more sir” said the soldier, without looking up, “brown is one of my own personal favourites, yes brown sir, everything comes out brown in the end, if you know what I’m saying sir”

    If Lister had been able to give a thought as to the possible consequences of boldly going naked into a police station and being rather rude, then this would have been beyond his wildest imaginings, so he tried it again, trying to remember Taz’s exact words. “I find blue to be a particularly shitty colour matey” he said at last.

    “Now listen to me Sir, said the Gendarme patiently,  ”If you have any crimes to report, lost cats, parking offences, noisy neighbours or nudity please fill in this form or I shall have to bid you goodnight for I am a busy man.”

    Lister was nonplussed and turned on his ass to leave. Looking up finally, the pretty Gendarme stopped him in his tracks; ” One moment Sir, if you don’t mind  me asking, what exactly have you been smoking to come in here undressed like that?”

    Undressed, nonplussed but stoned out of his tiny, Lister turned again. “Why, nucky balls sir, or to be more precise… Nuckminter Listerine!”

    “Well if you could see your way sharing some of it with me and my boys in unpleasant uniforms, there would be no little advantage to your good self in the matter of being arrested and left to rot, bruised and battered in jail…if you grasp my train of thought sir?”

    Lister grasped it all right, but exalted by his spectacular exploit of nomenclature, he invited the good fellow to call on him the very next morning, then turned again and ran. Nuckmister Listerine.  Eureka! “Me dad allers said ‘where there’s muck there’s money’ and ‘ he were right.

    When he finally found his way back to the old port , the docks and  eventually his own berth,  in a frenzy of self loathing and fear, the unclad Yorkshireman clambered back aboard only to find his house guests  drowsily queuing at the gates of delirium. He toyed briefly with the idea of heaving too, then  kinda, sorta, the enormity of the day’s events struck him, hit him hard and he flew into a mindless beserk fit of northern English pique. “Twenty-five grand outta pocket, baring me bum in front of coppers, what a bloody day, this ends now! Bugger off! All of yer  Just bugger off now!” He grabbed a roll of notes from a drawer of his bureau and went in search of Steve, finding him easily, snoring peacefully in a lifeboat and luckily for him with his mouth wide open, the most convenient  orifice in which to stuff the cash before  his dumb lifeless body was thrown mercilessly overboard. “Noow bugger off all of yer , off me boat if yer know what’s good for yer.” He was on the rampage, screaming, insane. He began running up and down the decks shaking hid fists and dongling his dongler. “Fuck off, all o’ yer, just fuck offff!  Lozzi! up t’anchor, we’re off  ’ome!”

    We did finally fish Steve out of the water, choking on banknotes and took the trembling wreck across to  the nearest bistrot. Someone ordered coffee and brandy for four, while I quietly slipped away to a little side-street boutique and spent most of the cash on a brand spanking new outfit worthy of lonesome cowboy Bertrand, the king of the mountains. When I got back with some neatly ribboned parcels, they were at it again, that little die, seven-up. They really don’t give a fuck about anything, those three, how proud I was. It had been decided that we were to retire to a little karaoke bar  that Maurin knew of and sing daft French tearjerkers. I told you we’d wind up singing the blues.What was left of Lister’s money should more or less cover the drinks.

    ” But what about  Lidl and those poor starving children?” Taz enquired sweetly.

    Steve broke into an engaging textbook laugh that I would never have dreamed his was capable of Lidl? Lidl? Still laughing, “”what makes you think I actually went to Lidl? I found that piece of crap  right here, left on a table while I was drinking all afternoon and now it’s at the bottom of the sea where it belongs.You did’t really think that I went to…. Did you?

    The evening before this most dreaded of parties I dropped by at Maurin’s with the pretext of “needing to finalize some important paperwork for his admission to our club.” I had to add “just kidding mate,” pretty damned quick, or I think he really would have shot me. I was, how can I put it? Mildly surprised to see Taz in the distance wielding a large orange axe with seldom seen dexterity, chopping a little wood for the fire. I said “hi Taz”, she replied “hi dad”, further embarrassment was delayed by the timely arrival of Steve on the kind of vintage racing bike that an be picked up by any dumpster, flying down the rough stone drive, both arms aloft, dressed only in a long flowing  yellow dressing-gown and plastic sandals.

    He gracefully dismounted and insisted that the long suffering Maurin interviewed him, again!

    “The great Steve Milliband has finally made it home and if I’m lucky, I might get some sense out of him, howdy Steve”

    “Bonjour Nelson”

    “Great ride today !”

    “Oui, oui! bon ride aujourd’hwee, trez bon.”  Feigning breathlessness.

    “The peloton was extremely vigilant today Steve.”

    “Oui, oui, extremement vigilant n’est pas Nelson?”

    “But you held on for quite a few kilometres didn’t you?

    “Oui, bien sur j’ai tenoo quelques petits kilometres Nelson”

    “But in the end Lance was too strong for you.”

    “Oui, a la  fin, Lance etait trop fort pour moi.”

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    That s impossible, Tanya, I was there, he was all over me.
    “To sum up then Steve, would it be fair to say a banana is a dildo to a lovestruck camel?”

    “Oui, tout a fait Nelson, oui, oui, exactement….”

    ” Steve, can you confirm the rumours that the boys on the Tour call you mellow Jell-o?”

    ” Oui, oui and quite rightly.”

    “Before you go could you tell us a little about your famous tactics of starting every race like a bat out of hell, only to always finish last?”

    “Oui, oui… There are deux choses which I ne comprend pas dans this world, first  le income tax and then pourquoi le cycling est un team sport?”

    “Always a pleasure to talk to one of cycling’s true greats, better get back to the team bus now Steve, smoke a little something to enhance those language skills…”

    My real reason for coming here of course was to try to find out a  bit more about  this Maurin bloke, he had joined our club, but any time soon he could join the family or at worst become the good friend of a best friend. I really had no idea of what was going on here and it did worry me a little, only friend beer soaked bravado would even think of telling you otherwise. I had been wondering for a couple of days just how I was going to broach the subject: “Tell me a little something about yourself old chap” or  ”Good morning, I’d like to talk to you about shirts.” Nothing I could think of sounded quite right and if I practised aloud, quite wrong. I would have to watch and wait.

    Maurin treated us all to another taste of his home-grown cuisine, Taz and Steve had a blistering attack of the munchies, while the host and I sedately enjoyed a bottle of Aigo Ardento as a perfect complement to an excellent lamb tajine with dried figs, apricots and a sweet chestnut couscous.  As Steve began a ham-fisted attempt at clearing the table, the genial one produced a little something he had prepared earlier, a gently smouldering hookah for two, announcing that “the gentlemen would be indulging in a little Nucky Delight, and no, I don’t include you Steve, I have a funny feeling that Mr Rodney here has something he would like to discuss with me.”

    “Too polite to be honest” I was thinking darkly, and also rather hoping that Taz would not offer to do the dishes. She didn’t.

    My moment had come, we were alone at opposing ends of a Steve’s unfinished table, resin rings floating deliciously all around us we sat in silence, when suddenly without really thinking about it, the right words just came to me: “Who the fuck are you?”

    As if I had taken those words straight from his mouth he laughed back, “Rodney, you will know who I am, and I will tell you everything, but first my friend, you are in my house so who the fuck are you?”

    “Touché” I murmured crossly, but it was only a scratch. Alright, if this was how he wanted it, fine.

    “I’m Rodney. Skirvishely by name and  nature, heir abhorrent, and it would be me that asks the questions….. muffin man.”

    Sensing my reluctance and love of the absurd he asked only that I tell him why I was here, in France, with my lovely daughter and the wackjob? I could see no real reason to deny myself the pleasure of telling  a preposterous story and as he was visibly sitting  very comfortably, I began:

    “Not long ago, somewhere in Valencia county, New Mexico I was trying to score a ten bob deal when I came across a pitiful one-armed, half blind amputee deep in honest contemplation, but I asked him anyway. ‘Where can I get some weed in this no horse town?’ He looked me up and down, or at least that was the way I figured it, then he looked me up and down again and said “Don’t look for Mary Janes or sticky greenies in this county as the quality of our law enforcement prohibits the use of them, head east over yonder to Collobrières, France, for there you will find what you are searching for son, the hillsides are full of it. C. Sativa Linn. Those Frenchies say the darnedest things. Lookee lookee yonder!”

    “That’s not quite the same story Miss Pinky your daughter told me the other night”. The chump was smirking at me,” quite chatty she is after a few puffs, oh yes, speaking of which, Steve told me he met you last week for the first time in that restaurant……”

    Infidels! But my lips were sealed, he would not get another word out of me until I had enjoyed his riposte. How dare he call her miss Pinky anyway?

    “OK Rodney, here goes, I was born into a rather well to do family in Marseille…….”

    I looked at him askance hoping to convey the message that I was surprised to hear that there were any such families in that dog end of a town, but he chose to ignore me and went on.

    “My father is French and had been a heart surgeon at the Hôpital La Timone and later a deputé……No not a Bo Diddely deputy sheriff…” He responded to another of my famous funny looks, “A member of parliament if you prefer, and leaning quite heavily to the right I’m afraid to say. As for my mother, well she was definitely English, but I have never been quite sure if she was an actress, an opera singer or just an over dramatic hooker with an annoying singing voice.”

    “Well that was a pretty good start”, I was thinking, “go on Maurin, please…”

    “I did try school for quite a number of years” he continued, lost in thought, as if he were reliving those presumably dreadful moments, ” I really tried, but learning endless lists of words, subjected to three or more tortuous dictations a day, being  frequently reminded of how important it was to vote, not to mention the enforcement of that strictest of republican certitudes; that we were all the same, made me a very unhappy boy. I who was so different from all those retarded French kids, me whose mother tongue was God’s own and of course the little lad who knew only too well of the vital necessity not to vote, particularly in the eighth arrondissement of Marseille.”

    “All three of you then Maurin? More more!”

    “School became ever more tiresome as I began to realise that I was learning nothing at all, apart from a language that I dislike and had very little use for. All subjects you see are  just thinly veiled French  language lessons, even in history or biology tests, all the answers are  already on the paper in the form of pretty pictures, graphs and extracts of text. All you have to do is to re-write or paraphrase or do a cute précis in your best French and you’re done…. You must have wondered Rodney why French people appear to be so stupid? No? Well they aren’t strictly speaking any stupider than anybody else, they just don’t actually know anything. Nothing at all.”

    “This can’t be true!” I interrupted him, genuinely incredulous, “what about all this we hear about their system being the best in the world and the famous bacca something or other Eh?”

    “I’m afraid it is true Rodney, and for them it is the best mass educational system in the whole wide. Why? Because by basing the entire thing on the ability or not to master an impossible language, they neatly divide the populace into three disproportionate categories: the few that can spell really, really well go on to be senior administrators and captains of industry. Those who can write a sentence with only a few grammatical  errors can become lowlier public servants and live in complete security on a very meagre salary, and the rest, the soft underbelly of society, just know their place and are happy to be looked after and bullied by their undoubted betters. There is a hidden fourth group, who are referred to as ‘Beurs’, but they don’t count, they’re put away, out of sight in special places.”

    Not often do I learn anything from a fellow man, even Google himself would be hard pushed to impart this kind of life-changing information, of course it had to be true, like British table manners, the French spout utter bullshit, but do so beautifully. This was priceless; to know that policemen, schoolteachers, mayors of small towns had risen to their noble occupations only on the merit of being able to read write and speak an almost obsolete language but had no other knowledge or understanding? This I could, and surely would, use to my advantage.

    “I finally walked out  of school the day my maths teacher said ‘La mathématique, c’est aussi la redaction’. I went home without even bothering to tell him to sodomize himself with a retractable baton, and informed my mother that she was morally and duty bound to teach me how to be a Brit. Enough of indefinite relative pronouns, genders, conjugation and having my maths papers mutilated for a spelling mistake, enough, being British was my birthright.”

    I am not easily impressed, in fact he hadn’t really told me very much at all, but walking out of school without a final gratuitous insult to your maths teacher was a remarkable achievement in itself. I was warming to the boy and was impatient to find out how his mother had managed to turn an effete little French robot into what he undoubtedly appeared to be today, a proud and loathsome Brit. According to Maurin she had accepted his demand with relish but first she had to make sure he could read and write in English. She began her very first lesson with a study of the inside cover of her passport… Maurin had read it aloud fluently with a tear in his eye:

    “Her Britannic Majesty’s Secretary of State requests and requires in the Name of Her Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance, and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary…”

    Once this formality was over she had outlined what she considered to be a very cunning plan indeed: he was to major in pop music, from Abba to Zappa with a good deal of abba zabba, beatle bones and smoking stones in between. He would study the beautiful game in all its glorious statistical glory, and finally he would be fed on a diet of British sit-coms and soaps and would be expected to re-enact Monty Python sketches, verbatim, every morning at breakfast. As for the minor subjects, he chose suburban property prices, Mediterranean holidays and an option to speak knowledgeably on all things related to cars, paying particular attention to lying about great deals on air conditioning and heated leather upholstery. He voluntarily passed on reading the tabloid newspapers and eating baked beans and spam for breakfast, dinner or tea.

    “So what exactly are you doing here and now in this place? Why did you never go to England, you would have blended in so easily? ” I asked him without really expecting or caring about the reply, the Nucky Balls had left me happy and smug but almost inanimate. He told me that in the end being half French, he actually didn’t give a crap about cars, house prices, holidays, pop music or even football; he just enjoyed a quiet life with all the good things thrown in for free. He loved his freedom and would specifically recommend an ASP219 retractable baton to anybody who tried to tell him how to live his life.

    He did have one last thing to ask me, and as the night was getting on and we had a big day ahead of us.”Just tell me, please Rodney”. As I was slipping out of the smoky heavens of Erewhon into the enticing land of nod I’m quite sure I heard him say, ” The one thing I really don’t understand after all those years of studying sport, pop music and and television, I still don’t get it…….Bob Wilson, anchorman?”

    I had a feeling that this year was going to be a special one, I knew that something out of the ordinary would happen to brighten up my life in this humdrum town. That’s one of the reasons I decided to drink more beer, give fate a helping hand. So far I have managed to lose a highly expensive motorcycle and misplace my teenage daughter. How good does it get? How I wish I could get a message to her grody mother, tell her that Taz was shacked up with two crazy guys over in Saint Tropez and that I was pretty sure they were smoking reefers!

    Steve and Taz, like the spoilt little five year-olds that they are had refused to leave Maurin’s party, she was going to stay put with her precious Nucky Balls and he claimed that the sea air was so invigorating and the hill climbs so much more of a challenge. Good luck to them both if they wanted to spend their days getting stoned and shooting things for food and profit, I at least could concentrate on  my new hobbies of shopping and drinking, although everyone knows that beer ain’t  really drinkin’.

    Dillmart had rekindled my love of beer and given me a completely different vision of how to buy things that I didn’t even know existed, let alone want, and then try to stuff them into my saddlebags. One day I decided to be a little more adventurous and head towards a monstrous Centre commercial on the outskirts of Toulon. My days of going to the local butcher with the desire to purchase a chicken would be well and truly behind me, so instead of him being alternately rude and polite I was sure that all the staff in these places would just be plain ill-mannered and offensive. Wouldn’t you be if you had to work in one of them?

    I am glad that once again I decided to stick with the moped, as parking a car at IKEA is not recommended for short tempered persons such as myself especially when their bladders are screaming as a result of one of the six or so bottles of DiuretiKbourg I had already consumed on the way here. IKEA? Now what the heck could that stand for? I Knew Eamonn Andrews?  I, Kierkegaard, existentialist asshole? Speaking of cheese sandwiches……As I pulled up right outside the building, I was delighted to see that cigarette smoking was finally back in fashion, everybody tentatively patting their pockets in turn searching for a packet, lighting up, relieved and drawing hard; as if the jury had just reached its verdict. What on earth was behind those revolving doors? I had to find out.

    Anyone who has had the occasion to visit one of these stores will know what happened to me inside. Yes I had a pee, obviously. Then I grabbed a grossly inappropriate quantity of little half-cut pencils, began to follow the direction arrows on the floor and soon found myself hopelessly lost and completely disorientated. I tried leaving a trail of pencils behind me as a trackback, but since I was not the only one to do this, it  made matters a little worse.

    This condition went on for some time and deteriorated sevenfold shortly after my second visit to the cafeteria for meatballs beer and Brussels sprouts. I had of course wearied of looking at the crap they had on display and began instead to study my fellow patrons, who like me were wandering about fazed and a little bemused, desperately trying to find the exit without actually showing any signs of panic. It’s fun to be clean, its nice to be neat, for people are happy when they are neat and they are clean.

    Everyone has their own personal methods of stress management, mine is singing.

    My bright idea to follow someone who was actually using the pygmy pencils for their designed purpose of jotting down unlikely names on the scraps of paper I had at once rejected, turned out to be sound. I should be named employee of the month, but I found out later that a fellow called Kevin had already beaten me to it. I stuck close to one of these brave chaps until I was finally led into a vast and resounding  ill-foreboding warehouse. This was the penultimate hurdle before my escape, for between these massive shelves of flat boxes and the check-outs of salvation, lay another little island of fluorescent plastics and miscellaneous objects. I assumed, in my confused state, that I had to buy an arbitary selection before being allowed out. They were mainly things for storing other things in to keep your house tidy and nice, but I just grabbed a pink watering-can, a big yellow firewood bag and a box of candles, paid with my trusty Amex card almost without incident.

    “You must take a blue bag sir, the yellow ones are not for sale” said the smiling youth at the desk

    “But I like yellow and its a present for Steve”.

    “Take a fucking blue one!” said Kevin politely.

    Fearing another microphone incident, I took a fucking blue one and rushed outside for a smoke.

    Next stop, after a bit of mischievous jay-walking; Decathlon, sporting goods for all the family. Now what could this name possibly signify? I hope I won’t have to spend two days in there, hopping, jumping and throwing things around. Here of course there was no smoking, no stress. In fact brightly feathered, out here on the perimeter they were well-groomed, immaculate.

    I wasted a good half an hour  hanging about in the reception area looking for freebies until I finally agreed with a white shirt black pants walkie-talkie guy that I should move on. “What no pencils!” I was ambling down the aerobics department and just about to turn into le stretching, idly daydreaming about living at the bottom of the sea and killing anything that came near me, when my phone rang. My ringtone don’t sound funny I’m sure! It was my favourite daughter, Stoned Taz.

    “Hi dad, I have news.  Lorraine and that slimy bastard Lister are sailing into town at the weekend  and throwing a private party on the yacht. Please say you’ll come daddy. For me!”

    “Sure.”

    “I’d better tell you now, that I suggested fancy-dress, so that they wouldn’t feel too out of place.”

    “Well that was awfully considerate you darling, but you know I loathe dressing up, and where am I going to find an outfit at such short notice?”

    But she had hung up; got me to say I’d come and buggered off, crafty little so and so.

    So here I was more than tipsy, alone in a sportswear mega-store with an invitation to a stupid fancy dress do on a ketch in Saint Tropez. whatever was I going to do?

    Meandering through soccer, cycling and ten pin bowling, I had my second brilliant idea of the day. I know you had all thought of it long ago, but don’t forget the beer. So what was it to be? A fearless huntsman in full camouflage a murderous dagger and a real gun? A gay golf pro, an overweight jockey or a paramedic scuba-diver? I just couldn’t decide, so in the end I started to pick up random ill-assorted articles from all the departments. I say random, but I was really concentrating on items that I knew would be too tight, were made of fake Lycra and most of all, things that had the most bizarre brand names with misspelled garbage written all over them.  What you may ask was the thinking behind this plan, or indeed was there any at all? Yes, Yes, I shall be attending this party as Everyman, the Decathlon Dick Head. hoorah for Rodney!

    I got home late, very late. A punk stopped me on the street and said: ” Have you got a light Mac”?

    I said  ”No, but I’ve got a plastic watering can, a shiny pink leisure suit with ‘OM! Droit au But!’ written all over it and a  blue shopping bag. ‘Ere, you can have it.  Not a patch on the ones you get in Dillmart.”

    I don’t think I  have ever spoken to Steve much before late afternoon. Now I know why. Like all avid newspaper readers, the early morning was his time to entertain people with interesting and little known facts: “Did you know there is only one variety of banana? The Mark Cavendish, did you know…” He even tried it on with the waiter. ” Le saviez-vous ? vingt cinq pour cent des Tellytubbies sont rouge?” Then back to me, a coffee and croissant cocktail dribbling down his chin “Did you know that a big legged woman ain’t got no soul?”  That’s just hearsay Steve I interrupted,  and by the way, did you know that ….” His face lit up, I was playing too! I didn’t have the heart to go on. But  honestly, what an asshole…Six bottles of wine in his bloodstream was like a hot cocoa and gingerbread nightcap to this drug crazed lunatic.

    We woke Taz with a bucket of cold water, ” We need to get your bike back.”

    The directions to “Chez Maurin” sounded simple enough, ” Head back towards Collobrieres, turn left at the sequoia then just keep following the track for about three kilometres, you can’t miss it”. I didn’t expect those forest paths to be a particularly easy ride, but when we finally pulled up outside his humble dwelling, me with Taz strapped on to the luggage rack, my balls felt like that celebrated pair of maracas. Steve was just fine, he had finally received his justly deserved free croissants and had pedalled his mount all the way without any help from the motor on the strength of them.

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    We were here on business, sure, but the beauty of the place left me a little lost for words. The house  was what is known in this part of the world as a cabanon, not quite a house, but more than just a cabin. An ancient two storey stone built affair, carefully restored and  if you were lucky enough for the thing to appear on Napoleonic records  from 1815, even the local authorities tended to say “aw who gives a fuck anyway?”. So it was legal, but not really, a dwelling place but not a house, it didn’t really exist at all. But it did.

    The tiny home was set in quite a sizeable clearing in the otherwise densely overgrown cork forest, here were  happily grazing critters: two donkeys, a handful of sheep and a couple of greedy goats. A huge parasol pine hung immobile over the house and its vast terrace, overlooking, I will spare you a clichéd description of the glistening turquoise Mediterranean below, but honestly, it was stunning. Looking about us, even Steve was touched to see a little basket by the front door containing a tiny fox cub and a pair of cheeky little weasels, completely tame and highly trained to deal with unwanted visitors.

    The place was clearly way off the grid; we had seen no sign of a mailbox, no cables or posts for miles around, just a beautifully crafted stone well and the pleasingly aromatic scent of fig wood burning on a fire within. All this just confirmed my previous notion that we were dealing with a thoroughly extraordinary fellow and Steve’s that he was a hippy douche. Taz had had enough of our admiring procrastination and was about kick down the door with a vicious boot

    “Give me my fucking bike back butt head!”

    She had miscalculated on two counts, one, the door was not actually closed and two, had she not been clad head to toe in thick biker leather, those weasels would surely have ripped her flesh. She escaped with just the humiliation of being picked up and dusted down by the powerful but gentle hands of the handsome thief.

    “Beautiful Zelda from galaxy four suddenly broke down my door” He greeted us in an oddly incongruous south London accent, “welcome my friends”.  We were not friends, this was awkward. He then offered us an aperitif, and noticing the look of utter horror on all our faces, quickly added, “no, not that sort, I meant something that really will give you a great appetite”, pointing as he spoke to a roughly hewn cork platter stacked high with little greeny-brown and misshapen easter eggs.

    “That’s horse-shit you moron!”

    “TAZ!” I reprimanded her as severely as a hungover father can tax his own beautiful and recently mortified daughter.

    “No!” she said almost apologetically,” I mean it really is horse shit, can’t you tell? Does anyone truly believe that I am going to eat that………..” “…..Ass crap”, Maurin intervened, ” nicely dried out and cured, it is almost certainly the finest thing you will have ever smoked”.

    Not at all convinced, but relieved that it was not edibilia, we took our places at a long monastic table as Maurin produced a, well fat-boy is not the word, this thing was seriously obese. With just one toke, Taz knew instantly what was in the joint and precisely where it had come from. Steve and I braced ourselves for a distinctive  and all too familiar foul-mouthed onslaught but were to be disappointed.

    As the big thing did its rounds, the magic followed: Taz was serene, smiley and hardly abrasive and rude at all, Steve was more than ever convinced that even if the world was a mess, his hair was nothing short of perfect. A wondrous substance indeed! Maurin was explaining, as if it were even necessary, how one of his donkeys, Nucky by name, had returned after a three day absence, stoned out of his extremely tiny mind and had not stopped laying these golden nuggets ever since. “I call them Nucky Balls!” Smiling broadly. I forgot to mention that by this time, I myself was feeling absolutely bloody fantastic, as strong as an ox and wiser than the wisest man in Wisconsin. I demanded an immediate and private interview with “Nucky, the funky junky donkey”.

    A little while later we all began to realise just how hungry we were and our genial host responded with the makings of a feast which turned into full blown banquet. Plate after plate of Daube de sanglier, Faisan en croûte, civet de lapin.… A huge jar of tiny goats cheeses in olive oil, freshly picked rocket salad and some odd but truly delicious bright orange mushrooms lightly grilled in his figgy fireplace. All of this washed heartily down with a respectable red from his large personal vat. A triumph Maurin! Really.

    The table talk was a buzz of undecipherable nonsense as we chomped and slurped away into a despicable state of well-being, or sod it, why not? Bien-être.  It was Maurin, once again who inevitably broke the spell: “I want to join your club!” he blurted out most unexpectedly, “you know, the Idiot Bastard Sons of Anarchy, I want in!” Steve looked at him crossly and informed him that “we don’t let just anybody  become a member you know” I said “try that again Steve but without the ‘just’ bit”.

    “Oh dad, don’t be such a rotter, that’s simply unfair, why don’t you try him on one of your famous tests?”

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    “I don’t know what your tests are, but give me a chance won’t you?” Speaking quite seriously now “I think I’m an anarchist because I live by my gun and my wits, I don’t pay any taxes or utility bills and I certainly don’t vote. I may not be a rich bastard like you three, but just like you, I don’t understand a fucking thing when I’m not stoned. Come on daddy, give us a break?”

    How could I refuse?  ”OK. first question, music, you will have ten seconds in which to answer, whereupon you will hear this sound….”

    “Get on with it Dad,” Tazzy all excited.

    “Right, which band had a 1970 hit with Up Yours!”?

    “The Edgar Broughton Band sir” He answered without hesitation to a massive round of applause from all of us.

    “Let’s move on quickly to the practical part, any good at riding mopeds?”

    Maurin’s field performance was a delight to behold, his mastery of the two-wheeled two-stroke defied  both belief and gravity, how could any man chase sheep through a stony field, blindfold and rolling a fresh joint at the same time? I think  this was the defining moment in their whirlwind romance, it was at this point that Steve finally began to fall in love with him.

    He was in, of course he was, but just one last question: “how are you at prank phone calls?”

    This was the icing on the cake. As long as someone, preferably Taz could show him how to use a ‘phone, he could imitate just about anybody from Nicholas Sarkozy to Eric Cantona, taking in any of those dickhead radio and TV presenters on the way, “if that’s the kind of thing you are looking for”?

    Before I gave him the final nod, I asked Steve if he had any questions he would care to add. To my surprise the lovestruck wretch said that my musical question had been ridiculously easy and that anyway, it wasn’t fair because The Broughtons were my favourite band. Could he try him out on his own?

    “Maurin” said Steve gravely, “which band had a minor 1967 hit with the song ”Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine”

    ” Ladies and gentlemen I’d like you to give a big hand to Mr. Country Joe and the Fish!”

    Steve made a new year’s resolution too, not quite as infallible as my own and not quite a new year’s resolution either, more like something he should have done years ago: spend his wife’s cash. He invited me and daughter Taz to join him at his least favourite and most exclupensive restaurant in Saint Tropez: La Vieille Arnaque. “With alacrity, if not with pleasure” I replied blithely, leaping immediately onto my moped, “Ready when you are Bob.”

    Steve agreed on the moped way even though he had planned on taking the pink Hummer, not just because we were going to saint Trop, but  ”Lest we should hit upon a huge flock of sheep on the way”. Yes he did mean hit upon, sick bastard, but that’s Steve for you. He has seen the needle and the damage done is sadly, irreparable.

    It was the middle of the afternoon by my KDE clock set to seventy-five per cent fuzziness, so we reckoned that if Taz left on her Harley at early evening, we should all meet up at the restaurant at eight o’ clock sharp. We did.

    A word here about Steve’s wife – whom I shall Always think of as Tammy – may be of interest. She is currently wintering in California, as just the thought of wearing a woolly jumper sends a chill all the way down to her butt. Woolly bully. Her one mediocre album from the late seventies “It Ain’t Necessarily Titties And Beer” has assured her a totally disproportionate and steady income ever since. Steve hates the bitch, but being British, all I can say is that I’m not frightfully fond of you either darling.

    As we entered the crowded restaurant the diners fell instantly silent, probably due to Taz in her skin-tight let’s talk about leather outfit accompanied by two middle-aged weirdos , but no, it was in Steve’s honour. The hush turned into a rustle of tasteful applause with a few hoorahs and bravos added to emphasize the approval.

    I always manage to forget that Steve is what is commonly known as a “Genius in France”, that is, a much mocked and derided figure of fun in his homeland, yet nothing short of a hero in the land of cheese and biscuits. In his heyday Steve had been a wildly unsuccessful professional bicycle rider whose exploits in the Tour de France in the eighties had gone largely unnoticed in the rest of the world but the French had placed him high on a pedestal, all the better to admire his magnificent calves. Think on’t Johnny Drama.

    I quickly realised that Steve’s real motive for coming out on the town tonight was to cheer himself up. Not only had he been a little under the weather over the holidays, but ” I haven’t seen a fellow American since the last time I cut my hair”,  he lamented pathetically as we were at table expecting a waiter to appear and flatter us.

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    Taz was no better, the sour puss, but at least her reasons were more justified. A little sad because her long term boyfriend, Lister had upped and betrothed his good-self to some slag called Lozzi  whilst cruising on his monster yacht, The Turpitude, somewhere in the Algarve. Totally postal about the acts of vandalism and crass criminality which had been committed on our precious cannabis plantation a couple of days previously. Someone or something had completely ground-zeroed the place and she now had the daunting prospect of a life without weed for the dimly foreseeable future. I knew how she felt.

    We had already decided on our order from the neatly scrawled bistrot chalkboard: Steve would have the woozy numbat with brisures of crystal meth. I would opt for the saber-toothed squirrel with candied lemon and cork oak acorns. Taz still in the dumps would just have “a packet of crisps and a pint of what Beckham over there is drinking”.

    When Patrick, our waiter for the evening did come to take our order and be pleasing, he produced a crocodile tear as I mentioned the squirrel, “It’s the last one sir!” he sobbed. “Fine by me” I returned casually. “I mean the very last one in existence Monsieur” “Even better”, I quipped, “the squirrelling must go on and I  will be mentioned in school text books.” I knew he was just kidding, who doesn’t know that  saber-toothed squirrel is the codename for the Linux kernel 3.2-rc1?

    As for the drinks, Taz got her pint of Pur Absolut crap and Steve and I were to share a dozen bottles of Chateau Sainte Anne de la Regurgitation, this is the only place in the world that sells it and was the reason behind choosing the mopeds to get here, and back!

    I should mention here that as the food arrived, Steve committed the most unthinkable and loutish faux-pas by requesting tomato ketchup, now don’t expect a repetition of a similar scene in the Naked Lunch, this is France remember; no the waiter complied with a grin. It was I in fact  who was trembling, with my fingers crossed under the table, ” please lawdi let it be the 57 varieties variety and not a home made apology made with real organic tomatoes and balsamic bleeding vinegar”.

    All was going down nicely, my little treetop flyer was exquisite, Steve’s favourite condiment had passed muster and even Taz was a bit more chatty. Emerging slowly from her own dystopian universe, which she had named “Jeans North”, she was imploring me to tell the story about spotting Bono moonlighting in that awful cheapskate supermarket, “Please daddy, again! Again! Just one more time, Pleeeese”

    tazPleese!

    This peaceful scene of amicable self-indulgence was violently interrupted when the restaurant doors crashed open and some guy walks in with a monstrous wild boar slung across his shoulders. He stood there staring disdainfully at us all and left the door wide open behind him. He was requested, rather politely I thought to “fermez la porte!”, but he just stood there looking more disgusted than ever. As if it were perfectly normal for a man to be standing with a 200 pound pig round his neck but totally unacceptable to enter a room without saying bonjour and closing the door, the demands for him to do so continued unabated.

    Finally the man spoke: “This place is so full of bullshit, I won’t close the door until you’ve all had a blast of clean sea air. ” He was staring at the chalkboard and for a moment I thought he was going to spit on it, but he just shook his head sadly and dropped the hog noisily to the ground.

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    Taz was quite at the end of her tether “Shut the fucking door, Retard!”

    To which he replied, with maybe just a hint of sarcasm: “Well if I’d known that The Idiot Bastard Sons of Anarchy were here, why, I would have closed it long ago.” Our fame was spreading then?

    The man was gone leaving all at our table to believe that this brief interlude had been a kind of dream, not to say hallucination. “What an extraordinary fellow”, I thought and said at the same time, “hippy douche” Steve agreed laconically, Taz said he reminded her of a sheep on meth. If this was all in our imaginations though, why was it taking six grown men to drag that huge slobbering beast into the back kitchens?

    The soiree was drawing to a hazy conclusion, it was time for getting drunk and kick starting mopeds, but we were all out of wine. It did end though on a more cheerful note, the number of zeros on the bill were way in excess of our wildest attempts at thinking up numbers and doubling them, even the ketchup had reached three figures. It was a happy Steve then that handed over Tammy’s charge card to the beaming waiter.

    When one doorway to happiness opens another one slams in your face, Patrick had  surreptitiously slipped a scrap of paper to Taz  with a handwritten message from the dead pig guy:

    “If you want your bike back, come to my place in the morning, ask anyone for Chez Maurin………”

    New year, new year’s resolution: drink more beer. Less of this nansy pansy, soul-destroying tea and coffee gut-rot, more manliness, more wholesome beer. A year or two back, one chilly January morning I vowed to give up alcohol completely. I am now sure this must have been the origin of the French expression “Un quart d’heure difficile”. This year it is going to be different, Mr Apollo himself could not even hope to bend my iron will.

    It was Plato  I think, who said “It was a wise man who invented beer.”  Wise indeed, but also a great leveler. Even the stinkiest, richest bastard can only drink thirty or so pints a day, so despite his wealth, he really is no better off than me, which would be pretty difficult anyway, given the extent of my own personal fortune.

    Regrettably, I myself am not a wise man, I have actually no idea where I should go to buy beer, or anything else for that matter; I do however have a couple of smart friends who pop into my brain from time to time. Little BSD, the Beer Swilling Devil would be a good chap to ask, faithful server  and a cute little bugger in those horrid green sneakers,  very reliable and comes with excellent documentation too. “Go to Lidl my friend, there you will find a splendid range of quality lagers, continental pilsners and much other beery goodness, all at very reasonable prices. Go, go now and bring me back a case of whatever is on special…”

    Lidl! Screams the shiny smug unstable penguin that has installed himself uncomfortably on my laptop, Lidl?*#. The vilest place in the observable universe! Destroyers of small business and violators of human dignity, they will  take over our world  and dismantle it piece by piece. Don’t go my friend. Go instead to your nearest wine cooperative while there still is one, support local business and agriculture, buy some cheap wine and feel better about yourself.

    “Thanks Tux but beer is what I need. Lidl it is.”

    ” OK, but don’t touch the Fink Brau. Shame in a bottle, trust me Rodney.”

    I would never have thought that a town as posh as Sainte Maxime would host one of these reputedly unpleasant establishments, but they do, wait a minute, there’s one in Cogolin too, that’s a bit closer, these places are everywhere. So off I go, Lidl bound, over the hills and not so far away.

    Well I found the place alright, that was the easy part, as I dropped in from Grimaud there was the filthy great sign, LIDL! There I found hordes of people milling around pushing and pulling on pram like things with tiny, tiny wheels, some piled high with groceries, some completely empty. I found this a little disturbing, a bit eery, why do people act this way? I hung around anyway to study them, look for a pattern, some logic, and then I finally worked it out. They go in one door with an empty barrow, then appear a bit later through an adjacent one with the darned thing full, looked like a lot of fun.

    I then spotted a sort of makeshift shelter with lots of these wheely things all crushed together so I wandered over to grab one for myself. Crikey! They’re all locked up, WTF?  I stood there forlorn, scratching my head, that’s what perplexed people do, right?  Then out of nowhere, a sweet and very genteel sad-eyed lady took pity on me and firmly pressed a Euro coin in my hand saying  “Allez mon vieux, payez-vous quelques bieres avec ca!” How on earth had she got wind of my mission?

    I was soon in the shop with my own personal perambulator, slip the coin in the slot and voila! How can they sell them so cheaply?

    I tried to focus, I was looking for beer, the place was busy, hard to navigate. These trolley things may be dirt cheap but that’s no reason to abandon them, half full in the middle of the aisles. I seemed to be going round in circles, up and down, round and round, looking here, looking there, and then I was struck by a moment of pure happiness and  blinding revelation, after all these years of wondering, at last. This was a supermarket and I was all lost in it. Why had the song made no sense to me before?

    I found the beer in the end. I just couldn’t believe my eyes as they darted between cans of Larsullrichbrau and huge bottles of Rammestein before they settled  finally on a stack of genuine English Old Scrotum Ale, two for the price of one! Free beer! Just wait till I get to tell the sanctimonious little penguin about this!  Sod the Reinheitsgebot  I myself would be entirely made up of water, malted barley and hopfen extract before the year was out. So I duly began to load my wheeliebarrow with just as many bottles that would fit without breakage, I got to 359 and had to stop, I could always come back the next day…

    I teetered off triumphant towards the out door. Of course I had every intention of paying for them, how dare any of you think otherwise? I just wasn’t quite sure of the procedure, as I’ve said before, my unwisdom in these matters are pearls. Then I spotted the queues ahead of me barring the way to the exit. So this is how it’s done, the goods you have selected pass along a sort of conveyor belt until they are picked up by a blue-uniformed inmate who presents them to a primitive scanning device which then emits a high-frequency and annoying error message bleep. I could hardly wait for my turn.

    When I did finally get on more intimate terms with Amandine, the angel in blue, she gave me what is possibly the dirtiest look I have ever encountered and said in a dreary French monotone: ” Please have the goodness to place all the items in your ‘caddy’ on the belt”

    “No” I said pleasantly, handing her a selection of credit cards. “you count . There are 359 of them, word of a gent.”

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    Nick something! How can someone called Amandine be such a hard faced bitch? I tried again to reason with her and softly recited Joe Strummer’s touching lyrics, looking for sympathy. ” There was a wall back in the suburbs, over which I never could see”. She was unmoved, uncomprehending and I don’t know if this is appropriate for a serving lass, but here goes, Intransigent. ” Please have the goodness to place all the items in your ‘caddy’ on the belt or I will be obliged to call the overseer”

    I remained calm and bashful, explaining that the green thing in my hand was an American Express card and that she was supposed to say “That will do nicely Sir”.

    In response to my perceived dumbness, she grabbed a handy microphone and before I knew it she was braying “Monsieur Warwick Hunt is required at check-out three, Monsieur Warwick Hunt!”.

    Within seconds a mean looking fat guy in over tight green pants and a crumpled white shirt was easing himself through the crowds in my direction. For a moment I was convinced it was Peter Griffin, puffing and panting as he approached. Imagine my surprise and dismay when I realised it wasn’t Griffin at all, it was Bono! It was, it was really him, slightly plumper than I remembered, but definitely Bono, not word of a lie. When he saw me  his face lit up with a brilliant smile.

    “Quel honneur! Monsieur X”, he proclaimed in his inimitable where the fuck do I come from brogue. “I find you here in our own humble, err,” looking oddly at my booty….. “Beer Depot.”  ”The beers are on me!” he boomed in obvious delight, for all the world as if he was the Milky Bar Kid.

     After all these years in hiding, all these years of anonymous gallivanting, there had  finally been a sighting; Bono spotted me in a Lidl! Can you believe that!?

    I was off, as fast as my little legs and the laden caddy would let me, resolving to start growing a long shaggy beard the moment I got home.

    Just as the automatic doors slipped open, I turned to take one last look. Did I shave my legs for this?  Then Bono, grinning stupidly said “I see you have the same problem with your trousers as I do”. This I took to mean, I won’t tell on you if you keep mum about me.” So it definitely was Bono then, see!

    Here’s a little sketch I did to while away the time waiting for the beard to grow, solid proof I think, just in case there are still any doubters out there.

    Jad and I get together once a year to brainstorm, we bump into each other more or less every day, but in  early October a sub-committe of  the Idiot Bastard Sons of Anarchy, the LAPD, has serious work to do. Rodney is inevitably absent, his new friend Maurad has returned from Morocco and they are off on their mobylettes to visit Le Luc en Provence, a stunningly beautiful ride over the Maures mountains in the glorious autumn sunshine. At the lofty summit of Notre Dame des Anges they will stop briefly to admire the panoramic views before dropping down to the quite different landscape on the other side. They have gone I believe to stock up on Lidl carrier bags, known for their legendary reliability and outstanding authenticity when stuffed with firewood and tied on the back of a moped. Rodney also believes that these things are actually a statement: “Here is both an unmitigated cheapskate and a man unable or unwilling to distinguish between good and evil.” Rodney in a nutshell. Not only do they sell these exceedingly good bags, they also do very cheap beer.

    Maurad's MountainsMaurad's Mountains

    Knowing my two friends they will be stocking up on that too and drinking one or two on the way home in Pierrefeu-du-var. I know they will be doing this, because the consumption of alcohol in public places has recently been outlawed in this town. Infantile Rodney provocation, sure, but it would be funny to see how the dumb Gendarmes will deal with a middle aged American and an Arabian seed merchant in flagrante delicto.  Fine work Rodney.

    Back to the LAPD, the Law-Abiding Pranks Department. The three of us have been trying to nuke the annual Chestnut Festival for about five years now, without notable success, a comedy of stupid errors in fact. Like the year we decided to Rick Roll the whole town from a secret rooftop location; the crowds just loved it, as it totally drowned out the official out of tune quartet with an outstanding repertoire of monotony. Utter failure.

    Rick RollRick Roll

    Another time, Rodney had the wickedly cunning idea of a bomb scare, which had he been successful would have caused absolute havoc. Unfortunately he elected to make the call himself, only he spoke in English with a totally unconvincing Irish accent; his call was of course dismissed. With hindsight, maybe a good thing, as it could very easily have backfired on us, the prank I mean, not the bomb, because of course it was a hoax. Please tell me it was a hoax Rodders.

    There have been countless other mischievous attempts to disrupt and disturb this annual outrage and petty crime against humanity; dropping stink bombs, redesigning the traffic system by heaving the no-parking signs and barriers into the river, doing rain dances, all to no, or very little avail.

    The only ruse that we all assume did succeed, does not fulfill all the requirements of a practical joke and so does not count. My wife has pragmatically adopted the – if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em –  approach. She has a stand where she sells her very own and quite appalling chestnut  flavored  spread with a label that would suggest that it is better tasting and much better for you than Nutella itself. The joke is that I have been lacing her mixture for some years now with a very potent dose of homegrown marijuana, but since nobody yet has opened the jar and tucked in immediately- she does not supply plastic spoons, bless her – I have never enjoyed the pleasure of witnessing their discomfort.

    This year it is going to be different. From the dubious comfort of Rodney’s cellar we will prepare an illustrated news story about the day the good people of Collobrieres finally rebelled and went on a burning, breaking and robbing rampage on the eve of the festival’s sickening opening ceremony. Jad would take care of the writing part, being half French he has a little understanding of the vagaries of spelling and grammar. Rod’s daughter would take care of the photoshopping, for she – unbeknownst to her father is herself no stranger to the dual boot –  only she goes with Fedora and TinyXP, with a fully functional  copy of CS5 extended  courtesy of TPB. What’s more she knows how to use it. Yet another point for home-schooling.

    Totally confident that this year’s scheme  would finally be a winner, because we would post our work on as many news hungry French sites as we could, on a Sunday too, so they wouldn’t be able to verify it, Jad and settled I down for a few more self satisfied drinks.

    My normally untroubled mind has been a little less so since Jad finally took his leave. Why on earth did he ask to borrow my stetson and what use could he possibly have for a fake mustache from the props box…………………?