Virtual cruise Lyon to Avignon and Arles

This has made me laugh. My DH used to say, when in France, you never know whether to swallow it or stick it up your bum.

As always, lowering the tone one post at a time. No educational content about Arses/Arles whatsoever. Delete as appropriate.

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Educational content alert!
But only because Cap’n Pugwash seems to have done what my Dad seemed to specialise in when we were on holiday - taken us somewhere on early closing day
So a map for educational purposes and a lovely pic of some of the white horses of the Camargue.
(And don’t tell me these are greys , we’re in foreign, right?)

Caravan No they’re not called Arses they are called horses ?

Arses for courses?

A poem to amuse your Bouches
While we are moored in Arles
A land where artists came to roost
To paint and drink and parle

Van Gogh painted potatoes
While Gauguin tried the bars
Picasso gave us jokers wild
Then Vincent turned to stars

We’d like to go to see them
Our plans were quite clear-cut
Buy Maw’s dad planned the day
And seems that everything is shut!

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And pics to go with.

The line

Van Gogh painted potatoes

How about

Van Gogh painted pommes-de-terre

Doodle

Caravan No they’re not called Arses they are called horses ?

That will be my Norfolk peasant ancestry seeping through Doodle The language gendarmes will be here in a minute.

I hope you've all got a few sous left and can have a whip round to pay my bail. Or did it all go on Chateauneuf? Can we send Brünnhilde to get some money back on the casks?

Ignoring interruptions, I make no excuse for this link
-j’adore les chevaux, j’adore la langue française - surtout parlée- et le paysage est étonnant

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As well as the magnificient horses and those beautiful reflections in the water what struck me was the sentence:

Communication is based on respect.

So true.

Kevin Beresford, whose hobby is photographing roundabouts in Redditch, claims to be the dullest man in Britain and is a member of the Dull Men's Club.

For sheer excitement, it's been extremely hard to find something to top this week's early evening talks on cement and paint stripping.

However, Kevin has come up trumps by alerting me to the Festival of Duck Tape which is currently taking place in Arles. It's why they've had to shut everything else. Sheer weight of numbers. The hotels are bursting at the seams with dull men talking sticky. By great good fortune, DMC member Rick Bland is available to talk to us this evening. I'm sure you will have lots of questions. As always, orderly queue for 18:00 start.

Whoulda thunk it?
A Dull Men’s Club!
He says he does 10 calendars a year getting inspiration from everyday life.

My Benches of Redditch calendar became my second biggest seller last year, at 2,000 copies. The most popular calendar that year was The Wonderful World of Jack Grealish’s Calves 2022. As an Aston Villa fan, I made it as an act of revenge when he was sold to Manchester City, but a lot of people bought it for their girlfriends.

I remember Benches of Redditch well but the other calendar he mentions sounds unmissable too.

Standing room only if we don’t get there well ahead of time! I’m thinking of my questions as I write. I hope he allows plenty of time…

Do you reckon we’ll know anybody there? (Heaven forfend!)

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There's a guy in America, Pete Warburton, was produces Van Gogh paintings in duck tape. I kid you not.

who not was

Is the Dull Men’s Club affiliated to Nutters Anonymous by any chance? Maybe I should add that to my already long list of questions.

PENDANT ALERT!

I always thought it was duct tape?
Let me Google it.

Really quite astonishing. How did you know that Joseanne?

I found this. One of life's quirkly coincidences.

You're right. I just went with the flow.
Anyway, as it's fishy Friday how sbout sea bass stuffed with herbs afterwards for dinner 20.30.

ixion

*PENDANT ALERT!*

I always thought it was duct tape?
Let me Google it.

It is ixion but one of those products where the brand name has become synonymous. Like Hoover, I suppose.

Or Duct a l’orange ?

Really quite astonishing. How did you know thatJoseanne?
I'm full of useful useless information. It gets me into trouble on GN domestics!

Sometimes not domestic (too much time slaving in the galley!)