Nervous Wait

Posted on August 14, 2008

Awoke this morning after a surreal dream involving a collapsed clothes horse, a broken down car and another deluge of rain..................................Oh no................ it wasn't a nightmare ............this was very real.After a great holiday the last couple of days have been something of a farce. My credit card has been stopped as I made my last payment to a card that I had reported lost/stolen and had been rejected (no one told me ...

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Posted on August 13, 2008

We went off to Biarritz today and had a brilliant time watching the waves crash in and the sun shone once again, then after a holiday without incident disaster struck. We had just filled up with petrol when all of a sudden…………………….Bang!!! Something exploded under the car. A French guy ran hysterically in to the distance shouting fumer! fumer! barging out of the way any women and children obstructing him!! We dashed out of the car ...

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A Trip To St Jean Pied Du Port

Posted on August 13, 2008

I did my second large batch of hand washing last night, once again it rained overnight, an once again the clothes horse collapsed in the mud rendering my hard work meaningless. If this clothes horse was a real horse, it would fall at the first fence every time before someone took mercy on it and shot it in the paddock. Being a damp start to the morning we decided to set off to the quaint town of St Jean Pied Du Port about 30 miles away inland on ...

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Cat Rape And A Trip To San Sebastian

Posted on August 11, 2008

Last night when I was checking my hotmail I was alarmed to see that I had received an email titled EXTREME CAT RAPE! A number of things concerned me regarding this email. Firstly I have only ever registered my email address to two websites, Dating Direct (sad I know) and The Times Fantasy Football League. So unless Dating Direct condones the date rape of a cat, or The Times Fantasy League has a little box saying “Please tick here if you do not ...

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Sunshine and ETA Bombs

Posted on August 10, 2008

Friday night saw us wave goodbye to our friends Charlotte, Tom, Lisa and Claire from Stratford, basically leaving us as just about the only non Irish group left on the whole campsite, I am getting concerned they might start digging it up and turning it in to a car park!It appears that Michael (Oim jist an simple Oirish businessman troying to dae the working man a good deal) O’Leary, owner of Ryanair, has been doing something of a deal on ...

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