Saturday 19 September 2015

ITS A FAIR COP ( but his was dark brown )


I  woke this morning refreshed & with the sun shining on Leftie a me. After me Special K and a peach I set sail for my present resting place alongside a river on a quiet Aire. The journey was quite eventful. Sue & I had our first fall out of the trip. I gave her to cordinates pressed go & she proceeded to send be down all the back roads she knew. As the journey went on she found better roads so Before too long we were engaged in our usua banter. Her " Turn round when possible " me " Well your the one that told me to turn right here you ARSE " as I looked for a place to turn a police bike, with blues & two's flew past going the other way. Thinking that's trouble for somebody I duly turned around I drove back to the confusing junction to see two police man speaking to the driver of a car at the side of the road. Being the friendly person I am I nodded and smiled as I passed doing my bit for good          English /French accord. 
            Now you may associate sunflowers with joy and sunshine but I can tell you it doesn't end that way, they eventally turn in to very sad old flowers, bent over heads drooped & not following the sun as they did in their youth no yellow flowers surrounding little black faces. Look away now if you want to remember the sun flower growing competitions of your school days :-

Fields & fields of them, so remember their sacrifice next time you buy A bottle of sunflower oil.
 One the best sights of the day, as I drove over the brow of a hill I'd been slowly climbing for about half an hour was my first glance of the Pyrenees away in the distance. Reminded me the Hobbit looking out over the shire. This however was shortly followed by the worst site of the day. Glancing in my drivers mirror I saw my two police motorbikes friends directly behind me with blue lights. I slowed slightly & moved as far as I could to the right to let them  pass. Unfortunately they didn't want to pass they wanted me to stop. One rode along side and indicated he wanted me to pull in. In panic mode I pulled in wondering, what offence I had committed. You hear about people being pulled over and given on the spot fine in cash for whatever . As I came to a stop the police man drew level and pointed down at the left side of Leftie. I look out and saw that one of the outside lockers had slipped it's catch and was gently waving about as I'd been driving along. The police man indicated I should lock it touched his helmet and drove of down the road with his partner. As pulled into the layby to lock the offending catch I decided I needed toilet stop. I'm now parked at the Aire I mentioned at the beginning of this post tonight I'm making Boufe Bourgignon.( Well That's how they spell it in this bit of France ) Cause I can. Sitting here now listening to smooth classics with a cheeky glass of red and a wonderful smell from the stove top. Until tomorrow.🚐🍷


1 comment:

  1. I have found the best way to use the sat nav is to put in my destination have s quick looks turn off the sound then follow the map. It is very good for finding aires but defiantly not to be trusted especially in France.

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