Paging the layabouts

When you've got their legs on the mantelpiece, and tongue down their
throat, who's counting?

 

Quite. I've even walked round a park holding hands with an Iranian lad
(in Mashad). When in Rome and all that.

 

Christ on a bike, I never knew there were so many pinkie-outers here.

 

Grope their arse - they love it.

 

Shagging I could cope with, but kissing is just... *yuck*.

Well quite.

And it's often four for close friends or family anyway.

Ah. So we agree on that then.

 

Bollocks do they. Oh, you're talking about British kisses?

 

Heh.

 

Tongues and all, right?

As Cab says, no, not at all.

 

In communiqué

It was certainly a shock to the wallet having to replace the
fridge/freezer at 'the chateau' last trip. The ancient Zanussi from
father's old place finally cried enough. Too big an item to buy here and
take across.

The return journey load of plonk and coffee doesn't help finance the
fuel for the run to the degree it used to.
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<looks at half a garage full of machinery to take on the next trip>

pah!

Unfortunately there's very little that's cheaper in France at the
moment. We've even taken to carting a load of food shopping over now for
when we are there. Cider, sausages, cheese and rillettes are the main
things we bring back. Diesel's still just a smidgen cheaper.

 

Great innit. Well for me at any rate.

I tend to purchase books in the UK when I get a chance (especially techie
books) for exactly this reason.

I never knew about the clothes though, for nippers. Makes sense to me now.

 

I remember Bonwick saying that on the last French run, it was the first time
he wanted to go back empty across the channel.

It's still pricey over here. And in my recent experience in Italy, it's
roughly the same as France. Portugal, CZ and Spain are significantly different.

 

It's a bit further than Normandy for us! TBF, I could have lashed one to
the trailer and then bought the Yamaha back, but we needed on quickly
for tenants.

Indeed. I didn't choose the right time to go back to petrol power. We
don't take much food, other than those items which you just can't get
locally. Though TBF you can even get parsnips in Casino now!

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France does indeed ban when it suits it:

Suicide mode d'emploi (banned in the 1980s).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments

Too easy.

 

But in America, it *is* the normal thing to do (assuming you're not in
business or dress mode). Long socks pulled up as high as they go, at
that.

I refused to join in.

 

Well played.

 

Got a letter a couple of years ago from C&E saying that they had
confiscated the cigarettes posted from Belgium - if it happened again,
they would instigate criminal proceedings ...

 

pillow muncher, eh?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, geoff

How odd!

I thought we were part of a Common Market...

 

Got a letter a couple of years ago from C&E saying that they had
confiscated the cigarettes posted from Belgium - if it happened again,
they would instigate criminal proceedings ...

You are, you can buy and sell as much as you like, as long as you take
care of the local excise requirements.