Salut/Hi Bill Spohn,
le/on 03 Sep 2004 15:56:12 GMT, tu disais/you said:-
Aha!! I've gotta poem for you, written by a very good friend of mine who lives there.
I include his gloss, which gives a little local colour!
||... In Pimpernel style, while musing on the bong - where better? - at the appropriate hour this morning. || Initially, I concocted it in the singular, in the light of those increasing number of occasions || when I'd gone downstairs to fetch something, got absorbed in something else, and come back upstairs || having completely forgotten the first object. || But then I decided that it could go even more justifiably in the plural, applied to ||those elderly, wide-bottomed tourists who are currently serving to double the time of all my journeys ||on foot through the village, however short. || || They pooter here, they pooter there, || Vieux doudous pooter everywhere... || Are they still with us || Or down in the dell? || Only the Lord Above could tell.
And Michael (my friend) is the person who introduced me to Luc de Conti and his wines! To drag this sort of back on topic.