Would you like a bacon or tofu sandwich?

From time to time you may have noticed that I have a little rant and express a little prejudice, well here's some more to be going on with.

Why do all the men that wear hats in cars drive slowly? Sometimes they also have beards. This afternoon this new car was being driven on a clear open country road at about 60 kph (40mph) and the male driver, with a beard, was wearing the most enormous wide brimmed panama style hat. The first question that comes to mind is, WHY THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU DRIVING SO SLOWLY? There are lots of lunatic French drivers who will get impatient and overtake you on a blind bend. THINK. The second question that comes to mind is, 'is he expecting to get wet in his car?' because for bloody sure it wasn't going to protect him from the sun because, amongst other things, there had been no sun all day. It could have been worse, he could also have been wearing sunglasses! I could go on. In fact I will. Look I understand that I'm going to offend somebody here, but hey, that's life. It could be worse, you could have a hat, beard, be driving slowly and be wearing glasses, but that wouldn't be as bad as wearing a hat, beard, glasses, shorts, Jesus sandals AND SOCKS, and driving at a ridiculously slow speed on the open road. Hmmmm, that feels better. (No UN or diplomatic corp for you my son - Ed.

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There I am watching CBeebies, children's television for the under 5's and over 50's, with Maisie our granddaughter, when I nearly choked on my cornflakes. It was a programme about cooking, but instead of using meat they used tofu, and even went on to describe how it is made. This programme was obviously aimed at the thousands of 3 year olds who insist on a meat free diet and who are looking for alternatives. Instead of being urged to eat something natural, that man has eaten throughout the ages, they were being encouraged to eat an artificially produced, synthetic food (like cornflakes - Ed.). Smart and to my mind a very insidious use of children's television, by some pinko, bearded, vegetarian, female (oh all right he could be male, in which case he'd be wearing Jesus sandals and socks as well) television producer. Dangerous! (It's you that's dangerous - Ed.)

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Over to Montpellier to take our visitors to the airport. A quick turn round and back to collapse until it was time to go over to Jill and Harry for dinner. As usual the food is very good and Jan has developed a bit of an appetite, which is always useful when you are out for dinner.