'The font' has spent the early part of the morning on the phone to the pool man. After yesterdays altercation with the saintly Madame Bay he is still far from happy but has agreed to come back to clean the pool , remove the frogs and return the pool cover. 10/10 for Swedish diplomatic skills.On Radio nostalgie this morning 'the font' caught snippets of a Jimmy Dean obituary. From somewhere deep, deep in the psyche came the memory of a song I must last have heard when I was five or six - Bid Bad John or was it Big Bad Tom ? Some saccharine ballad about a coalminer holding up the collapsing roof of a mine to let his colleagues escape. Over the breakfast croissant 'the font' looked bemused as I attempted to sing it. Does anyone else remember the song ? The final tear jerking basso profundo line went something along the lines of 'at the bottom of the mine lies a big man - Big Bad John / Tom'.
It's 'the fonts' birthday so we're off into the mountains for a celebratory dinner.I'm told the place has a wonderful wine list. Tomorrows post may therefore be a little later than usual. The chef will be preparing chicken and rice for Wilf.
