I don’t often complain but in this case I must make a rare exception. Am I not allowed a holiday from my regular ranting column? Am I not to be granted a few weeks of the year to rest? Apparent...
Normally I am slow to anger, but I am sick of cicadas. Unrequested noise makes me angry. The first minute or so of their irritating scraping can be quite evocative of the spirit of the south of Franc...
Normally, I am slow to anger, it being an almost alien concept to me, but computers make me angry. Firstly, they always decide to break down just when you need them most, so you talk to your local co...
I don’t usually complain a lot, but what is it with the Saturday Daily Telegraph? It is now in black and white, when it was recently in colour, has a lot fewer pages, and still costs the outrag...
Regular readers of this column will know that I am slow to anger, in fact it is very hard to rile me, but I have heard that all of us who live in France will shortly be invited to defecate into bags....
I hardly ever complain, it is something that does not come naturally to me, but, those trousers that are neither shorts nor long trousers irritate me. I went to lunch last week at Lou Fassum in Plasc...
According to a recent study from Canada carried out at the University of Columbia, it is a fact that women are more likely to be attracted to men with grumpy expressions. If you have ever seen the pi...
I am not one to get angry very often, usually every Monday, but I have a gps system in my car and it is so useless it makes me really angry. First of all, when you want to feed in a road you are tryi...
What is it with Italians? Now I am not usually known for being grumpy but I went to Italy last week to the market in Ventimiglia. God I am getting angry just thinking about it. I parked my car in a s...
Now, my regular readers of this column will know that I am not a complainer by nature, but my wife, also sometimes known as that nice lady decorator in my daily blog about a day in the lives of the i...
Not again! Another royal wedding? this time in Monaco. What is going on in the world, why is everyone trying to get married? Do they not know it will end in tears? Did you know that scientists have d...
I am not usually regarded as a complainer, but even my formation of the William And Kate’s Royal Wedding Avoidance Group Wedding, WANKROYWAG for short, ended up with one member, me. It makes me...
I don’t like to complain but I am not looking forward to next Friday. What is wrong with the world that the whole of the UK will stop to watch a balding minor royal marry the daughter of a form...
I am not one to complain, but why is it when you go to a cash machine when your are in a rush, that little old lady gets there first? I saw her as I was walking across the car park area in Valbonne l...
Now I love birdsong, but I have a complaint to make. As you know my normal propensity is never to complain about anything, but why do those birds have to start singing at five o clock in the morning?...
I have a complaint to make, which as you probably know by now is unusual for me in itself. In case you had not noticed, the French have no idea how to use round-abouts properly. French driving standa...
I am not usually known as a complainer, but just when I was about to welcome the arrival of better weather, we have the arrival of tourists. They say it is the Tourist Season”, so I want to kno...
I am not a vindictive man, but every car driver in the south of France will have returned to their car at some stage to find a dent or a dink which was not there when they left. Given my normal placi...
Anger management courses make me angry. I am the most placid man you could ever meet, and as regular readers will know, very few things can permeate my aura of calm acceptance of all the little irrit...
Followers of this column will already be aware of my placid, slow to anger countenance, so it was a surprise to me how angry I became when entering the new Indian restaurant in Valbonne last week for...
I was asked to go to a fancy dress party. Now I am not usually a complainer, I am very placid and slow to anger, but fancy dress parties make me angry. Instead of going to the wardrobe and selecting ...
French Builders? I am not an angry man, certainly after the anger management courses and with the copious number of strong pharmaceuticals that keep me placid, but french builders make even me angry....
I am not by nature a complainer but I fail to see the entertainment value in those tiny dogs that seem to live in large women’s handbags, yes that’s what I meant, in the handbags of large...
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