Supposed to be a rest day but I just cannot sit long enough to get rested.
I want a bracket to carry a bag on the back of my new to me mobility scooter so using some aluminium sheet from a scrap caravan I fashioned a template and took it over to Phillippe who has a one man metal bashing business. A French speaking Swiss he has been here for years.
He looked at the template and said is stainless steel ok and come back later.
Lunchtime got a phone call to come and collect the finished item. Just what I need and only a fiver. Special pensioner rate he says and it would normally be £40 for anybody else.
We used to have a French consul here {yes really] called Roger [ soft g and emphasis on last 2 letters].
We had lots of Breton trawlers coming in then and he was also often called on to read the riot act to badly behaved French school parties.
One lot got shocked into silence in the coop when one of the till persons shouted at them in very colloquial french. ie lots of swear words as they thought nobody would understand what they were saying.
