On a train, biting my tongue...

[Dayvo]

Monday morning Nobber, bet he's had a crap weekend.

Find out where he lives and make sure he has an even worse weekend next week.

 

[mjr]

I've got the spanners but could easily mislay them

I'm not sure @Brandane was hoping to be mislaid...

 

[classic33]

Thanks I was just taking a mouthful of hot tea, my nose hurts now

Bad aim?

 

[stephec]

I'm not sure @Brandane was hoping to be mislaid...

He probably wouldn't mind Pat misleading him though.

 

[midlife]

I'd have launched into some lines from Hello Hello . Good moaning, I was pissing by the wondow etc

Shaun

 

[Brandane]

Saw my old French teacher a while back.
She asked what I was doing these days.
I told her that I go to the cinema on Saturdays, and that I play football with my brother on Sundays.
I also pointed out that Mme Marsaud is in the garden, and that the cat is eating the chicken.

I found myself having to refrain from calling my new found friend "Madame Bertillon", asking if she had children called Philippe and Marie-Claire; and a husband who is a customs officer at Orly airport. (Did everyone at school in the 70's use the same French course?).

spanners not tool.

I was choosing my words carefully to try and avoid the inevitable .

 

[subaqua]

I found myself having to refrain from calling my new found friend "Madame Bertillon", asking if she had children called Philippe and Marie-Claire; and a husband who is a customs officer at Orly airport. (Did everyone at school in the 70's use the same French course?).



I was choosing my words carefully to try and avoid the inevitable .

Fat chance of the second , and as for the first it was still going strong in the 80s

 

[mybike]

A sensible train company would look at the market, listen to genuine customer feedback, slash prices, and put a guard/guard's van on. They'd be the most popular train company around, and make a squillion pounds, I reckon.

I may be completely ignorant of the economics of trains, however. But I had a dream....

They'd tell you that it isn't in their contract and they wouldn't get paid to do it.

 

[Hill Wimp]

I found myself having to refrain from calling my new found friend "Madame Bertillon", asking if she had children called Philippe and Marie-Claire; and a husband who is a customs officer at Orly airport. (Did everyone at school in the 70's use the same French course?).



I was choosing my words carefully to try and avoid the inevitable .

Don't forget her youngest daughter Claudette .

"Répétez après le bip!"

 

[Brandane]

Don't forget her youngest daughter Claudette .

"Répétez après le bip!"

Weren't the names Philippe, Marie-CLAUDE (not Claire), and Alain? Google may have helped me out here as I couldn't remember Claudette! The text book was "Le Francais d'aujordhui" with accompanying slides or film clips. It got me one of my two "A" grades at O-level . A French teacher with a penchant for rapping your knuckles with a ruler if you got anything wrong may have helped too.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Weren't the names Philippe, Marie-CLAUDE (not Claire), and Alain? Google may have helped me out here as I couldn't remember Claudette! The text book was "Le Francais d'aujordhui" with accompanying slides or film clips.

We had the slide and the audio version and this was the book we used on the South Coast in the late 70s early 80s


View: https://youtu.be/dYcyIE57aIQ

 

[Fnaar]

I found myself having to refrain from calling my new found friend "Madame Bertillon", asking if she had children called Philippe and Marie-Claire; and a husband who is a customs officer at Orly airport. (Did everyone at school in the 70's use the same French course?).



I was choosing my words carefully to try and avoid the inevitable .

No,I had Longman Audio-Visual French, with la famille Marsaud. Kids were Jean-Paul and Claudette.
I seem to remember the cat eating the chicken* one memorable day.

*Not a euphemism, it was a roast chicken 'sur la table' while Mme Marsaud was in the garden (or possibly in the bedroom with the insurance man, my memory is not what it used to be

 

[midlife]

Weren't the names Philippe, Marie-CLAUDE (not Claire), and Alain? Google may have helped me out here as I couldn't remember Claudette! The text book was "Le Francais d'aujordhui" with accompanying slides or film clips. It got me one of my two "A" grades at O-level . A French teacher with a penchant for rapping your knuckles with a ruler if you got anything wrong may have helped too.

I managed a "U" at O level French, now that takes hard work

Shaun

 

[Hill Wimp]

I seem to remember something about their dog and a lawn mower. I think in my interpretation it wasn't pretty.

 

[Brandane]

I managed a "U" at O level French, now that takes hard work

Shaun

Even Del Boy Trotter would have managed a "D". Bonnet de douche!