Our lovely Aussie visitors went over to Pete Churchill’s jam session at La Maison Verte yesterday, on their last night here, and were rewarded by listening to two of Britain’s finest jazz pianists (possibly the world’s) letting rip just for us. (Pete’s wife , Nikki Isles, is one of Britain’s best current jazz composers – they were both up for an award last year for ‘Best Jazz Educator of the Year’ – he won. But all in the family so who cares.) Who needs the Festival or Albert Hall when you have a Roujan. Ain’t life sweet? I still gasp at it all.
We’re screening the fabulous Australian movie ‘The Castle’ here at the Roujan Roxy (aka Le Couvent) on Wednesday night for his singing course. What will the new Americans arriving on Wednesday think of all this? Lord, lord, our Trip Advisor ratings may plummet – or soar. Who knows, C’est la vie. We shall find out.
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- Le Couvent - www.roujan.com
- Take me somewhere warm and friendly where I can stop - stop and stay for a while in a big, pumpkin-coloured room, a chambre d'hote where I don't have to wake up until noon. Does it exist? Come on, of course they do, hotels, houses to rent, chambres d'hotes in the south of France where I can check in for bed and breakfast and stay a few days and it's alright and I can get up at noon and smell the lavender and walk through the vineyards and dip my toes in the Mediterranean and, and I could lie on the beach and read. I could read French books, I know my French is rubbish but even I could read Agatha Christie in French, Something old-fashioned. Sort of Deauville or Provence. The tube jerks off. Outside the windows are dark curved walls with thickly-coated horizontal tube maps of wires moving by. Passing by slowly, I give you that, but definitely moving. "Thank God, not today then. Yes. No. Oh God. We've stopped again. Why don't they tell us what's happening. They do quite a lot now about all sorts of things. Not really important things of course. If they don't say anything it means it's bad. Or they're too busy I suppose. How busy? How bad? Okay, don't go there. Go back.
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