I was going to write a post about F***** Telecom. About how, when we arrived in this country and needed communication with the outside world (communication that could only be provided by F***** Telecom), everyone (EVERYONE) shook their heads and tutted and said: F***** Telecom - ******* arseholes (yes, American readers, there is an "r" in "ass"). The post would have been prompted by a loss of service last week that coincided with Boy's birthday and meant he couldn't speak to his grandparents. A loss of service following a bill dated the 4th, received on the 14th, to be paid by the 15th. A transparently criminal strategy for extorting a(nother) €10-euro late payment from us, that was met with knowing tuts and wry shakes of the head from my co-workers, while I said: F***** Telecom - ******* arseholes.
But I won't.
Instead, I will share with you the delightful news that The Daughter has gone into the free range egg business. She has bought three six-week-old Light Sussex hens who are now sharing the orchard/chicken run/orchid meadow with our own feathered flockers.
Is she doing this out of a sense of social responsibility or ethical obligation? Because she is inspired by all things écovallée? Because she has identified an egg-shaped gap in the local market?
No.
It's because she wants to buy a new game for her DS.
5 comments:
You go all the way to France and buy Sussex hens?
Madness . . . .
I won't tell you that Her Outdoors is after some Buff Sussex, then.
Oh, damn.
I think she probably has all the buff (triangular) sussex that she needs at the moment , . . . . :-P
Go, India!
Does the DS game involve breeding hens?
My nephew Kenz loves his new DS, especially the game that involves petting and feeding a kitten (which also sings the miaow song, but that's a whole other story). I had a 'but this goes up to 11' moment with him when I suggested he would get through less batteries and more satisfaction if he got a real kitten instead.
Just a question, though - do you have a solar charger for the DS? Or a wind-up mechanism? If not, you might want to wean her off the DS before you start to live off-grid . . . .
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