Breton Ambulance
We do things differently in Brittany…
As you can see from our local Ambulance service…
None of that silly saline solution for our IV drips!
We prefer the real stuff…
Works every time!
Archive for the Typically French Category
Niban – the new breed….
Xavier, one of my neighbours, was telling me about this theory his brother has….
That rural France is slowly but surely being over-run by a new breed…
The Nibans!
Ni urban, ni rural!
And you know what, I have to agree.
You Sexy Beast!
I spotted this in the Supermarket car park in Redon last Saturday…
And even though we were late…
I just had to spend 5 minutes…
To take a look.
Have you ever seen anything sexier?
I don’t believe it!
The Girlie pointed this one out to me….
Outside the supermarket in Redon…
One of those idiot cars…
Parked, as usual…
Where it shouldn’t have been!
Typically French!
I spotted it from across the street…
I had to look twice…
I watched it park…
The white van wasn’t even there!.
It just couldn’t be true what I was watching!
It must be difficult?
I suppose it must be difficult…
A nearly empty car park and the smallest car in the world…
Squeezing that MASSIVE car into a little parking space must be a real challenge for some?
The driver of this speed machine (who looked as fissed as a part at 8am) almost managed to take up only one parking space.
Almost… but not quite!
All the best
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Nice Go Faster Stripes…
Nice go-faster stripes, I thought to myself…
But then I saw what car they were attached to…
I suppose if any car need to go faster, it’s one of these…
I loved that sign in the window… “I’ve got the time because I’m retired.”
Perhaps I should have a sign in my window, saying… “But I’m not retired and I haven’t got the time to be stuck behind you poodling around doing 45 km per hour!”
We’ve got children!
This sign has recently appeared at the end of the lane…
I’m not really sure what it is trying to say…
1). Is it a menu?
Speciality of the house – Roast Children!
2). Is it a warning?
Wild children loose in the area; enter at your own risk. Do not pet the children – they have sharp teeth and they bite!
3). Is it a request?
Some families here have young children; please slow down!
I suppose it’ll be one of the three…
Never had Roast Children – wonder what it tastes like?
All the best
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A Proper Car….
And this, Ladies and Gentlemen (and family members who are otherwise described)…
Is what I call a proper car!
Separate chassis, subtle paint job….
What more could you want?
I have it on good authority that The Stig drives one of these….
When he gets bored with all those Porsches and Ferraris!
C’est la Rentrée!
All the best
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C’est la Rentrée!
All the best
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Two of them…..
Spotted in the car park last week…..
Two of them. parked side by side!
I didn’t get a look at the drivers but……
The cars were perfectly parked and there weren’t any dents or scratches on them?
Very strange and certainly not the usual state of affairs!.
Breaking News!
I suppose breaking news is more polite than breaking wind?
Now, try to stop staring at The Girlie and concentrate on the sign.
You see it….
No, not the stuff about the car driving into the river.
The important thing… Rennes drew with Lille!.
Brittany Hillbilly
Well, it’s finally happened…
I’ve become a Brittany Hillbilly!
I think that I was born to be one….
I just took my time getting round to being one!
Next thing you know, you be seeing me reading with my eyes closed!
Whoops, you already have!
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All the best
He’s at it again!
A few weeks ago I posted some pictures of a nutter (no other word for it) who had parked his car on the road when there were plenty of perfectly good parking spaces in a half empty car park.
See Is it just me? for more details!
This morning I was getting some chicken netting for the new arrivals and I heard a put-put sound getting louder.
I had a strange feeling that I’d heard that sound before…
… my bottom started puckering and my heart began to race.
My testicles shrivelled to the size of peanuts; “I’d be changing my underpants tonight”, I thought to myself!
Chic or Cheeky?
Either the emergency services in rural Brittany have got very Chic recently or….
…. the owner of this Mini Cooper can’t read?
I spotted this in Redon yesterday.
I suppose it makes a change from VSP drivers parking wherever they like?
At least the owners of this illegally parked car had the sense to buy something that could do a little bit more than 45 kilometres per hour!
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All the best
Is it just me?
I mean, I’m just a normal guy (well, normal might not be the optimum word but…) who doesn’t go looking for trouble!
So, why is it that wherever I go, there is some nutter (and I’m being generous here) in a bl**dy VSP (Vehicle Sans Permis) parking like a blooming maniac – just to annoy me?
This guy had the choice of the car park to use…..
…so why did he park in the one place that was going to annoy other shoppers?
Conspiracy Theory
I’m beginning to think that there is a conspiracy theory at work here.
Perhaps somewhere in Brittany there is a VSP owners club and the members take it in turn to park their cars (if you can call them that) where I am likely to come across them.
For example…..
I spotted this one today!
As you can see, the owner of this car (the smallest car in the world) isn’t happy with using one parking space.
No, he (or she) needs to take up two!
Are they doing it on purpose?
Just to wind me up?
Perhaps (and this does make a lot of sense, to me at least), the driver was so blind that he (or she) couldn’t see the white line!
Now, that makes me feel really comfortable !
