We've decided to emigrate!
Two main reasons:
- Chris's gin bottle is nearly empty and we have some friends who are in France at present who say they have a bottle, especially for Chris on her birthday.
- The snow conditions here are awful and where our friends are they are excellent.
- Mike's made the breakfast for the last 41 years and he likes to have the odd break and let Scot, the Cordon Bleu chef make the porridge, not to mention homemade cakes, and gourmet dinners.
So, we're off tomorrow, Sunday April 19th.
Mike
PS: It is only temporary; Chris is emigrating again on April 30th, to Paxos in Greece; I don't really know why, they don't specialise in gin and the snow there is crappy too!
PPS. Mike is applying to be an immigrant to the UK before he emigrates. There are lots of reasons:
First: Where would we go to?
France is the nearest, but the last few times he's been there this year it's been expensive, and full of English people. If you get away from the English people you have the problem of the French!
There's always Germany, but as Mike hasn't forgiven them for bombing our fish and chip shop in 1944, I can hardly go there, so it's stay in the UK. because he would like to:
- Be near his mates
- Continue to have the quality newspapers, Daily Telegraph and the Times delivered every morning
- Watch real live cricket
- Be able to go to events, for example lectures at the two Universities in Leicester
- Keep in touch with ex-colleagues from his working days as a guest at conferences
- Be near several airports that offer cheap flights
- Be within 70 minutes of London by train
- Use the free buses and some trains in the UK
- Enjoy the ethnic diversity of Leicester, especially the restaurants
- Try to get a par on the first hole at Scraptoft Golf Club
So, after all the emigration might be temporary, but don't drink the gin yet, we'll be there while it lasts.
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