hi, fellow listers, Yes its true , about the only thing that was of real concern to me was that Norris had already prepared a message to this seller in brilliant fluent written french and coming from my email this Frenchman reckoned that i wrote la belle francais as good as monsieur Norris,school french and my huegenot ancestery were called to book , seller giving it high dixie about where was this Englishman and when would he be calling to collect le velo, Norris was travelling late sat & all sunday so I couldn't raise him on his cell and tried to text him and was successful i hoped? but Norris couldn't access his texts ! which contained the guys cell and landline tel numbers, so in desparation i wrote to him at Sancerre ON MONDAY, YET MORE EMAILS!! this was getting on for four days after the sat auction finish, at last Norris contacted me, having had the letter, and i thought it was sorted, but was it?? more bloody emails where is he ?? in Absolute desparation i rang Norris about this and NOW you know the rest ,i asked for good feedback which he duly gave. my accounts are not as colorful [nor my language as bad] or as nice to read as Norris's, to my deep regret, he should write a book, ''searching for frissons dans la belle france'', and that Lejuene i have is real good ,they know a thing or three the Frenchmen. willie carton from a cold bright sunny Coleraine just back in from a 10 mile t.t. N.IRELAND
--- Norris Lockley
<norris@norrislockley.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:
> many thanks for the messages off-List about the
> little tale I recently
> spun .To my mind if we can mix our love of old bikes
> with a bit of
> foreign travel, our lives become richer.
>
> However, as I have been reminded, I cannot let this
> moment go without
> paying a deep debt of gratitude to "my agent in
> Ireland" who did the
> Ebay bidding for me..and held the fort magnificently
> in the face of
> numerous emails directed to him in French....while
> in the meanwhile I
> delighted in the bucolic splendour of the Loire and
> Saone valleys. I can
> well imagine the unvoiced yet deeply felt Gallic
> expletives....
>
> The rich point that I missed out in my narrative was
> the point where,
> having just,,really only just entered the sellers
> garage..less than
> thirty seconds I reckon..the mobile phone harboured
> in my jacket pocket
> started to ring furiuosly.
>
> Not a man lost for words .. well did you ever meet
> up with an Irishman
> lost for words ....my Irish agent started bellowing
> at .." where the ...
> are you? I cant keep this French guy off my.....
> email intray... he's
> boiling over...wants to know if you are for real?"
>
> " Willie.." I replied "..a second..!" With that I
> turned to the seller
> to whom up to that point I had only addressed the
> single word
> "Bonjour"..and asked him "Parlez-vous Anglais,
> peut-etre,
> Monsieur?"..wondering if he had managed to hear the
> choice terms of
> abuse being hurled down that phone line. "Non" came
> the reply. "It's OK
> Willie, fire away..I'm actually in the guy's garage,
> he's standing just
> a couple of feet away but he's none the wiser about
> what you're
> saying...And..Oh by the way..it is a
> Sauvage-Lejeune.. yes and it is a
> 56cm ..just your size..and No! you can't have
> it..Thanks anyway"
>
> Willie is a member of the List.. and he won't feel
> too bad about this
> because he knows that last year I did get him a
> 56cms Lejeune Team
> Replica with almost full Campag equipment on it...a
> beauty in that
> special red.... But I'm still not convinced that
> the seller wasn't
> Hercule Poirot. Nobody could possibly have such a
> waxed moustache and
> not be a detective...Can you imagine talking to a
> CYCLIST who tweaks his
> long waxed moustache as he negotiates with you? Very
> inscrutable...pity
> about the monocle too!
>
> Now for the Rene Vietto machine..I think it's a late
> 30s Alcyon...
>
> Norris Lockley..Settle-sur-Loire..about 5kms from
> Seattle-sur-Loire
> ..where I hope to meet up with fellow List member
> Nelson Miller..and a
> rendezvous with one of the Monsieur BIGs of French
> Ebay..
>
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