Having just fished out the interview with Andre Massat the Mayor of Varen I remembered one of my embarrassing incidents with him years ago ( believe me I have had many )
Anneke a Dutch resident of Varen at that time organised music festivals in the Church. After one of these events she invited everyone who had helped back to her house for aperos. When Malc and I arrived everyone had gone through to the second room for nibbles and the poor Mayor was left standing all on his own at the door. I thought as everyone was speaking English he must be feeling left out. I being a soft hearted fool felt sorry for the man and so stayed chatting to him in my faltering French. People in the orchestra kept arriving and being greeted by the Mayor and then they moved on to me kissing me and shaking my hand, people are so polite. When everyone had arrived the by then scowling Mayor said his goodbyes and left. I went into the "nibbles" room and was asked " where has your husband gone?" I said "look he's there" pointing at Malc. The lady said "but you are the Mayors wife" All evening everyone asked me where my husband the Mayor was, and for ages afterwards the Mayor hid if he saw me coming!
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