Temporary site page and French lessons

If you go to www.much-malarkey-manor.co.uk now, you will find a temporary home page! Isn't it great? Of course, you can't go anywhere from it. As the sign says, construction is still under way (with apologies from the Lady of the Manor. 'That'll be me,' says Mrs Poo. 'Get back in your box,' says I.') But it's a start and will give you an idea of the style of the site.

Andy is worried about its lack of sophistication. Andre, on the other sparkly-gloved hand, isn't.

'It has its own in-house style,' says Andre. 'There will be nothing else like it on the whole internettlywebbly. Trust me. I have a pet chihuahua.'

I think this is true. And who wants to be like everyone else anyway? I want people to see the site and say, 'Aha! That's Much Malarkey Manor!' I want it to be recognisable, and original and different. In fact, I feel very inclined to explore making Much Malarkey Manor my trademark. Or copyrighting it. Or both. It'll be 'our brand'.

We've already decided that when we get our small holding it will be called Much Malarkey Manor.
'What if we get that place in Normandy French France that we like?' says Andy. 'We'll have to call it 'Le Manoir de Beaucoup Malarkey.'
'It doesn't quite have the same ring, does it?' I say.

Yesterday evening, I did an on-line test to discover how competent my French is. I did better than I thought I would, considering I did my 'O' level 27 years ago. I got a 'B' grade and my teacher was keen for me to carry on studying it at 'A' level, but I had other ideas at the time like leaving school and earning some money, so the 'A' level stayed on the shelf. But I've been toying with taking French evening classes. And the on-line test suggested I could go in somewhere around the top end of Level 2. This was most encouraging.

However, my new keeness pour la francais took a knock ce matin when I read the report in the Daily Mail about French people shouting at some British students who'd come down with swine flu on an exchange trip to 'Go back to your disease-ridden country.'

Excuse me, but what's to say they didn't catch swine flu en France? Disease-ridden country indeed! Pah! Et ptui!!

Anyway, this got my back up in true Daily Mail fashion so en ce moment je deteste toute la France.

So I might to advanced crotchet instead.