Extracting goats from Jean-Claude's kitchen : and other essential tips from seven years of musical and family life in rural France
Jones, Dan2019
Books, Manuscripts
Musician Dan Jones abandons a stable career in South Wales for family life in a sleepy French village. He battles technophobe fonctionnaires and The Speedo Police, yet shares his love of an environment where Health and Safety regulations support the school tradition of dangling fireworks into naked flames and where children are revered almost as much as red wine and offal. Having inadvertently acquired a petting zoo, he is driven to near-insanity by a goat and a rabbit. Dan exposes the macabre firefighters’ calendar, his village’s animatronic nativity scene and the glorious incompetence of The Hunt. Elderly neighbours teach la Famille Jones the wisdom of lunar gardening and septic tank management and Dan embraces the country practice of non-fatal mushroom gathering (as demonstrated by an eleven-year-old boy). En route, he learns when to kiss friends of all genders without attracting violent reproach, uncovers the hazards of wandering accent syndrome and reveals the folly of pretending to be French at boozy château weddings. Dan experiences the surreal world of European concert life and highlights how flippantly proposing to play at a French funeral can backfire.
Main title:
Author:
Jones, Dan, author
Imprint:
[Independently published], 2019
Collation:
326 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9781095150122
Local class:
914.45
Language:
English
BRN:
2619802