Where are All Those Uppity French?

I forgot to tell you about this amusing vignette from dinner last night.

The British couple told us that they are amazed at how friendly all the French people they've met here have been to them. They've owned a cottage in Wales for the past twenty years, which they just sold because they didn't like the development that was going up in the field next to them.

They said that in all those twenty years, they found their Welsh neighbors, and fellow countrymen to be very unfriendly.

The British wife said that she was talking to a French nurse and asked the woman if it bothered her that the foreigners were buying up all the houses and land. The woman cheerfully replied, "Not at all. They are protecting our patrimony by fixing up the houses."