A day of strong winds and scudding clouds. PON ears fly in the breeze.
The perfect day for a high speed triple circuit of the garden.
The absence of all cakes at the bakers signals that his wife has returned home with the latest addition to the family. The bakers monosyllabic welcome suggests that the new arrival has not given them a quiet and peaceful night.
Strawberries in the greengrocers. The growing season moving into top gear.
The council workmen have been busy in the village. The powers that be have insisted that disabled parking be installed outside the village hall and outside the church. The mayors claim that anyone could park on the grass and that we don't have a parking problem is ignored. It has also been stipulated that a wheel chair ramp be built from the new parking area by the graveyard to the church door. The fact the church is only used once a year is also treated with official disdain. That is how 18,000 euros of the budget ( ex architects fees ) is quickly dispensed with.
On our morning walk Angus observes that the parking spaces on the village green are very small. It would have to be a tiny car ( or cars ) that squeezed into them. Bob christens the new parking sign.
Just another Friday morning in a French village of 67 souls where nothing ever happens
11 comments:
Love the windswept PON ears!
Hari OM
I am guessing the 'plenty parking' will still be availed by those in the know. As long as council doesn't get notions of 'restrictions = fines'... Autumn taking a hold down under; 19'C and biting cold wind. Strong enough to blow a PON ear or four. YAM xx
The baker's cake display gave me a good chortle. You're killing me with those cases of ciflorette strawberries. I would take them over chocolate any day. My strawberries (garriguettes, still good but not as heavenly as ciflorettes) have their first blossoms.
Re parking: we are getting an entirely new mairie because of handicap accessibility. The council room, also used for weddings, is on the second floor in the current building. They installed a chair lift for going up the stairs, but that doesn't cut it. Rather than build a new school (the school is now spread over three buildings, about six blocks apart) and taking one of the ground-floor classrooms in the mairie building for a council room, the child-hating mayor is building a new town hall. I do agree that accessibility is difficult in France. I pushed my parents in wheelchairs for several years and there aren't enough handicapped parking places and the smallest bump can be very hard for a wheelchair to surmount.
I love Bob and Sophie's ears and windswept fur patterns! So much better than the airport bright orange wind sock which I still remember first seeing at Wellington Airport in the '70s to show the airline what the wind was doing.
It does look windy at the farm.
Just when we thought the bakers couldn't get any worse - it has fallen to an all time low.
Couldn't get any lower.
The baker could remove the cake plate!
The PONS look as if they could audition for Dumbo. Those aerodynamic ears.
The state government has told our city we can have another bridge.....the infighting has been going on for over a year and continues.
Very late comment. Be sure to check out Roger Cohen's op-ed piece on Brexit in today's NY Times. The Scottish comedian's view of the proceedings perfectly describes what I think many of us in the States were confused by no matter how often we read the UK papers or listened to the BBC. Here's hoping there's another referendum,"Remain" wins, and the discussion is closed. Although these days nothing seems to come to a close.
Thanks for the heads up. It was in the weekend international edition. Having won through an unholy combination of partial truths , outright lies and carefully dispensed Russian money the leavers are unlikely to welcome a 2nd referendum.
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