A muggy start to the day. A tongue of hot air storming up from the Sahara covers everything in a fine layer of sand. This morning our sand refracting sunrise is an implausibly deep salmon red.
The big market town ( if 30,000 counts as big ) is preparing for its Festival of Prunes. As we settle down for our morning croissant the PONs notice workmen unloading a truckload of concrete bollards. The bollards are painted a garish prune purple and will be used to close off the main roads. The festival will climax with the crowning of Miss Prune 2019. This is a more sophisticated title than our local market town ( population 1100 ) which ends its festivities with the award of the Miss Nut trophy. There was a discussion in the local press as to whether there should be two titles Miss Hazelnut and Miss Walnut but it was decided that one Miss Nut title was more prestigious.
Angus pops in to the grocery store to buy some ice cream. He finds a French brand he's not seen before. A fortune could be made by someone shipping the product off to the US. It would be a spring break marketing classic.
Mirabelles in the greengrocers. We buy a kilo for a crumble.
Angus goes to buy a new shower attachment to replace the one that squirted water all over the walls during the dogs bathing experience. The hardware store has a 'growing floral wall' in pride of place in the fabulous bathrooms section. There can only be a limited audience for this level of chicness in our quiet corner of deepest, deepest France profonde. The floral wall has a very long list of do's and don'ts attached to it.
8 comments:
Hari OM
Quite the work of art, that! Not so sure about the ice cream. YAM xx
Not sure which title would be worse, Miss Nut or Miss Prune....
A friend gave me 6kgs of mirabelles. I made jam with half, froze some for later in the year and gave some away. I'll be giving away the jam as well. It's always useful when you want to say " thank you" to someone. Perhaps Miss Mirabelle would have been a more attractive title.
The perfect ice cream to be served in Parliament today.
Somehow, winning the title of either Miss Prune or Miss Nut, doesn't instil too much confidence when added to a CV!
Ah, Agen, friend of many a nursing home resident.
I am impressed that the "little" market town has only 1,100 inhabitants.
Caramel anything seems to be very à la mode, especially for ice cream.
Looks like some really delicious ice cream for those hot days. Great photos of you both in the morning. Thanks for the share. Have a wonderful rest of your day.
World of Animals
One wonders at the addition of Miss Nut to a CV. Hope the prune festival has brought in enough port-a-loos.
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