If you thought a day couldn't get any more exciting you'd be wrong.
Down by the river the firemen are practising their water rescue techniques. There are perhaps a dozen of them there. None of them seems particularly keen on talking to Sophie. Certainly none of them offers to share their breakfast. Sophie leaves disappointed. As we go a convoy of fifteen or so vehicles towing Zodiacs and with blue lights flashing arrives. There is no reason for them to have their blue lights flashing but it certainly adds drama to their arrival. The firemen are clearly going to have quite a day on the river.
The croissants at the good bakers still not improving . Perhaps they really have changed hands ?
On our way home I stop to fill up with petrol. E1.88 a litre when I filled up the big car yesterday. E2:21 when I go in with the dog car this morning. That's inflation with a sledge hammer.
The cafe offering two menus. The E7:50 option is sauteed pork in mustard. The 'table service ' menu at E14:90 offers a choice of salmon, guinea fowl or bavette with a dessert. At lunchtime cafes like this are solid with customers. No French workman will miss a mid day cooked meal.
On our way home I stop to fill up with petrol. E1.88 a litre when I filled up the big car yesterday. E2:21 when I go in with the dog car this morning. That's inflation with a sledge hammer.
6 comments:
We could all, right now, cope with a day of Sophie-style excitement. But what a relief that the midday cooked meal us still, in France, sacrosanct. Latterly in my career I did much work with Total, by then the only company where one could guarantee a proper hot meal halfway through an all day meeting. I wonder if their West of Shetland 'Glendronach' gas discovery, in 2020 deemed too small and expensive to develop, is now being rethought?
I would think small fields like old and depleted wells may have a new lease of life.
Today's first photo of Sophie would make rather a nice painting - something about the clarity of each strand of fur makes it interesting. Not that Sophie and her antics aren't always foremost in our minds.
A fire practise - what more excitement could Sophie (and her master) want to start another day in France profonde?
That is an exorbitant hike in petrol in 24 hours. What will it be by this time next week if it goes up that much in a day!
I also liked that first photo of Sophie today - very satisfied with dripping beard. Firemen seem to be the same everywhere. In the town where I grew up, they would parade the fire trucks around town for "practice" every Monday night. Thank you for your advice of yesterday - three months' worth of Royal Canin arrived today, and it seems it was the last three packages they had in stock. It's amazing how all the "critical" things I need to stock up on seem to be for the animals - in addition to the French dog food, we have parrot food from America, bird vitamins from Germany and so on and so on. At least the fish food is domestic.
Hari OM
...does the fire service know something local residents don't...? Yes, my groceries did something similar. The annoying thing is that existing stock, which was bought and paid for by the store already, has been price-hiked. That's profiteering raising its ugly head, methinks... YAM xx
Such a civilized tradition of the mid day break for a real meal. Most of my life it has been grab a sandwich and work while eating. I have fond memories of stopping for lunch at small town cafes and bars when traveling in France.
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