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Maybe ask the maire as he will probably the one who would make the final decision.

Requiems are designed to make you sleep!

Doing good, thank you Doudoune. In UK with Oiseau for a few days whilst daughter and grandson plus friends trash my house and terrify the dogs. Sensibly masked all round.

violent storm just starting here with heavy rain.

Big thunderstorm warnings late pm here. Otherwise baking.

Getting a bit warm, chaps. Tomorrow seems to be the peakish. Well done, nimteroony!

Exchanging that for north Wales is a bit extreme; it never gets much above 10C and rains 360 days a year. Phewww, and Welsh beer! Hellllll.

cool now, may just be spotting with rain. Nice.

Delightful here yesterday and today, so far.

it seems that the covid test which used to cost €54 is now to be free and can be administered by a much wider group of professionals: ( para 6 ) https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2020/07/25/coronavirus-en-france-la-circulation-du-virus-en-nette-augmentation-les-tests-rembourses-meme-sans-ordonnance_6047277_3244.html

Atta girl GG, right between the eyes! ALBF, lorry driver language should be minimized, perhaps?

Music to my ears, Noisette. I look forward to the weekend and the gite renters with dread!

yes, but how to hold our breaths for so long?? Guess I will have to find another hobby! Trouble is, every time one goes outside the garden one is reminded of the virus reality.

Great Bobo in a bucket, I do miss the Tour. It is as if my year has been totally smacked put of kilter.

Never heard of that, Kong. Sounds quite discusting.

Having been partly brought up in the land of the braai, I find barbecues Round here difficult to stomach. Firstly, the fires are all wrong as the wood used is seldom heated long enough until it is reduced to hot cinders which are suitable for cooking. Rather, the food is chucked on, into the flames until it is thoroughly burnt. Then, undercooked and with a thick layer of soot, it may or may not be eaten as it is too foul, though the dogs do well the next day. Whether the wood smoke and paraffin firelighters have poisoned the food and the eaters...... As to ingredients, what the supermarkets sell is foul, tough beef or pork, often enough on skewers with bits of old veggie, and orange sausages which can only have been excreted by a Dalek. Certainly, the ingredients are bone, gristle, chewed up rejects.... And the whole lot smells FOUL, disgusting, noxious, and even worse the smell drifts across to my garden, polluting the air and my lungs. Disgusting. The village is presently full of the blo ody things, surrounding my poor little island of peace. Please folks, do it elsewhere of do it properly, and think of your health!

Good news: the flycatcher in the old, unfinished martin’s nest above the spotlight is now sitting on her second clutch of eggs, having raised and flown a healthy brood first time, round.

I had a eureka moment in the night; I seem to remember that they will reimburse a substantial part of the bill if it is a leak from a pipe but not from an appliance. Best of luck anyway.

My experience is that the water companies will allow you one leak which is what this really is. Usually they will accept 75% of the cost of the leak. Talk to the maire as well, he/ she may have a solution or some ‘piston’.

This is France! What is interesting is the number of young people coming here and, strangely perhaps, a large sprinkling of home schoolers.

Well, there seems to be nothing left to sell in the village, any overhanging property having being sold. Young people coming in to replace the late blood. And almost every roof has been renewed, extensions being built, huts constructed, terraces bullt..... Ok, good, The village is a better place. Now can I have a bit of peace.

Great Bobo in a bucket, all those ALBFs. Far too many for the health of the planet. Must rake in the family allowances and pay b ugger all tax! Get your pipes tied, man!

Perhaps you could bring it back to life, Norman!

Oooh, a newbie, welcome.

Under covid circumstances I guess it is a trade off between convenience and safety. I’ll always take the latter.