Happy Bastille Day!

Today, we're both thrilled to be peasant (pretend) farmers and not part of the aristocracy pretend or otherwise!

All across France, there are celebrations and so not wishing to miss out, we started the day with one of the biggest "Vide-Grenier"'s (literally "emtpy attic" better known in the UK as car boot sales and in Cayman as yard sales), at Jumilhac-Le-Grande.  This is a lovely town not far from us with a real Rapunzel style castle.  An enormous amount of people show up every year to listen to the bands (photos above) and buy that thing they didn't know they needed but now can't live without!  There are some good traditional items (you never know who's looking for a thingymajig to fix his whatchamacallit - photo of a potential treasure trove of thingymajigs below) but sadly, there are also piles and piles of rubbish as you can see from the pile of dead barbies also pictured below!

After deciding we had ample thingymajigs to fix all our whatchamacallits (but I did find a lovely shirt for EUR1 that I decided I couldn't live without!) we were heading home when we came upon a very interesting display on the side of the road - someone has obviously got as much time on their hands as we do and has decided that old wine barrels make excellent pigs - I couldn't resist asking Tony to pull over so that I could share the image....

Most of the towns around us are celebrating with music and fireworks - the only problem with it not getting dark until around 10.30 is that the party doesn't really get started until then - thankfully not getting up at 4.45am for our morning walk as was our custom in Cayman we may just make it up that late!! :)

On that note, I shall leave you with a "bon fete"!  We have dinner with the butcher, his wife and their 2 sons on Sunday to prepare for followed by our next lot of guests arriving on Tuesday and more weeds than I first thought to contend with in the veggie patch and although pleased the sun is shining again today - every sunny day we have simply means harder ground which means more work to do in order to remove the weeds...!