Plus ca change But........

Some things are very predictable, like the village summer market. Today is the first day of the market and we have just returned with our goodies. Its like going to meet old friends and is a good indicator of how our French has progressed - we're up to bantering now!!

On the other hand, as we are always saying, we never know what is going to happen next. Yesterday Yoda and I were off to say good morning to our neighbours and I suddenly noticed a beautiful bird on our patio. It turned out to be a Kingfisher which had unfortunately flown into our patio door. This does happen from time to time and we have learned that if we leave them they usually recover and fly off. However the Kingfisher continued to look very poorly and we put him in the cat basket in the barn. I tried to give him water with a pipette but to no avail. We expected him to have died over night but not so. John is just off to put him out of his suffering.

We have received some " feed back" that our postings had not been so regular lately. In an attempt to rectify the error of our ways we have been typing away like mad recently (which we hope you have noticed). However, I must warn you that we have a lot of socialising looming which usually means NO WORK. Nevertheless John has started on the second set of courtyard steps.

PS The bird began to flutter and show "more" signs of life when John went to him , so after much soul searching we decided to take him down to the river and let nature take its course.