Medieval Fete

We have had comments from some of our regular readers to point out that we have been a little tardy and not posted any blogs for a while. Well we haven't been doing anything very exciting. We didn't think that you would want to know that we have been continuing to collect manure every day, and after tomorrow's load we will have covered the two courtyard "potential" lawn areas ready to have the soil laid on top. No, John is not in hospital and infact he is still waiting to hear the result of his heart biopsy which was sent to another laboratory. He has more energy some days than others.

However yesterday was exciting. Some friends of ours are part of a team who are heavily involved in the renovation of a village chateau about ten minutes drive from us. The Mayor is very young and enthusiastic and was fully supportive when the village was asked to stage a medieval fete. They were all relieved when everything went off very well. All the villagers wore appropriate costumes and there were games and stalls throughout the ancient village.

In the evening we all congregated in the chateau grounds for a banquet. We were entertained throughout the evening/night (French "dos" never begin until it's time to go to bed) by a fantastic troop of muscians, actors and jugglers. The food, prepared and served by the village commitee was excellent and of course washed down with copious quantities of " medieval " alcohol.

We rolled home very happy and contented and just gave a tiny thought to those who were due to report at ten o'clock this morning for clearing up duties.