A Heart Warming Story

John has just read a story in the local paper which we think bears retelling,

A young family with children aged 3 and 6 fairly recently moved from Paris to a village near Gourdon to make a new life for themselves in the country. They bought an old tobacco drying house and began to renovate it to make their home. Unfortunately the husband, aged 30, died of a heart attack.

The Mayor of the village co-ordinated a plan, together with a TV programme, to mobilise local tradesman to finish the work. 500 people turned up from far and wide with 26000 registering their offers of help on Facebook.

This is remeniscent, although on a larger scale, of the help our friends received when their house burnt down. The Mayor of this village said "we are all neighbours" which is exactly what people said to Sue and Mark. Incidently they continue to receive offers of help from unexpected quarters even though the builders are making progress with rebuilding their house.

We live in what are known as Communes, which are administered by an elected Mayor. It would seem that above all they are Communities.