No Mystery

All this week is/has been the Jazz festival at Souillac with jazz in the streets every day.  Yesterday we went with some friends to 'promenade' following one of the bands, 'Le Mistère des Eléphants', a group of eccentric jazz musicians who give a good performance.

As they all carry their own instruments they are always on the move

Fortunately it wasn't too hot and so we watched and then followed for more than an hour, strolling through the old parts of Souillac. 

At the conclusion of their set it seemed an opportune moment for a sit down and a beer before we then found the next band set up in the old market place, Karima and Olivier.

They were joined by a drummer and bass player and we enjoyed some cool jazz with Brazilian influences.
There are concerts every evening but these daytime performances are all free!

We returned home for a few glasses of wine and dinner and our friends left about 9 o'clock.  I subsequently checked the emails and found our neighbours had sent us some photos.  It seems that during the afternoon, our garden had been visited by a sheep!!!

We went to find our neighbours, who were performing the nightly ritual of watering the plants.  Nadine explained that she had been on their terrace, had heard some funny clip-clopping and looked out to see a sheep walking down the road from over the hill.  It wasn't interested in the bread she tried to give it ... hopefully it hadn't eaten too many of Sue's plants!  It seems that the sheep had then started off towards the village followed by a van coming down the hill.  The driver said that it belonged to his father and it had been 'lost' since the day before.  He was on his way to the Recycling Centre and would pick it up on his way back.

You never know what you will find in the garden!