Feast day

I'm back and by the skin of my teeth - there's a storm called CIARA in the north of England, where I was for my great-aunts' 100th birthday over the weekend. Got back to Esperaza by train from Liverpool to Manchester airport and Ryan air to Carcassonne - time and tension but we made it, unlike some of  the cousins who are still marooned. 

Realising that today is the feastday of Our Lady of Lourdes I went to the church to look at the grotto and sing allelujia there - here is the stained glass image above it.

Looked at the other windows, a mixed bunch but another two featured young women having visions - a product of their times and diet no doubt. 

Apartments have been built the other side of this window so its luminosity is somewhat curtailed

 There's a slight drizzle here, very pleasant after the driving rains and mega mph winds of blighty.

 Here is a connection to the facebook page for the 8a8....  no backwater this, right?

Though maybe it is. Plonkers have scratched into the stone surface of the ex-fountain outside of the ex-Cathar Gormande. It'll take a stone grinder to get it out, maybe a while with emery paper. Volunteers?