Life goes on

Loss of our rabbit notwithstanding, we party on - to Jim Hankinsons birthday party in the mountains somewhere. Long drive dictated by a baffled GPS. Worth the trip - beautiful in itself (the weather has turned and its misty and drizzly, quite lovely after the heat of the past weeks) and of course the sun shone when we arrived at Jims :) His house is beautiful and his village ditto and we got on brilliantly with his friends and neighbours. The communes' old mayor knew Esperaza and said that in the hat-making days it was a centre of freemasonry; interesting news . Didn't know that.

One party a day is enough so we skipped the Fete du Vin at the square last night which by all accounts was a success though reports on the band varied. A few friends hated them whilst saying it could have been worse but others said they were fit for purpose.
Market this morning very pleasent, slight drizzle but still packed and a pleasure with the air being fresh, as they say -