speed update

This morning;

the trimming of the trees by the station. Rather good news as the magpies will have to nest elsewhere, thereby not being so close to nesting birds, maybe. They are as bad as cats in the destruction of young songbirds plus they take unhatched eggs. Grr.
This was snapped en route to Quillan for the market there. Bought a new chess set :) Its handmade and the two teams are Rasta and Douanes. Or spiritual and capitalist, perhaps. Saw many friends and got up to speed with all the news which is either too innocuous to bother with or too libelous to print.

Last night; yeah, Phil is here :) Aileen, Ole-Bendick and Gracie joined the celebration. Fig and cheese tarts, fish pie and tarte tatin lots of which (not the fish) was home grown. I'm trying to eat up the freezer before the new crops arrive.

 A morning moon, yesterday? Day before? And a nice band of young men at the market on Sunday who everyone agreed were terribly good.

REMINDER* Today is the day the town hall recommend for putting out the traps for the Asian hornets. Ours is up. You can get yours FREE from the hotel de ville. Help protect our honey bees (who are eaten and used as incubators by the invaders.)