Flowers

Voila! Much-missed Pille, ex- of the bakery in Rue Victor Hugo and now happily in the bakery of Rennes-les-bains. She was buying flowers in the flower market of yesterday which was a tad underwhelming on account of the regularly intermittent rain :(
- And the prices were quite high, Bob said.

Before that we breakfasted at Luc's with Pete and Annie and made our farewells - though they are back soon for a fortnight -  and here below are the tribe dining at the creperie. Visible is Bobs back, Roland, new Kelly (gone blonde) petite moi, Hilary, Pat, Mike, Kats chair (she took the photo) Joels back and darling Gracies profile.

Gossip says that Anne de Joyeuse, our local wine makers, have laid off staff on account of the damage caused to the vines by the frost of last week. Catastrophic if true.

This mornings' walk lead to the mighty Aude where the vide grenier was getting started... I noticed the tent on the riverbank and couldn't help but wonder what the inhabitant would think, having gone to sleep in a quiet space to wake up and find the whole town in the road above him :)