French Deal

Lack of blog has been because I’ve been too busy living life. Yey.

Since the last post I have volunteered at the Laas Festival for four days – a superb event in the grounds of Chateau Laas. Every year the mayor, and village, celebrate Gaellic music and this year the focus was on the Pitlochry Pipe Band. So apart from cleaning the site wearing my rubber Marigolds (and French people don’t leave litter so that was easy); collecting entry tickets; helping to prevent drunken locals from falling down the hillside, I minded 17 Scots from Pitlochry area. A four day event and I had a great time. Can’t wait for next year.

Then I got stuck in to making costumes for the Sauveterre Spectacle. This is a two night event held every two years in the streets of Sauveterre. As a great community amateur event it involves a cast of more than 180, many changes of costumes, and includes 24 people dressed as pine trees. That meant sort of circular green capes, circular hooped green skirts and for some bizarre reason – green pointy hats. Those green pointy hats were hell to make and luckily my task was cut short with a visit to Glastonbury.

I spent six nights at Glastonbury and totally fell in love with White Lies – moody or what. Lady gaga was fab and Roots Manuver and Dizee Rascall were my other favourites. Of course there was Blur, Bruce, Tom, Tony and other big star names. Only sad thing was that I only took two pairs of socks which had to be worn under wellies at all times. So after six days and no shower, those socks were even hating each other.

So I will try and catch up a bit now. Decorating is out because of the heat; terrace is almost finished so I attach picture of me sitting on the almost finished empty terrace. Cows are enjoying the field and herons continue down to the river.

All in all, it’s a more than good life.

posted by French Deal @ 3:33 pm