Dull today, stuck indoors waiting for yet another delivery although i have hung a sign on the gate "Hoot, please, we are at the bottom of the garden.
Re yesterday's kefuffle, the seller has apologised profusely although it isn't their fault and are offering to refund the transport cost with some sort of code?
It's only €6.95 so we're not that bothered, especially if we do eventually get it. It is more the wasted time. Once I pick it up and get to look at how the address was written or printed out, I'll have more of an idea, but nice of them to offer.
Went to the "producers market" in Mazamet last evening. Great fun, saw some old friends, and were introduced to new ones. Some came a long way which shows it really is a fun event. Bought our usual "caillé" made from ewe's milk, we've never been able to find it elsewhere. Bought some wine and had a small meal, very convivial.
Not a terrific pic as it doesn't show the scale well. (I didn't take it it's off their website)
But the stalls go down both sides of the "place" and off to the sides of that, as do the tables and benches.
Met the mayor again, as he shook my hand he joked and said "we seem inseparable". He is very skilled at pressing the flesh at being "there" at all the right times but he does get stuff done, he's put the place on the map and is 1000 times better than the previous lazy git! At one time we feared that it would go the way many one industry places go once the industry has died its natural death. But instead he has created an aerial walkway from the town to the medieval village and doe stuff to get it on mainstream TV so tourism is booming relatively and people are buying houses, very quickly. A couple who bought recently in our village did it in an afternoon, which is meteoric in French terms!
Have a nice day folks.
