Les sapeurs-pompiers

So the fire brigade story goes like this....
M&A arrive back at 8 Rue de Nantilly to discover a very strong smell of smoke and quickly locate it as coming from the garage. Bravely Michael dons the guise of un pompier and opens the rear door to the garage to be met by billowing dense smoke with the heavy characterisitc of kippers. Driven back by the smoke, tears already streaming down his face he has to retire to the backyard. After a fwe minutes the smoke has settles and Michael once more makes a foray and this time returns with a smoldering bucket. The bucket that contained the ash and embers cleared form the fireplace that morning by the fire-lackey!
Depositing the bucket in the backyard they duse it with water and leave it to damp down. The garage smells like a kipper factory and they leave the door open to help reduce the odour. A couple of days on and their is still a disitinct aroma of kippers about the garage and everyhting in it!
The fire lackey has been sent on a retraining programme.

 On our trip out to Marans we also had a short stroll in a pleasnat village called Courcon that had a striking church; worth a closer look on a warmer day.