Visible progress with the new Centre Commercial for Marsilly

The car park is more or less ready

The shop units have windows - mostly

I do wonder if the local mayor owned the land that this big (relative to the size of the commune) development is being built on.
In the three and a half months since we last reported it is easy to see the progress and it looks to be about on schedule for a summer opening. Of course that means it has to be finished over the next two months as we are told that the french building trade goes on holiday for the whole of August. It would not surprise me.

It looks like the development may have caused its first "casualty" as the mini Co-op by the church has closed its doors for good. A sign says their last day was February 18th. To be honest our experience was that it hardly ever opened its doors and so perhaps its demise is separate from the prospect of a new "Superette" in the new CC.

In addition to the new shop / business premises about 100 homes are going up on the site and many are already complete and occupied. We have yet to have a real mouch about the whole site to really assess progress.

The large grey building in the centre back is a puzzle

As I write a Banana Loaf with rum and pecans is in the oven with about 30 minutes of baking to go. Does anyone know the difference between Pecans and Walnuts or are they just different names for the same nut. Are they nuts, perhaps they are seeds? I must google - watch this space for a report on how the baking works out.

Lots of work going on